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[fm-news] Newsletter for Saturday, November 13th 2004
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Computer Cloning with Partition Image
by Vlad Setchin (mailto:v_setchinyahoo.com.au)
Section: Tutorials
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:00
When you have over a hundred computers to install, you really start to
scratch your head and think that it would be nice not to do the same
installation a hundred times. When I faced this problem, I looked at
computer cloning as a solution. I did not want to spend big bucks on
commercial software like Norton Ghost. I know that some people might be
skeptical about using Open Source software, but I gave partimage a try and
found it to work very nicely.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1375/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (57) :::
[001] - alph 0.6
[002] - Astaro Security Linux 5.027 (Stable 5.x)
[003] - BashBurn 1.5.2 (Stable)
[004] - Clickatell SMS API 1.2
[005] - Cornfed SIP User Agent 0.4.9
[006] - dbacl 1.9
[007] - Directory Assistant 1.4
[008] - DOM Tooltip 0.7.0
[009] - drraw 2.1.1
[010] - Dstat 0.5.2
[011] - dvdisaster 0.51.1
[012] - ePointPGP 0.6
[013] - Estraier 1.2.25
[014] - EvilScribe 0.2.1
[015] - fairly fast packet filter 1.3.3
[016] - Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.12.5
[017] - flrec 0.6
[018] - GEOS 2.1.0
[019] - Gettext PO syntax highlighting for Vim 20041113
[020] - gggl 0.0.2
[021] - gURLChecker 0.8rc5 (Unstable)
[022] - Impostor 0.9.5
[023] - KDE LogViever 0.91
[024] - Klotski 1.1
[025] - KreetingKard 0.4.2
[026] - KShutDown 0.4.0
[027] - libextractor 0.3.11
[028] - Liferea 0.6.2
[029] - London Law 0.1.0
[030] - MEEP 1.0.0
[031] - Mini-XML 2.1
[032] - monotone 0.15
[033] - MoreAmp 0.1.5
[034] - mplay 0.72
[035] - Neopets Helper 1.9.1
[036] - NSS MySQL Library 1.3
[037] - nut 10.9
[038] - PHP Gift Registry 1.3.0
[039] - PhpWebGallery BSF_200411131708 (Development)
[040] - Pixory Beta 3.13
[041] - PRepS 2.0.0 (Stable)
[042] - QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.8.18
[043] - Radar For Radiator 1.5
[044] - rubrica 1.0.13 (Stable)
[045] - slashem 0.0.7E6F3 (Development)
[046] - SMTarPit 0.5.1
[047] - SpamProbe 1.1x4 (Experimental)
[048] - spamresponder 0.5
[049] - StringParser_BBCode 0.2
[050] - Terminal Emulator 0.1.10
[051] - The Density Web Environment 1-32
[052] - txt2tags 2.1
[053] - UPPAAL 20041109 (CORA)
[054] - Vamos Automotive Simulator 0.5.2
[055] - Vim Gentoo Syntax 20041113
[056] - Vuurmuur 0.5.55
[057] - XdTV 2.0.0
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[001] - alph 0.6
by Corcalciuc V. Horia (http://freshmeat.net/users/SevenRains/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:39
Artistic Software
Communications
Communications :: BBS
About: alph implements and analyzes historical and traditional ciphers and
codes, such as polyalphabetic, susbstitutional, and mixed employing
human-reconstructable algorithms. It provides a pipe filter interface in
order to encrypt and decrypt block text to acheive transparency. The
program is meant to be used in conjunction with external programs that
transfer data, resulting in transparent encryption or decryption of
information. The program can thus be used as a mail filter, IRC filter, IM
filter, and so on.
Changes: This release removes the libpopt dependency and implements its
own command line options handling.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alph/
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[002] - Astaro Security Linux 5.027 (Stable 5.x)
by astaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/astaro/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:26
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway
that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful
packet inspection, deep packet filtering, application-level intrusion
detection, content filtering, virus detection for email traffic (SMTP and
POP3) and Web traffic (HTTP), whitelists and blacklists, IPSec and PPTP
VPN tunneling, spam blocking, logging and reporting. The software is built
on an embedded, especially hardened Linux distribution. The WebAdmin tool
and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update all six
security applications.
Changes: This Up2Date added a new kernel with a lot of bugfixes and extra
e100/e1000 drivers with NAPI support. It fixed problems with dynamic
packet filter rules not working correctly, with the IP address of HA
slaves always being 0.0.0.0, and with some Web sites not being accessible
over PPTP. Issues with Spam Score being visible in the body of an email
and the PPTP server giving out version information were fixed.
License: Free For Home Use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/
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[003] - BashBurn 1.5.2 (Stable)
by Anders Lindén (http://freshmeat.net/users/connyosis/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:25
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: BashBurn (Previously Magma) is a bash script designed to make CD
burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio
CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
Changes: This version fixes a small bug in the audio menu.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashburn/
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[004] - Clickatell SMS API 1.2
by Miki (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikikg/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:39
Communications :: Telephony
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: This class allows users to send SMS messages via the Clickatell
gateway. It provides support to authenticate to this service and query
for the current account balance.
Changes: This version adds CURL proxy support.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsapi/
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[005] - Cornfed SIP User Agent 0.4.9
by FWMiller (http://freshmeat.net/users/fwmiller/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:18
Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech
About: The Cornfed SIP User Agent is a Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP)-based Softphone for your x86 Linux systems. It allows you to make
Internet phone calls using an Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) or
Open Sound System (OSS) sound card with speakers and microphone as your
telephone handset.
Changes: A CLI argument was added to all the specifications of the local
IP address to be used by the client. The polling loop was replaced with
use of select() calls on various file descriptors. This change appears to
help with quality of sound playback. The ability to filter logging based
on level was added (see the log command in CLI for details). Additional
RTP statistics tracking was added to the CLI. Bugs where ACKs and CSeq
increments were not handled correctly when authentication is required was
fixed.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornfedsipua/
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[006] - dbacl 1.9
by Laird Breyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/garch1/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:27
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Text Processing :: Filters
About: dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it
calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any
number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort
incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or
simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully
supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical
models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
Changes: This release added a new MAP confidence score (-U, to complement
the -X switch), some new scoring types in mailinspect, and a new parsing
switch for trace headers in email (-T email:theaders). Category learning
now accepts directory names as well as file names, and preliminary work on
a new header mining tool (hmine) was performed. Category files are now
written in 'portable' format by default.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbacl/
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[007] - Directory Assistant 1.4
by Olivier (http://freshmeat.net/users/olivier/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 06:00
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: Directory Assistant is an application for managing an LDAP address
book. The focus is to create a very easy to use program, with only the few
but necessary features. The target is novice users that still need to keep
their addresses in an LDAP server.
Changes: Several minor features have been added, the DN is now renamed if
the name is changed, and no more duplicate results will show up for names
that match both the organization and the person.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/directoryassistant/
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[008] - DOM Tooltip 0.7.0
by Dan Allen (http://freshmeat.net/users/mojavelinux/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:19
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: DOM Tooltip allows developers to add customized tooltips to Web
pages. The tooltips are controlled through style class definitions and
respond to events such as "mouseover", and avoids possible collisions with
form elements such as select boxes and screen edges. While originally
designed to create context tooltips, it is also possible to create a wide
variety of dynamic layers, such as embedded windows, context menus, and
hidden blocks. Additional features include sticky tips, tooltip fading,
lifetime, relative positioning, class assignments, width adjustments,
mouse dragging, captions, directionality, offset adjustments, adjustable
activate/deactivate delay times, snapping to grid, fate adjustment (hide
or destroy), and references to created tips. It supports
Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5.5+, IE on Mac, Safari, Konqueror, and Opera 7.
Changes: Support was added for the Mac browsers, Safari and IE. Detection
of standards compliance mode now allows for screen offsets to be
calculated correctly regardless of DOCTYPE definition. Several
long-standing bugs and JavaScript errors were corrected.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/domtt/
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[009] - drraw 2.1.1
by Christophe Kalt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kalt/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:26
About: drraw is a simple Web-based presentation front-end for RRDtool
that allows you to interactively build graphs of your own design. A graph
definition can be turned into a template which may be applied to many
Round Robin Database files. Unlike most other RRDtool front-ends, drraw
does not take care of collecting data and updating Round Robin database
files. Instead, it specializes in providing an easy means of displaying
collected data, making it a great complement to other RRDtool front-
ends.
Changes: This version only includes bugfixes.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drraw/
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[010] - Dstat 0.5.2
by dag (http://freshmeat.net/users/dag/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:29
System :: Diagnostics
System :: Monitoring
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, and ifstat. It
overcomes some of the limitations of these tools and adds some extra
features. It allows you to view all of your system resources instantly;
you can, for example, compare disk usage in combination with interrupts
from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers
directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval).
Changes: Improved disk and net discovery functions, a code cleanup,
documentation, and tweaks to avoid exceeding the screen width.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dstat/
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[011] - dvdisaster 0.51.1
by Carsten Gnörlich (http://freshmeat.net/users/cgnoerlich/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 07:34
System :: Archiving
Utilities
About: dvdisaster provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and
DVD media caused by scratches or aging media. It creates error correction
data which is used to recover unreadable sectors if the disc becomes
damaged at a later time.
Changes: This release fixes a bug under Windows XP: Previous versions
failed to read the image file when Cygwin was not installed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvdisaster/
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[012] - ePointPGP 0.6
by Daniel Nagy (http://freshmeat.net/users/nagydani/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:25
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: Version 4 signatures now work properly, and experimental key
generation code was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epointpgp/
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[013] - Estraier 1.2.25
by Mikio Hirabayashi (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikio/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:12
Text Processing :: Indexing
About: Estraier is a full-text search system for personal use. Its
principal purpose is to realize a full-text search system for a Web site.
It functions similarly to Google, but for a personal Web site or sites in
an intranet. It has fast searching, conspicuous results, relational
document search, the ability to handle Japanese text, and support for
handling a large number of documents. Installation is easy.
Changes: The search server was enhanced. The logging format was changed.
Accuracy of document clustering was improved. The building configuration
was enhanced, and now Mac OS X 10.3 is supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/estraier/
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[014] - EvilScribe 0.2.1
by Samuel J. Greear (http://freshmeat.net/users/dragonk/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:53
Utilities
About: EvilScribe is an ECU ROM editor for first-generation DSMs,
including the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, Plymouth Laser, and the
Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. It currently supports the editing of fuel and
timing tables, fuel injector compensation, changes to idle speed and
rev-limit, as well as changes to the fuel cut value and mass air flow
(MAF) compensation.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/evilscribe/
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[015] - fairly fast packet filter 1.3.3
by Willem de Bruijn (http://freshmeat.net/users/wdebruij/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 06:02
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: The fairly fast packet filter (FFPF) is an approach to network
packet processing that adds many new features to existing filtering
solutions like BPF. It is designed for high speed by pushing
computationally intensive tasks to the kernel or even network processors
and by minimising packet copying. By providing both a richer programming
language and explicit extensibility, it is also considerably more
flexible than existing approaches. It provides a complete solution for
network monitoring that caters to all applications available today. Using
its extensibility, the language can even be used as a meta- filter to
"script" together filters from other approaches, such as BPF.
Changes: The last release lacked the kernelspace makefile. That file has
been reinserted from CVS. The build no longer fails on machines due to
"atomic.h" includes from userspace. This only happened on machines with
older (2.4) kernel headers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ffpf/
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[016] - Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.12.5
by Markus Gaugusch (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgaugusch/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:23
Security
System :: Systems Administration
About: Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides
the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in
background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed
downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.
Changes: Support for SuSE 9.2 was added (only minor fixes necessary).
RPMs with a valid signature are now correctly installed without causing
an error message on SuSE 9.x.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fou4s/
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[017] - flrec 0.6
by accio (http://freshmeat.net/users/accio/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:56
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
About: Flrec is a simple audio hard-disk recorder written in FLTK. It can
directly record in WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and other formats. It uses sox as
its backend.
Changes: A launch button for an external mixer was added. Sample rate,
mode, and format are now automatically adapted on file opening.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flrec/
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[018] - GEOS 2.1.0
by Paul Ramsey (http://freshmeat.net/users/PWRamsey/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:52
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GEOS is a complete C++ implementation of the functions and
predicates defined in the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL"
specification. It includes high quality implementations of all the
important spatial relationships and operations, robust versions of all
functions in the dimensionally extended 9 intersection predicate model,
implementations of the operators, Buffer(), Union(), and Intersection(),
and all other SFSQL functions including Area(), Length(), Centroid(),
etc.
Changes: Polygonizer and LineMerge classes were added. There were minor
bugfixes and fixes for memory leaks. The distribution now includes Python
SWIG support previously only available through CVS.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geos/
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[019] - Gettext PO syntax highlighting for Vim 20041113
by Dwayne Bailey (http://freshmeat.net/users/dwaynebailey/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:24
Software Development :: Localization
Text Editors
About: The Gettext PO format is used by translators to translate free
software. The Vim Gettext PO syntax highlighter enhances the current Vim
PO file highlighter. These enhancements include the inclusion of
KDE-specific highlighting, error detection, and highlighting of new
features of the PO format, including pluralisation.
Changes: msguniq and msgcat conflicts are now highlighted correctly even
if the #-#-#-#-# is split over two lines.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gettext_po/
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[020] - gggl 0.0.2
by Řyvind Kolĺs (http://freshmeat.net/users/pippin/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 01:40
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Gggl is a graph-based image processing library for interconnecting
operations (ops) shared objects. Gggl strives to provide a clean and
simple API both for plug-in development and hosting applications. The
library supports high bitdepth images and automatic conversions of pixel
representations.
Changes: A crash that occured when trying to instantiate unknown ops was
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gggl/
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[021] - gURLChecker 0.8rc5 (Unstable)
by Emmanuel Saracco (http://freshmeat.net/users/esaracco/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:48
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking
About: gURLChecker is a graphical Web link checker. It can work on a whole
site, a single local page, or a browser bookmarks file.
Changes: The project's URL was added in the "About" dialog. A "Prompt for
authentication" option was added in preferences. A "Do not display
anymore" option was added in the authentication dialog. Some fixes were
made to the history list of GNOME entries. "uc_utils_split_email ()" was
updated to be more restrictive.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gurlchecker/
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[022] - Impostor 0.9.5
by vitezg (http://freshmeat.net/users/vitezg/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 14:00
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Impostor makes writing Web applications easier. It saves the whole
internal state of your applications. It does so by starting a new instance
of your application for every new session, instead of starting a new one
for every request. Impostor works with the Python programming language and
the Apache 2.x Web server.
Changes: Browser back button press detection was added. The documentation
on Quixote PTL integration was rewritten. Initial support for Debian
package building was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/impostor/
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[023] - KDE LogViever 0.91
by cmorgner (http://freshmeat.net/users/cmorgner/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 10:56
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
About: LogViewer is a logfile monitoring tool for KDE 3.2.x that docks
into the panel. It supports multiple colors, up to 10 logfiles, filtering
via regular expressions, and pop-up events when a specific line is added
to a monitored logfile. Systray icon and docking are supported.
Changes: Support for systray icon and docking was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logviewer/
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[024] - Klotski 1.1
by Philippe Fremy (http://freshmeat.net/users/pfremy/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:26
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Games/Entertainment
About: Klotski is a brick game where you try to bring the main piece to
its destination by moving other pieces around. A brain-teaser.
Changes: This version features bugfixes and a port to PyQt3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/klotski/
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[025] - KreetingKard 0.4.2
by UTUMI Hirosi (http://freshmeat.net/users/gggh2004/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:31
Text Processing
Text Processing :: General
About: KreetingKard is a tool for making greeting cards. It allows you to
make greeting cards easily by choosing a template and changing the words.
Changes: Some templates were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kreetingkard/
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[026] - KShutDown 0.4.0
by kdt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdt/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 14:01
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: A "Cancel" button was added to the passive message. The
translations and documentation were updated. Small bugfixes and
improvements were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kshutdown/
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[027] - libextractor 0.3.11
by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:41
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 fixes various minor bugs in the DVI, man, ID3v2.3,
OLE2, and PDF extractors.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libextractor/
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[028] - Liferea 0.6.2
by Lars Lindner (http://freshmeat.net/users/llando/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:51
Communications
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
About: Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy to use, and easy to
install GNOME news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a number
of different feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS, and OPML.
Changes: This is a bugfix release to fix cookie handling, privileges when
saving the feed list, and to prevent the display of user/ password of feeds
that use HTTP authentication.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/liferea/
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[029] - London Law 0.1.0
by Paul Pelzl (http://freshmeat.net/users/pelzlpj/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:31
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: London Law is an online multi-player adaptation of the classic
Scotland Yard board game. One player controls the movements of the
criminal Mr. X as he tries to evade Scotland Yard, while another one to
five players control five detectives trying to track him down. It
features an attractive map overlaid on high-resolution satellite imagery.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/londonlaw/
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[030] - MEEP 1.0.0
by Samuli Kärkkäinen (http://freshmeat.net/users/sak/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 05:59
System :: Archiving :: Backup
Utilities
About: MEEP takes a "versioned" disk to disk backup. "Versioned" means
that in each backup, unchanged files are hardlinks to the previous backup
version, hence typically at least 90% space is saved. Source directories
can be anything accepted by rsync, and the target must be a local
filesystem directory. The word MEEP is an abbreviation of Mobile
Enterprise Enabled Professional backup, none of which MEEP is.
Changes: This release removes the rsync option --whole-file. As meep has
been used by a handful of people for over a year and no one has reported
problems, it has been promoted to stable status.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/meep/
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[031] - Mini-XML 2.1
by Michael Sweet (http://freshmeat.net/users/easysw/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:28
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read
XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large
non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler
(GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program. It
supports reading of UTF-8 and UTF-16 and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML
strings and files, and provides a hierarchical view of the file via a
linked-list tree structure of typed nodes and functions for managing,
traversing, indexing, and searching the tree.
Changes: This version adds support for custom data types and fixes a
number of small bugs.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mxml/
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[032] - monotone 0.15
by graydon (http://freshmeat.net/users/graydon/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:18
Software Development :: Version Control
About: monotone is a distributed version control system with a flat peer
model, cryptographic version naming, meta-data certificates, decentralized
authority, and overlapping branches. It works out of a transactional
version database stored in a regular file, and uses a custom network
protocol for efficient database synchronization.
Changes: The internal representation of history and changes was completely
rewritten. The tool now more closely resembles other competing distributed
version control systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/monotone/
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[033] - MoreAmp 0.1.5
by pmisteli (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmisteli/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:59
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
About: MoreAmp is an audio player that loads memory or a vdisk with many
songs so the hard disk can spin down while playing them (saving batteries
and reducing noise). It plays and makes ogg, flac, wav, aif, mp3, and aac
files and plays audio CDs and wma, mp1, mp2, m2a, and m4a files. It has an
easy-to use 31-band equalizer, separation, and a silent center channel.
Changes: Variable pitch, tempo, and speed effects were added. Credits for
SoundTouch (for the above effects) were added to the "About" dialog.
Buffer size in Vdisk mode may now be changed by 1 instead of by 16. Some
bugs were fixed. On-going code cleanup was done. The documentation was
updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/moreamp/
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[034] - mplay 0.72
by Romulus Pfeiffer (http://freshmeat.net/users/romuluspfeiffer/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:17
About: mplay is a console-based front-end for MPlayer. It plays most all
audio and video formats and features adjustable colors, a browsable
playlist, a progress bar, status information, and interactive help, and
remembers the position upon quitting.
Changes: Time and info of common video files are read. An equalizer, a new
context menu, a "repeat one track" function, and a new playlist for
bookmarks were added. Many improvements were also made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplay/
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[035] - Neopets Helper 1.9.1
by James Maddison (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuxjay/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:27
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Utilities
About: Neopets Helper is a program to control and maintain your neopets
account from the command line via a curses interface. Neopets Helper
currently supports a host of features that the neopets site offers,
including playing games to earn you lots of neopoints. It is also possible
to find the cheapest items to buy, feed/bless yours pets, and many other
activities.
Changes: Massive improvements were made to the quality of the code. The
new authentication system was cracked. Files are now stored in a user's
own configuration directory.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/neohelper/
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[036] - NSS MySQL Library 1.3
by Cinergi (http://freshmeat.net/users/cinergi/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:26
Database
Security
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The NSS MySQL Library provides MySQL authentication for Unix
systems with NSS, so that Unix accounts can be stored in a MySQL database
instead of /etc/passwd. Its biggest highlight is extremely flexible
database design. It is also fully thread- and fork-safe.
Changes: A random thread deadlock bug has been fixed. Upon program exit,
the MySQL connection is closed (to avoid warnings) and the password is
purged. Multiline configuration is now possible. Multiple references to
the search key may now be made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libnss-mysql/
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[037] - nut 10.9
by Jim Jozwiak (http://freshmeat.net/users/jozwiak/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:39
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.
About: nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your
meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 17, which contains 6,839 foods and
128 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential
polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed
as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling
in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added
from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Changes: This release contains a fix for wrong calories-per-gram values
when the program starts because it read a float as an integer from the
options file.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nut/
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[038] - PHP Gift Registry 1.3.0
by Ryan Walberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/generalpf/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:30
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: PHP Gift Registry is a a Web-enabled database that allows members
to keep track of the gifts they'd like to receive and see what items
other members would like to receive. Private reservations ensure gifts
are not bought twice.
Changes: An events system and the long-awaited configuration system were
added, meaning no more approve/deny for shopping and new users. Many
bugfixes and changes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpgiftreg/
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[039] - PhpWebGallery BSF_200411131708 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 11:58
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: PhpWebGallery is an image gallery with a very simple installation
interface and administration panel. It features free or restricted access,
user management, groups, access management for each category, multi-server
support (to store your pictures on another Web site), user comments, HTML
templates, virtual categories, and multilingual support (English, French,
German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, Spanish, Danish, Swedish,
Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Czech).
Changes: Development services are now hosted on Gna. CVS and a mailing
list are available. A new way of setting category options like commentable
and uploadable was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebgallery/
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[040] - Pixory Beta 3.13
by joe panico (http://freshmeat.net/users/pixory/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:27
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
About: Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your
photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share
them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through
which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data
is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF
information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners.
Changes: This release fixes bugs introduced in last release, including a
StackOverflowError when the JVM default locale was de_DE, an error when
logging out from the App Server, and random 'x's that appeared in some of
the labels on the ViewerHome page.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pixory/
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[041] - PRepS 2.0.0 (Stable)
by Ken Sodemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/stuffle/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:37
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
About: PRepS is a problem reporting and tracking system similar to Gnats,
only simpler to use. Currently, PRepS is best used with smaller projects
or projects where all developers have access to the same network. For more
"remote" projects, Gnats may be a better choice.
Changes: The user interface was completely updated to use the newer GTK
2.x widgets. The database creation and upgrade scripts are now included
in a Gnome Druid application.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/preps/
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[042] - QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.8.18
by Mikio Hirabayashi (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikio/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:08
Database
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Indexing
About: QDBM is an embedded database library compatible with GDBM and
NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed
referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher
processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Changes: The utility API, the extended advanced API, and the inverted API
were enhanced.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qdbm/
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[043] - Radar For Radiator 1.5
by Mike McCauley (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikemccauley/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:27
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: Radar is a real-time, interactive graphical tool for monitoring
Radiator Radius servers. It features monitoring of multiple remote
Radiators, graphing, statistics, error and event logging, log viewing,
radiator configuration viewing and modification, and alerts for
significant events. Radar runs under Unix and Windows platforms.
Changes: Improvements were made so that stringarray and splitstringarray
types can be displayed.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radarforradiator/
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[044] - rubrica 1.0.13 (Stable)
by Nicola Fragale (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolafragale/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 07:37
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business
About: rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows
you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email
addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact
works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to
store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to
HTML.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rubrica/
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[045] - slashem 0.0.7E6F3 (Development)
by J. Ali Harlow (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaharlow/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 07:36
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a
variant of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more
monsters, more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races,
shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible objects
and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK windowing
interface and higher resolution tile sets as options.
Changes: The problem with monsters breeding without constraint has been
addressed. A number of crashes have been fixed. There have been a few
crash reports received against version 0.0.7E6F2 which could possibly be
explained by the bugs fixed in this version. Numerous less serious bugs
have also been fixed.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slashem/
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[046] - SMTarPit 0.5.1
by Paul Grosse (http://freshmeat.net/users/paulgrosse/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:30
Communications :: Email
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: SMTarPit is a chrooted SMTP honeypot/tarpit. It attempts to
determine whether it is a person or a machine on the other (cracker) end
and adjusts itself accordingly.
Changes: This release uses a static table to make sure that the randomly
chosen server identity is consistent between calls - varying it could
lead to consistency checking in order to determine whether a site runs a
tarpit or a normal MTA. Also, it has the configuration option of whether
you want the detailed log or not. Not doing so means that you just have
the small log to go on. It also records the remote IP address in both the
quick and normal log files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtarpit/
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[047] - SpamProbe 1.1x4 (Experimental)
by Brian Burton (http://freshmeat.net/users/bburton/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 10:49
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: SpamProbe is a spam detection program that uses a Bayesian analysis
of the frequencies of terms used in the email. Because it filters email
based on content rather than on general rules, it easily adapts itself to
the types of email that each individual user normally receives.
Changes: This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser
code. MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported. Database
cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.
License: Q Public License (QPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamprobe/
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[048] - spamresponder 0.5
by Stephan Schmieder (http://freshmeat.net/users/ssc_/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:03
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet
About: Spamresponder is a very simple and radical spam filter, combining
DNS validation with the challenge/response approach. It will go through
all mail messages in /var/mail/$USER, looking for specific "trusted"
strings in the header and body parts of the mail. It will delete and send
an automatic reply to messages which have no "trusted" strings inside
them. Those replies will include one of the "trusted" strings, so the
recipient just needs to reply to this confirmation message. The
MailFrom-address of an email containing a trusted string becomes a trusted
string itself.
Changes: DNS validation was implemented to minimize the amount of
confirmation messages, thus saving bandwidth and computing time. The FAQ,
README, and manpages were updated.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamresponder/
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[049] - StringParser_BBCode 0.2
by Christian Seiler (http://freshmeat.net/users/christian_seiler/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:14
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing :: Markup
About: StringParser_BBCode is a PHP class that parses BBCodes with a real
parser and not just regular expressions. This ensures that the HTML
elements are correctly nested. It does not define any special codes, but
allows the programmer to do so herself. It provides many features, such as
the automatic detection and handling of paragraphs and the ability to apply
different so-called parser functions to different portions of the text that
is to be parsed.
Changes: The class was completely rewritten by using a more sophisticated
parser to provide more features.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bbcode/
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[050] - Terminal Emulator 0.1.10
by bmeurer (http://freshmeat.net/users/bmeurer/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:31
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: XFCE
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
About: Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop,
primarly for the Xfce desktop environment. It was developed because Xfce
needed a lightweight and easy-to-use terminal emulator that didn't require
the user to install the GNOME libraries, but still provided a worthy
alternative to the GNOME terminal emulator, with all the bells and
whistles.
Changes: This release features fully customizable toolbars, a bunch of
new icons, support for different background image styles, and several
bugfixes. Besides that, the online documentation was updated and a
complete new installer is available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfceterminal/
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[051] - The Density Web Environment 1-32
by entropicaccess (http://freshmeat.net/users/entropicaccess/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:28
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Density provides a clean, powerful, object oriented environment
for developing Web applications in PHP. Designed to fill the gap between
large, powerful, tools like J2EE and lightweight tools that simply add a
little dynamic content to a page, it is geared towards writers of small
to medium sized Web applications.
Changes: This version added an embeddable interface that allows modules to
readily utilize functionality from other modules. An UploadedFile class
nicely abstracts the details of file uploads. Several method signatures
were changed to use references. The Administration module was redesigned
to allow for easier installation of modules using a packaging tool. The
Persister's class generation tool was reworked in far more modular
fashion. A PostgreSQL backend was added for Persister's class generation
tool.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/density/
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[052] - txt2tags 2.1
by Aurélio Marinho Jargas (http://freshmeat.net/users/verde666/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:26
Other/Nonlisted Topic
About: txt2tags is a format conversion tool written in Python that
generates HTML, SGML, LaTeX, man page, MoinMoin, Magic Point, and
PageMaker documents from a plain text file with little marks. Different
from other conversion tools, it is generic, and not target-specific (as a
txt2html tool). This way, you can keep just one source text file and one
tool for all your formatting needs.
Changes: This release adds new macros (%%toc, %%mtime, %%infile,
%%outfile), the new --quiet option, and important code fixes and
improvements. The User Guide was revamped with new chapters and the
program was translated to Hungarian and Italian.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/txt2tags/
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[053] - UPPAAL 20041109 (CORA)
by Gerd Behrmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/behrmann/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 06:01
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing
About: UPPAAL is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation,
and verification of real time systems, modeled as networks of timed
automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.).
Typical application areas include real time controllers and
communication protocols, in particular those where timing aspects are
critical.
Changes: The biggest changes are the addition of a GUI and a new name for
the branch, but the verification engine has received performance
enhancements and bugfixes, too.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppaal/
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[054] - Vamos Automotive Simulator 0.5.2
by Sam Varner (http://freshmeat.net/users/snickadoo/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:24
Games/Entertainment :: Simulation
About: Vamos is an automotive simulation framework with an emphasis on
thorough physical modeling and good C++ design. A real-time, first-person,
3D driving application is included.
Changes: Support for multiple independent cars was added. Project files
were added and minor code changes were made for compilation with Visual
C++. Windows binaries are now available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vamos/
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[055] - Vim Gentoo Syntax 20041113
by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 13:43
About: Vim Gentoo Syntax includes syntax highlighting and filetype
settings for Gentoo things (ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs, init scripts,
package.* files, etc.) for the Vim text editor.
Changes: Major changes include GLEP 31 (UTF-8) support, extended error
highlighting for bad functions, support for many extra keywords, and
ongoing maintenance to keep up with portage changes.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentoo-syntax/
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[056] - Vuurmuur 0.5.55
by Victor Julien (http://freshmeat.net/users/Victor78/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 22:25
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Vuurmuur is a middle-end and front-end for netfilter and iptables
that is aimed at system administrators who need a decent firewall, but
don't have netfilter specific knowledge. It converts human-readable rules
into an iptables ruleset (or optional a bash script), makes netfiler logs
readable, includes an ncurses GUI.
Changes: A bug that caused errors on reloading, with 'logpolicy' switched
off, was fixed. The speed of reloading was improved. There were various
cleanups and fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vuurmuur/
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[057] - XdTV 2.0.0
by Pingus77 (http://freshmeat.net/users/Pingus77/)
Sat, Nov 13th 2004 12:30
About: XdTV is software that allows you to watch TV. It interacts with
AleVT for Teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView. It uses the video4linux API.
It can use deinterlacing filters and record video files with the ffmpeg,
xvid, and divx codecs.
Changes: Xawdecode was renamed to "XdTV". Better C code was written in
relation to audio and video drivers. Overlay support for *BSD systems was
added. Generic management of video format conversion was implemented to
improve hardware compatibility. This is also interesting for recording.
Optimized and uniform management for audio and video filters was added.
The Xaw GUI is now finished. A default skin was added. A different
subtitle page for each channel is now possible. The xdtv_scan.sh script
updated to allow channels from the old RC file to be restored into the new
one.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdtv/
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