Newsletter for Saturday, December 01st 2007

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2007/12/01/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (35) :::

[001] - AceUnit 0.3 
[002] - Antares Project 0.0.4 (Mashed Potato)
[003] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2007-12-01 
[004] - Bazaar Subversion Plugin 0.4.5 
[005] - C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library 0.7 
[006] - CacheGuard OS 5.2.7 
[007] - cego 2.0.3 
[008] - clive 0.3.4 
[009] - Config::General 2.37 
[010] - DBDesigner 4 Scaffold Tools for CakePHP 1.0.4 
[011] - dbmstools 0.4.4 
[012] - Detect Library 0.9.82 
[013] - e-SoftEasy Business Analytics 1.5 
[014] - Ecere SDK 0.41.17.10 (Development)
[015] - Editra 0.2.29 
[016] - Elastix 0.9-Chinese (User Manual)
[017] - FCKeditor 2.5 
[018] - FreeJ 0.9.1 (Stable)
[019] - Geneious 3.5.5 
[020] - GeoTools 2.4.0-rc0 (Development)
[021] - getsnmp 0.4 
[022] - Gnome-sshman 0.6 
[023] - Graidle 0.5 
[024] - GWintree 0.9.8-9 
[025] - Immix 1.2 
[026] - KildClient 2.6.0 
[027] - konqil.icio.us 2.0 
[028] - LON-CAPA 2.5.99.0 (Release Candidates)
[029] - Quick Look 1.0.2 
[030] - RegexKit 0.5.0 
[031] - Seismic ToolKit 0.56 
[032] - typespeed 0.6.4 
[033] - Veritar 0.1.0 
[034] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.6 
[035] - Zumastor 0.4 (Stable)


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[001] - AceUnit 0.3 
  by Christian Hujer (http://freshmeat.net/users/christianhujer/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 12:46

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) is a comfortable C code unit
test framework. AceUnit is in the style of JUnit 4.x, and is easy, modular,
and flexible. AceUnit can be used in resource constraint environments such
as embedded software development. 

Changes: AceUnit now copmiles with Visual Studio or gcc with -pedantic
-Wall -std=c89. The feature to warn if no test cases are found was
implemented. Fixed The bug in which the fixture elements caused linker
conflicts if there was more than one fixture was fixed. The generator now
generates header files recursively and only if they changed. A_IgnoreR is
no longer supported. Loggers can now be configured with conditional
copmilation. Exception handling for C was added. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[002] - Antares Project 0.0.4 (Mashed Potato)
  by Phillip Jacobs (http://freshmeat.net/users/phillyqueso/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:34

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Antares is a PHP 5 framework intended to provide a community
network allowing developers to publish, rate, and grow code up the Antares
ladder. The main idea is reusability, agility, and standards-compliant
non-intrusive development.

Changes: The primary index file was updated to comply with Control class
graduation. The home module was updated to comply with the Control class
graduation. The Dom and Dom_Element classes were graduated from the API to
the framework. The control module was graduated to the API, which is now
known as the Control class. The "select" method was added to the dom_html
class. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antares-project/

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[003] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2007-12-01 
  by Terry Burton (http://freshmeat.net/users/terryburton/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:54

Information Management
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business

About: Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many
barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of
converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the
printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement the barcode
generation process whenever your language needs change. The project
supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E,
ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2
of 5, and Codabar.

Changes: Support was added for the textxalign and textyalign options,
which give greater control of the formatting and positioning of human
readable text. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[004] - Bazaar Subversion Plugin 0.4.5 
  by Jelmer Vernooij (http://freshmeat.net/users/jelmervernooij/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:53

Software Development :: Version Control
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: Bazaar Subversion Plugin is a Bazaar plugin that adds support for
foreign Subversion repositories. This allows committing changes to
Subversion branches as if they were native Bazaar branches.

Changes: Compatibility with Bazaar 1.0 has been fixed. A new revision
specifier for Subversion revision numbers has been added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library 0.7 
  by Davi de Castro Reis (http://freshmeat.net/users/davi/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:48



About: C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library is a portable LGPL library to
create and to work with minimal perfect hashing functions. The library
encapsulates the newest and more efficient algorithms available in the
literature in an easy-to-use, production-quality, fast API. The library is
designed to work with big entries that cannot fit in the main memory. It
has been used successfully for constructing minimal perfect hashing
functions for sets with billions of keys.

Changes: This version added man pages and a pkgconfig file.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[006] - CacheGuard OS 5.2.7 
  by Afshin Tajvidi (http://freshmeat.net/users/tajflow/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 12:38

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

About: CacheGuard is a Linux-based OS/appliance dedicated to Web traffic
security and optimization. It transforms an x86-based machine into a
powerful Web gateway appliance. It allows you to control Web traffic for
Web surfers and Web servers by acting as a forwarding and reverse HTTP /
HTTPS proxy. It supports HTTP transparent implementation, HTTP
compression, Web caching, URL black- and whitelist guarding, and Web
server load balancing. It features a stateful firewall with NAT and PAT,
and a content filtering module blocking malicious HTTP requests like XSS,
SQL and Command Injection. It integrates a caching DNS, a DHCP server, a
bandwidth shaper to manage the QoS, a load sharing system, and an HA (high
availability) mode with VRRP and link bonding. 

Changes: The number of parallel connections from peers is not restricted.
Peers are considered to be trusted parties that do not generate flooding
traffic. The free trial version for more than 10 users has been limited to
15 days. When the trial period is about to end, the "apply" command no
longer applies a new configuration unless a valid license key is
installed. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[007] - cego 2.0.3 
  by lemke (http://freshmeat.net/users/lemke/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 12:42

Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Database :: Front-Ends

About: Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with
support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most
common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval.
Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented.
Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept
with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.

Changes: Small fixes were made for some update, insert, and select
queries. Descending ordering for select queries was added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - clive 0.3.4 
  by legatvs (http://freshmeat.net/users/legatvs/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 12:41



About: clive is a command line tool for extracting videos from the
YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba (free), and Stage6 Web sites.

Changes: This release adds a GUI for configuration and history browsing.
Some minor bugs and tweaks were also addressed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - Config::General 2.37 
  by Tom (http://freshmeat.net/users/zarahg/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:35

Software Development :: Libraries

About: With Config::General you can read and write config files and access
the parsed contents from a hash structure. The format of config files
supported by Config::General is inspired by the Apache config format (and
is 100% compatible with Apache configs). It also supports some
enhancements such as here-documents, C-style comments, and multiline
options. 

Changes: The variable interpolation code has been rewritten. This fixes
two bugs. More checks were added for invalid structures. More tests for
variable interpolation were added to "make test". 

License: Artistic License

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

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[010] - DBDesigner 4 Scaffold Tools for CakePHP 1.0.4 
  by Uldérico (http://freshmeat.net/users/dericofilho/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:31

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: DBDesigner 4 Scaffold Tools for CakePHP, or simply 
dbdesigner2cake, is a tool that parses fabFORCE's  DBDesigner 4 XML file
into CakePHP models and  controllers files. It aims to simplify the first
two steps in any system development, modelling and model coding.

Changes: The --core parameter was added to specify a non-standard location
in which to look for CakePHP core files. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbdesigner2cake/

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[011] - dbmstools 0.4.4 
  by John Dickson (http://freshmeat.net/users/captsens/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:50

Database
Database :: Front-Ends

About: The dbmstools module exists mainly for developers who need to
support applications on more than one database management system (DBMS).
It's intended to allow all the database information (schema and base data)
to be kept in one single place, and to have DBMS-specific scripts (for
creating and populating the database schema, and upgrading from one
version to the next) generated from that data. It can generate schema
documentation for any DBMS (including diagrams), and can export data from
a database in several formats. It also has wrappers for several tools so
that they can be run from within Apache Ant. It supports PostgreSQL 7 and
8, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and Hypersonic (limited support).

Changes: The major change is support for runtime variables. This allows
generation of schema variants based on any conditions you choose, and
insertion of variables in documentation for any element. Other changes
include explicit support for column defaults and auto-increment columns,
'tiny' and 'boolean' data types, as well as sequences on the Hypersonic
DBMS. MySQL support has been improved, particularly in generating upgrade
scripts with deltaddl. There were also small bugfixes and improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Detect Library 0.9.82 
  by futility (http://freshmeat.net/users/hylius/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:25

Software Development :: Libraries

About: Detect Library can be used in any program that needs to perform
hardware detection. Its API (in C) is very easy to learn and use. It can
detect many devices like bridges, CPUs, network cards, floppy drives, ISDN
cards, parallel ports, printers, scanners, and tapes on many busses like
PCMCIA, PCI, USB, and SCSI. 

Changes: This version was synchronized with the latest Mandriva tables.
The superprobe code was removed. CPU handling was improved. Many fixes
were made for i18n, CPU, and memory detection bugs. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[013] - e-SoftEasy Business Analytics 1.5 
  by e-SoftEasy Business Analytics
(http://freshmeat.net/users/esfrud2007/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:22

Database

About: e-SoftEasy Business Analytics is a stand alone, ad-hoc query and
reporting tool which connects to any database server. It can create
reports, charts, and dashboards in PDF or HTML format from multiple
database servers. It supports Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, and
more. It lets you filter, sort, and group your data in any way by writing
SQL queries. It can create master reports, design powerful ad hoc reports,
and easily show all your data in a Web browser. 

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/e-softeasybusinessanalytics/

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[014] - Ecere SDK 0.41.17.10 (Development)
  by Jerome St-Louis (http://freshmeat.net/users/jerstlouis/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:51

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The Ecere SDK is a cross-platform toolkit for building software
applications. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (through
X11). With the Ecere SDK, you can develop applications once and deploy
them on all supported platforms alongside a lightweight runtime
environment. It introduces eC, an object oriented language derived from
and fully compatible with C, compromising neither runtime performance nor
ease of use. A built-in 3D engine supporting both Direct3D and OpenGL is
fully integrated. 

Changes: Mac OS X is now supported (through X11). Windows can now be
closed through the window manager. Repositioning windows from the window
manager doesn't confuse their positions anymore. 15-bit and 16-bit
displays are now supported. 

License: Freeware

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

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[015] - Editra 0.2.29 
  by Cody Precord (http://freshmeat.net/users/cprecord/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:56

Text Editors

About: Editra is a general, extensible, multi-platform text editor with an
implementation that focuses on creating a clean and easy-to-use interface
with features that aid in code development. Currently, it supports syntax
highlighting and variety of other useful features for more than 50
programing languages. 

Changes: This release contains a number of important bugfixes and and
improvements to existing features. Most notable are the major improvements
to Python autocompletion. Editra is now able to provide auto-completion
tips for most situations, including the local scope. It is still not
perfect however so may not be able to provide tips under certain
conditions but it is still a major enhancement over the previous system.
wxPython is included in the distribution.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[016] - Elastix 0.9-Chinese (User Manual)
  by PaloSanto Solutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/palosanto/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:17

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Elastix is a software appliance that integrates the best tools
available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface. It
also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third
party modules. The goals of Elastix are reliability, modularity, and
ease-of-use. It also features strong reporting capabilities. 

License: Freeware

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

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[017] - FCKeditor 2.5 
  by Frederico Caldeira Knabben (http://freshmeat.net/users/FredCK/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:46

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Text Editors
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion,
PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful
functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight,
and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.

Changes: This release introduces Safari and Opera compatibility and a new
style system. You now have full control over every single formatting and
semantic command available in the editor interface. It also features a
revamped undo system and blockquote support.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[018] - FreeJ 0.9.1 (Stable)
  by jaromil @ RASTASOFT (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaromil/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:20

Artistic Software
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia

About: FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video
manipulation used in the fields of dance and theater performance,
veejaying, medical visualization, and TV. With FreeJ, multiple layers can
be filtered through effect chains and then mixed together. The supported
layer inputs are images, movies, live cameras, particle generators, text
scrollers, and more. The resulting video mix can be shown on multiple and
remote screens, encoded into a movie, and streamed live to the Internet.
FreeJ can be controlled locally or remotely from multiple places at the
same time, using a slick console interface. It can be automated via
JavaScript and operated via MIDI and joystick. 

Changes: Fixes include a new video encoder backend based on the
ffmpeg2theora utilities and a new parameter system for the scripting and
console interface. Scripting now implements inheritance of objects and
outputs precise debugging messages. Some new frei0r generators are
included along with the BeTV script. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Geneious 3.5.5 
  by yogi (http://freshmeat.net/users/yogibear/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:52

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for
manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as
linear and circular DNA sequences, proteins, phylogenies, chromatograms,
3D structure information, publications, etc. It features sequence
alignment and phylogenetic analysis, restriction analysis, contig
assembly, access to biological databases at NCBI and elsewhere (PubMed,
Nucleotide, PopSet, SNP, Structure, PFAM, etc.), BLAST, and more. It
includes an API for creating your own plugins.

Changes: Geneious now also runs on Solaris 10. A small number of plugins
require an x86 processor in order to run under Solaris.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[020] - GeoTools 2.4.0-rc0 (Development)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 04:05

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

About: GeoTools is a GIS toolkit that is used for OGC-based projects via
GeoAPI interfaces. It includes two great SLD based renderers and tools for
raster access and reprojection as well as plugins for Shapefile, ArcGrid,
ArcSDE, Postgis, OracleSpatial, MySQL, and many more.

Changes: A JDBC driver was added in the Geometryless module. Documentation
was added. Support for using LRULinkedHashMap for building pools in the
Referencing module was added. Support for Postgis database connection
parameters was added. The CQL Parser was extended to allow functions as
right arguments on comparison predicates. JAI was added as "provided"
dependencies on gt2 modules. The ability to use estimated extents was
added. GMLFilterGeometry was modified to keep track of the SRS. A
strReplace function was added and many bugs were fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[021] - getsnmp 0.4 
  by Thierry FOURNIER (http://freshmeat.net/users/fourniert/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:09

System :: Monitoring

About: getsnmp is a scheduler for collecting SNMP values from any network
equipment and storing these values in an rrdtool database.

Changes: An OpenBSD port was added. Data files are rotated. A global data
filename prefix can be added. The number of OIDs requested in one SNMP
packet was limited. A segfault which occurred when the configuration is
parsed if DNS resolution failed was fixed. An unsigned int is used in file
values. The program doesn't quit in an error case. A warning is generated
when parsing the configuration file. Documentation was written. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - Gnome-sshman 0.6 
  by Ear3ndil (http://freshmeat.net/users/Ear3ndil/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:50

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet

About: Gnome-sshman is an SSH session manager for GNOME. It is easy and
fast to use, and is useful for system administrators that need to connect
to many SSH servers. Gnome-sshman saves ssh sessions and allows you to
open a saved session with a double click in nautilus. 

Changes: The "open sessions folder" button was removed, so nautilus is now
an optional dependency. A session information tool was added to view
session data and attach notes to an ssh session. Telnet support was added.
A warning is given if you are closing a session with opened tabs. A
preferences window was added to change colors, fonts, and set other
default options. Gconf support was added. Two bugs were corrected: a
cypher module bug with the hwrandom module and a bug with GNOME 2.20
nautilus in background mode. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - Graidle 0.5 
  by Alessio Glorioso (http://freshmeat.net/users/aleglori/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 12:15

Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Graidle (Graph aid) is a Web application for creating charts. It
can be used to generate several types of graphical diagrams. It has
several classes which specialize in generating histograms (horizontal),
spider graphs, pie charts, and line (filled) charts. Several presentation
aspects may be configured, such as the colors, fonts, dimensions, labels,
and axes. The diagrams are generated as true color images using PHP and GD
library functions, and can be displayed as the current script output or
saved to a file in the PNG format.

Changes: The code was optimized. Legend position on top and bottom was
introduced. The setFontMono() function was added to support monospace
fonts. Other new functions include setFontSmallSize($size),
setFontBigSize($size), setFontLegSize($size), setLegMaxLen($len), and
setFontLegend($fontleg,$size=8). The setFont($font,$size=8) and
setFontBD($fontbd,$size=8) functions were modified. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - GWintree 0.9.8-9 
  by David J. Cooke (http://freshmeat.net/users/djcooke/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 04:08



About: GWintree is a GEDCOM-based genealogy program. It provides
facilities to view, edit, and merge data, and to produce charts, family
trees, and reports in a range of formats, including HTML. Charts can show
all relatives, ancestors only, or descendants only. HTML charts allow you
to click on a person in your HTML report to see where they are on the
chart. Automatic matching and merging of data between files is supported. 

Changes: This version adds the facility to save family trees to Shockwave
Flash format with dynamic mouseover scrolling, making large charts easier
to view in Web browsers.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[025] - Immix 1.2 
  by Dimaz (http://freshmeat.net/users/Dimaz/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:28

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

About: Immix aligns and merges a set of similar images in order to
decrease their noise. This technique can be used to compensate for the
large amount of numerical noise that results from taking digital
photographs in low-light conditions with short exposure times. 

Changes: Images are now aligned with subpixel precision, thus improving
the final averaged image resolution. A welcome screen was added, and
images can be dropped there. Tool tips were added everywhere. The main
window was improved. A setup program is now included with the single .exe
file. Memory usage was decreased. Some bugs were fixed.  

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[026] - KildClient 2.6.0 
  by Eduardo M Kalinowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/ekalin/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:50

Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Terminals :: Telnet

About: KildClient is a MUD client written with the GTK+ windowing toolkit.
It supports many common features of other clients, such as triggers, gags,
aliases, macros, timers, and much more. But its main feature is the
built-in Perl interpreter. At any moment, the user can execute Perl
statements and functions to do things much more powerful than simply
sending text the the MUD. Perl statements can also be run, for example, as
the action of a trigger, allowing you to do complex things. 

Changes: There is now a close button in the tabs for quickly closing the
world. When trying to connect to a Mud server, KildClient does not freeze
anymore. It is now easier to set up session logging, as logging can be
configured and started or stopped from the World Editor. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - konqil.icio.us 2.0 
  by Tim Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbrown/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:54

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: konqil.icio.us is a KDE service menu for del.icio.us.

Changes: The configuration code was refactored, and now prompts for user
name on first execution and allows reconfiguration. Norwegian translations
were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/konqil.icio.us/

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[028] - LON-CAPA 2.5.99.0 (Release Candidates)
  by Gerd Kortemeyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/korte/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:17

Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Education :: Testing

About: LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline Network with CAPA) is a learning
content and course management system. It offers an underlying shared
content pool from which instructors across departmental and institutional
boundaries can assemble granular learning content for their courses. It
has strong assessment capabilities, both formative (homework and in-class
using wireless PDAs) and summative (online and bubblesheet exams), with a
one-source multiple-target strategy for the content. It offers students
portfolio space in which they can stage materials for submission to
projects, and provides a number of tools for synchronous and asynchronous
student-student and student-faculty communication. LON-CAPA scales well
with number of students, as load-balancing is possible across the whole
network of servers at participating institutions.

Changes: This is the first release candidate for version 2.6 with a focus
on better institutional adaptability. Rules for usernames (e.g., allowed
characters and length) and student IDs can now be set on an institutional
base, as well as allowed authentication types, addresses for helpdesks,
and rules for the usage of the institutional directory. The time zone can
now be set on a course-by-course base. New tags <translated> and <lang> to
support multilingual pages and problems have been implemented. The release
also includes several other feature enhancements and bugfixes. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - Quick Look 1.0.2 
  by Carlos Rodrigues (http://freshmeat.net/users/CrLf/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:44

System :: Systems Administration

About: Quick Look is a package to collect system statistics and output
pretty graphics and (X)HTML pages. It allows system administrators to have
a quick look at the status of their systems without going for a more
advanced (and heavier) solution. It currently shows CPU and memory usage,
load average and process spawning rates, I/O operations, network traffic
rates, and tracked network connections.

Changes: Problems with disk devices with slashes in their names (e.g. HP
SmartArray RAID volumes) were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[030] - RegexKit 0.5.0 
  by johne (http://freshmeat.net/users/johne_ganz/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:47

Desktop Environment :: GNUstep
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: RegexKit is an Objective-C framework for regular expressions using
the PCRE library for Mac OS X Cocoa and GNUstep. It includes an extensive
collection of category additions for the NSArray, NSData, NSDictionary,
NSSet, and NSString Foundation objects. 

Changes: RegexKit instruments for Leopard's Instruments.app, RegexKit
specific DTrace probes, and regular expression support for NSData objects
were added.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[031] - Seismic ToolKit 0.56 
  by Dominique Reymond (http://freshmeat.net/users/Reymond/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 04:01

Education
Scientific/Engineering

About: Seismic Toolkit is a tool for processing and displaying seismic
signal data in a graphical interface. It reads seismic signals in SAC
format, and provides a variety of signal processing, such as filtering,
spectral analysis, polarisation analysis, time-frequency representation,
Hilbert transform, and singular value decomposition. Some utilities are
included for useful seismological applications, like computation of
Seismic Moment Mo, Mantle magnitude Mm and Moment magnitude Mw, MTPA
spectral analysis, plotting focal mechanisms, computation (and plotting)
of instrumental response from poles and zeros, and some usefull GMT
(Generic Mapping Tool) scripts for plotting signals, responses, and
time-frequency in Postscript files for high quality prints.

Changes: Major bugs were corrected with alloc() and memcpy() functions on
64-bit machines.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seismictoolkit-stk/

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[032] - typespeed 0.6.4 
  by Tobias Stoeckmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/paldium/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 04:19

Education
Games/Entertainment

About: Typespeed is a tool and game for testing your typing speed. It
displays your CPS and WPM, typo ratio, and some points to compare with
your friends. It is a clone of 'ztspeed', and features a network play mode
for challenging your friends.

Changes: An issue where specially crafted network packets can lead to a
division by zero, resulting in a segmentation fault was fixed. Total
characters per seconds won't be displayed anymore, instead the more often
used words per minute (for correctly entered words) will be shown.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - Veritar 0.1.0 
  by gnot (http://freshmeat.net/users/gnot/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 17:23

System :: Archiving

About: Veritar is a command-line utility that verifies the MD5 sums of
files within a tar archive. Due to the limitations of the tar ("ustar")
format, the MD5 sums are retrieved from a separate file and are checked
against the MD5 sums of the files within the tar archive. The process
takes place without actually exctracting the files. It works even with
corrupted tar archives. The program carries on to the next file within the
archive, skipping the damaged parts. At the moment, this relies on internal
functions of Python's tarfile module. 

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[034] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.6 
  by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 13:20

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Wiaflos Accounting is an attempt to create a multi-platform
server-client based accounting system. The goal is to have a central
accounting engine which can either run on a dedicated server or on the
same PC as the client interface. A SOAP API allows for the easy writing of
GUI or Web interfaces or for tying into in-house systems. It is intended to
be useful for everyone from single-person organizations to multinational
corporate entities.

Changes: A major rewrite was done for the API and backend. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Zumastor 0.4 (Stable)
  by shapor (http://freshmeat.net/users/shapor/)
  Sat, Dec 1st 2007 03:51

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
System :: Filesystems

About: The Zumastor Linux storage project adds enterprise storage features
to Linux, primarily improved snapshots and remote replication.
Point-in-time, near zero-cost, block level snapshots can be added to any
existing filesystem and performance does not degrade with multiple
snapshots. Remote replication is achieved by sending minimal block level
deltas between snapshots without having to traverse the entire filesystem
like rsync does.

Changes: This release is the product of months of testing and debugging,
including working around core kernel block-io memory recursion issues.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



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