Newsletter for Saturday, December 15th 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/2007/12/15/
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 (51) :::

[001] - Ansifilter 0.3 
[002] - Apache ActiveMQ 5.0.0 
[003] - Avis 1.1.4 
[004] - BlockHosts 2.2.0 
[005] - chaostables 0.8 
[006] - ClamTk 3.05 
[007] - cvsxxdiff 1.2 
[008] - CyberNeko HTML Parser 1.9.6 
[009] - Das Katerchen 0.1.2 
[010] - doublecpp 0.6.2 
[011] - DRBGuestbook 1.1.17 
[012] - Dudders 1.00 (Release)
[013] - EiffelStudio 6.1 MR (Stable)
[014] - eric4 4.0.4 
[015] - fav2png 1.0 
[016] - Freecell Solver 2.8.14 
[017] - FreeDup 1.3-1 
[018] - fwknop 1.9.0 
[019] - Gammu 1.16.0 (Stable)
[020] - Giggle 0.4 
[021] - Gnome Subtitles 0.7.1 
[022] - Gringotts 1.2.9pre3 
[023] - Groupy 0.65 
[024] - IT++ 4.0.1 (Stable)
[025] - Jajuk 1.4.4 
[026] - Jomic 0.9.28 
[027] - kReiSSy 0.2.1 
[028] - libstratanetsh 2.3.1 
[029] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5-pre2 (Development)
[030] - Momomoto 0.1.14 
[031] - mplay 1.0-beta4 
[032] - Natural CLI 1.0 
[033] - Nixory 0.6.3 
[034] - p7zip 4.57 
[035] - Pentabarf 0.3.7 
[036] - plptools 0.19 
[037] - PySQL 0.11 
[038] - RabbIT 3.14 
[039] - RBrainz 0.4.0 
[040] - rxvt-unicode 8.8 
[041] - Simple Groupware 0.320 
[042] - SiSU 0.62.4 
[043] - SquirrelMail 1.4.13 (Stable)
[044] - Statfink 2.0.5 
[045] - TermLauncher Applet 0.0.2 
[046] - trading-shim 071214 
[047] - vitetris 0.3 
[048] - Votorola 0.0.6 
[049] - Watchmaker 0.4.3 
[050] - white_dune 0.29beta782 (Development)
[051] - ziproxy 2.4.3 


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[001] - Ansifilter 0.3 
  by André Simon (http://freshmeat.net/users/Saalen/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:59

Text Processing :: Filters

About: Ansifilter handles text files containing ANSI terminal escape
codes. The command sequences may be stripped or be interpreted to generate
formatted output (HTML or RTF).

Changes: Some more unsupported code sequences are ignored.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[002] - Apache ActiveMQ 5.0.0 
  by Hiram Chirino (http://freshmeat.net/users/chirino/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:42

Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Object Brokering

About: Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful message broker and
enterprise integration patterns provider. Apache ActiveMQ is fast,
supports many cross language clients and protocols, comes with easy-to-use
enterprise integration patterns and many advanced features, while fully
supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. 

Changes: Many new features were added, such as AMQ message store (which
provides faster persistence), message cursors (which keep producers from
blocking if you have a slow consumer), blob messages, a command agent,
enterprise integration patterns (Camel integration), logging a warning if
you forget to start a connection, message transformation, and mirrored
queues. 

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[003] - Avis 1.1.4 
  by Matthew Phillips (http://freshmeat.net/users/scramjet/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:48

Internet
Software Development

About: Avis is a multicast event bus. It provides a fast publish/subscribe
event routing service compatible with the commercial Elvin implementation
developed by Mantara Software. 

Changes: This release provides some enchancements to federation setup. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[004] - BlockHosts 2.2.0 
  by Avinash Chopde (http://freshmeat.net/users/avinash1/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:34

System :: Networking

About: BlockHosts is a script to record how many times a local system is
attacked, based on configurable scanning of system logs for sshd or other
services. When a particular IP address exceeds a configured number of
failed login attempts, that IP address is blocked using hosts.allow files,
or by using null-routing, or by using packet filtering. An email
notification facility is also available. 

Changes: Logging and mail notification were improved. Logwatch scripts are
now included to provide a summary of blockhosts activity. Mail can now be
set to send only if there are errors or warnings or notice level messages.


License: Public Domain

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

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[005] - chaostables 0.8 
  by Jan Engelhardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/jengelh/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:36

Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: chaostables is a package with iptables/netfilter targets that will
foil network scanners. Documentation on how it works and how to
reimplement it in userspace are also provided. Special features include
recognition of all nmap scan types including -sS SYN Scan, proactive
slowdown of TCP and UDP (10000+%), and providing back fake
nondeterministic information. 

Changes: An update was made for kernel 2.6.23 and iptables 1.4.0svn7183. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - ClamTk 3.05 
  by phenom (http://freshmeat.net/users/phen0m/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:55



About: ClamTk is a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed
to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner. 

Changes: This release adds some scanning enhancements and fixes several
bugs, most notably with recursive scanning.

License: Perl License

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

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[007] - cvsxxdiff 1.2 
  by Michalis Giannakidis (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgiannakidis/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 14:09

Software Development :: Version Control :: CVS

About: cvsxxdiff is a utility designed to graphically display differences
between files in the local working directory and the CVS repository or
between two revisions on the repository. Convenient options to review
revisions of a file as it was n versions ago and the CVS log accompanying
that revision are provided. When invoked in conflict resolve mode, it
works as a graphical tool to resolve conflicts. Graphical output is
provided by xxdiff.

Changes: A new utility named cvsnup has been added. cvsnup inquires the
status of the local files with those on the CVS repository. It finds any
not updated, modified, or missing files and reports them in various
convenient ways. Also, it creates changelogs for any changes that have not
yet been merged. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[008] - CyberNeko HTML Parser 1.9.6 
  by Andy Clark (http://freshmeat.net/users/andyc2/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:50

Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: NekoHTML is a simple HTML scanner and tag balancer that enables
Java application programmers to parse HTML documents and access the
information using standard XML interfaces. The parser can scan HTML files
and "fix up" many common mistakes that human (and computer) authors make
in writing HTML documents. NekoHTML is written using the Xerces Native
Interface (XNI) that is the foundation of the Xerces2 implementation. This
enables application programmers to use the NekoHTML parser with existing
XNI tools without modification or rewriting code. 

Changes: The license was changed to Apache 2.0 and the version number was
boosted to reflect the maturity of the project. Project files were
reorganized to decouple them from the rest of the CyberNeko Tools for XNI.
xercesMinimal.jar and source were updated so that NekoHTML compiles using
Xerces-J 2.9.1. The default behavior was changed to not normalize
attribute values and a new feature was added to allow users to turn on
normalization. The build was modified to target compilation for Java 1.3.
Suggested paragraph tag balancing was adjusted and various reported bugs
were fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[009] - Das Katerchen 0.1.2 
  by Guido (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidoreina/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:12

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents

About: Das Katerchen SMTP Server is a simple SMTP server for Linux
platforms. It supports the mininum requirements of the RFC 2821 plus the
following SMTP extensions: CHUNKING (RFC 1830), 8BITMIME (RFC 1652), and
SIZE (RFC 1870).

Changes: This release fixes a couple of bugs. The makefile has been
improved.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[010] - doublecpp 0.6.2 
  by Lorenzo Bettini (http://freshmeat.net/users/bettini/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:43

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Pre-processors

About: Doublecpp is a preprocessor for C++ that handles a new linguistic
construct for defining branches of a multi-method. The "right" branch of
such a method will be selected dynamically at run-time according to the
actual type of the object on which the method is invoked, and to the
actual type of the first argument: double dispatch. This basically
implements dynamic overloading in C++. 

Changes: Warning error messages are printed correctly, so that they are
recognized as warnings (and not as errors) by an IDE. In makefiles,
non-standard make rules are avoided. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - DRBGuestbook 1.1.17 
  by Don (http://freshmeat.net/users/drb072378/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:48

Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: DRBGuestbook is a simple guestbook script that doesn't require a
database. It allows you delete entries and ban IP addresses through an
easy-to-use, password protected administration interface. Posts containing
specific words can be filtered using a configurable bad word list. You can
also receive an email notification anytime someone signs your guestbook. 

Changes: Support for guestbook entry count was added. URL validation with
a regular expression was improved. 

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[012] - Dudders 1.00 (Release)
  by Dean Scarff (http://freshmeat.net/users/p00ya/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:11

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: Dudders (DHCP Updating DNS Duly Embracing RSA SIG(0)) (with some
poetic license) is a utility for updating DNS records. It points a domain
name to a given IP address using the RFC2136 DNS UPDATE protocol and a
SIG(0) signature. It is designed with embedded systems in mind.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[013] - EiffelStudio 6.1 MR (Stable)
  by Emmanuel Stapf (http://freshmeat.net/users/manus_eiffel/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:45

Database
Office/Business
Software Development

About: EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC
25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes: Eiffel compiler,
Eiffel editor, Eiffel code browsing tool, graphical design tool,
refactoring tool, debugger, profiler, and Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics,
Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel
applies O-O principles and Design by Contract for high-quality software.
Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT, network, GUI, database, parsing
(including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web, COM, and more.

Changes: This is a maintenance release (MR) of EiffelStudio 6.1. It fixes
various issues with gcc on Windows and Vista in particular, and also fixes
issues in the compiler, debugger, UI, and Vision2 for all supported
platforms. This release corresponds to build 71477. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - eric4 4.0.4 
  by Detlev Offenbach (http://freshmeat.net/users/detlev/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:12

Software Development

About: Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions,
gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting
and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for
Python files, and more. Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3
development environment. 

Changes: Bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eric4/

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[015] - fav2png 1.0 
  by SectorPrime (http://freshmeat.net/users/sectorprime/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:59

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: fav2png is a CGI script that converts the favicon.ico image for a
given domain to the PNG format. It serves up a default icon if a site
doesn't have a favicon. The generated images are cached on the server
side. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fav2png/

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[016] - Freecell Solver 2.8.14 
  by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:35

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves
games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as
games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within
third-party applications.

Changes: An uninitialized struct member in the fc-solve executable was
initialized. 

License: Public Domain

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

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[017] - FreeDup 1.3-1 
  by AN (http://freshmeat.net/users/aneuper/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:11

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
System :: Archiving :: Compression
System :: Filesystems

About: Freedup finds and eliminates duplicate files by linking them, and
thus reduces the amount of used disk space within one or more file
systems. By default, hardlinks are used on a single device, symbolic links
when the devices differ. A set of options allows you to modify the methods
of file comparison, the hash functions, the linking behavior, and the
reporting style. You may use batch or interactive mode. Freedup usually
only considers identical files, but when comparing audio or graphics
files, you may elect to ignore the tags.

Changes: This release offers a much more efficient usage of the internal
hash function. This new default algorithm consumes a bit more memory, but
takes, in the worst case, about the same time as without hash calculation.
The file reads are significantly reduced and in a test case the wait time
for about 8000 files (48MB average) was decreased from 5 to 2 minutes.
This is about the performance of dupseek without the risk of wrong partial
results. The documentation was updated and a bug in statistics was fixed,
too. Please note that with this version the "-#" option now requires an
argument. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - fwknop 1.9.0 
  by Michael Rash (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelrash/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:33

Security
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: fwknop implements an authorization scheme that requires only a
single encrypted packet to communicate various pieces of information,
including desired access through a Netfilter policy and/or specific
commands to execute on the target system. The main application of this
program is to protect services such as SSH with an additional layer of
security in order to make the exploitation of vulnerabilities much more
difficult. The authorization server works by passively monitoring
authorization packets via libpcap. 

Changes: Support was added for NAT communications after a valid SPA packet
is monitored so that internal systems can be reached from the external
Internet. (This only works with iptables firewalls for now.) A test suite
so that SPA communications can be validated in an automated way added. The
ability to periodically restart the fwknop daemons based on a configurable
time interval was added. (This is useful for the extra cautious.) iptables
OUTPUT chain support was added for installations that do not have the
conntrack modules running and that use a restrictive OUTPUT chain. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Gammu 1.16.0 (Stable)
  by Michal Čihař (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:56

Communications :: Telephony
Utilities

About: Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for
various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia,
Symbian, and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung,
SE, and others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries
with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time,
alarm, calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also
includes a command line utility that can make many things (including
backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from
the PHP interface. 

Changes: Various issues with SMS, OBEX, and AT phones were fixed.
Detection of several new phones was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - Giggle 0.4 
  by Guilhem BONNEFILLE (http://freshmeat.net/users/guyou/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:08

Software Development :: Version Control

About: Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git directory tracker. 

Changes: This release contains some minor improvements and fixes. More
notables enhancements are new French and Vietnamese translations, access
to remote info (since Git 1.5), and a saving patch feature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - Gnome Subtitles 0.7.1 
  by Pedro Castro (http://freshmeat.net/users/noup/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:44

Multimedia :: Video
Text Editors

About: Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It
supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for
subtitle editing, translation, and synchronization.

Changes: This release fixes a bug with compilation failing on 64-bit
machines, as well as a crasher bug that happened when changing to Frames
mode after startup. The man page was updated. The program launcher was
updated to use libdir in order to work on 64-bit machines. The translation
credits in the About dialog were updated. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - Gringotts 1.2.9pre3 
  by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:10

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Security
Security :: Cryptography

About: Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive
data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. It lets the user choose
from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms
(SHA1, RIPEMD 160), and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with
four compression ratios. It allows the user to use any file or an entire
floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string. 

Changes: The README.Debian was integrated into the README without its own
note. A note about the SUID-root problem was added to the error message of
the mlock-memory. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - Groupy 0.65 
  by wundbread (http://freshmeat.net/users/wundbread/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:53

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Groupy is a content management system that allows groups within an
organization to share multi-lingual content. It provides a unique tool for
organizing diverse content types (Articles, News, Files, Images, Events,
etc.) in a rich editing environment similar to a wiki.

Changes: The draft system was fixed. A security hole in the trash page was
fixed. A security hole in anonymous comments was fixed. The way that NULL
undefined dates are handled was fixed. A setting for controlling how
users' names are displayed was added. The user profile page was cleaned
up. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - IT++ 4.0.1 (Stable)
  by ediap (http://freshmeat.net/users/ediap/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 11:57

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing, speech
processing, and communications classes and functions. It is being
developed by researchers in these areas and is widely used by researchers,
both in the communications industry and universities. Since 2004, IT++ is
also being developed as a part of the European Network of Excellence in
Wireless Communications (NEWCOM).

Changes: The detection of external BLAS/LAPACK libraries has been
improved. It is now possible to use Intel MKL or Apple's Accelerate
Framework without a Fortran compiler. SVD and QR decompositions are now
calculated much faster. Also, itpp-config and pkg-config's itpp.pc scripts
have been improved, so the use of an additional explicit "--static" switch
should be not necessary in most common cases. Finally, all bugs reported
for version 4.0.0 have been fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[025] - Jajuk 1.4.4 
  by Bertrand Florat (http://freshmeat.net/users/bflorat/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 14:09

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

About: Jajuk is a multi-platform music organizer. The main goal is to
provide a fully-featured application to advanced users with large or
scattered music collections. It supports most audio formats.

Changes: Many performances enhancements and fixes were made since 1.4.1. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - Jomic 0.9.28 
  by Thomas Aglassinger (http://freshmeat.net/users/roskakori/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:54

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Jomic is a viewer for comic books stored in CBZ, CBR, and PDF
files. Features include a two page mode, caching, and support for several
image formats (PNG, JFIF/JPEG, TIFF, and GIF).

Changes: This release fixes opening of CBR archives with Mac OS X 10.5 on
Intel Macs and a few AssertionErrors, and changes the license to GPL v3 or
later.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[027] - kReiSSy 0.2.1 
  by Marcos Dione (http://freshmeat.net/users/StyXman/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:55

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: kReiSSy is an integrated RSS feed reader and Web browser
implemented in pykde. Its distinctive feature is that you can tag any
article you read in the Internet and it becomes an article you can view,
search, and tag in the main interface. 

Changes: A "NameError: global name 'ftw' is not defined" bug was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - libstratanetsh 2.3.1 
  by free2malloc (http://freshmeat.net/users/free2malloc/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:00

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Hardware
System :: Networking

About: libstratanetsh (previously called "libnetshclient") is a POSIX/ANSI
C library for use in the development of applications which require direct
communication (using the "strata netsh" protocol) with a Foxmoxie Networks
STRATA-family router (or any server-type-application that supports the
protocol). This library employs both IPv4 and IPv6, as well as GnuTLS
encryption, and may be used at either the client end or the server end. 

Changes: Better inter-arch support and a timeout in the managed
transmission routine.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5-pre2 (Development)
  by faidros (http://freshmeat.net/users/faidros/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:10

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to
create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout. 

Changes: An up-to-date DTD for the markup language was added. Several
minor bugs with Windows compatibility were fixed. Some minor layout
glitches with MATRIX in Internet Explorer were fixed. IP-based uniqueness
checking in answers was implemented. Trying to download data when no data
has been submitted should now produce an empty data export rather than a
perl crash message. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Momomoto 0.1.14 
  by Sven Klemm (http://freshmeat.net/users/nevs/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:54

Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules

About: Momomoto is an object-relational mapper written in Ruby for
PostgreSQL. It features support for combined primary keys, support for
stored procedures, and support for schemas. Metadata for tables, views,
and stored procedures are fetched directly from the database to keep
declaring classes as simple as possible. 

Changes: Major improvements to the documentation.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - mplay 1.0-beta4 
  by Romulus Pfeiffer (http://freshmeat.net/users/romuluspfeiffer/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:18



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, an interactive shoutcast
stream browser, and interactive help, and remembers the position upon
quitting.

Changes: The xmplay shell script was added. xmplay will start mplay in a
new xterm with the saved size and its own defined color scheme. The need
to press several keys to add several things was replaced by a menu.
Type-ahead-search works now without holding the Alt-key. Mouse
initialization was fixed. The menu for changing colors was improved. For
compatibility reasons, some keys and shortcuts were modified. Some
work-arounds were made for shoutcast streams. The artist and genre filter
should now work as expected. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Natural CLI 1.0 
  by Ferran Busquets (http://freshmeat.net/users/ferranb/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:08

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: User Interfaces
Terminals

About: Natural CLI is a Java library that provides developers with an easy
way to use human readable command line interfaces. This means that your
software can understand easy command lines like "$acme start daemon
mailservice", "$acme send file /tmp/pau.jpg to friend", or "$acme start
backup in 10 minutes". Command lines are very easy to define.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - Nixory 0.6.3 
  by Alfredo Spadafina (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yoshis/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 12:22

Security

About: Nixory is an innovative, fast, and powerful anti-spyware program,
with a user-friendly graphical interface. It protects Mozilla Firefox from
dangerous spyware and harmful cookies. 

Changes: The code has been totally rewritten. Execution speed and
performance have been largely improved. The graphical interface has been
updated. The scan system has been improved with new management of cookie
definitions. A completely new and better heuristic scan was added. An
automatic detection of cookies.txt files was added (which works on Windows
and Linux). The possibility to manage multiple Firefox profiles was added.
The possibility to change icon themes and language using zip packages was
added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - p7zip 4.57 
  by myspace54 (http://freshmeat.net/users/myspace54/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:40

System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Compression

About: p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix, Mac OS X, and BeOS. 7za.exe is
the command line version of 7-zip, a file archiver with a high compression
ratio.  

Changes: A minor improvement was made in ZIP compression. Support was
improved for AIX, HP-UX, and kFreeBSD. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p7zip/

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[035] - Pentabarf 0.3.7 
  by Sven Klemm (http://freshmeat.net/users/nevs/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:43



About: Pentabarf is conference planning software written in Ruby (using
the Rails framework) and PL/pgSQL.

Changes: There have been a few database changes. All varchar fields have
been replaced by text fields to remove arbitrary limitations. The most
important change is the addition of the conference_day table. The days of
the conference are no longer a start date with the number of days but is
now a list of individual dates which do not have to be consecutive. Those
days can be named and be marked as public so they will appear in the
schedule. There have been compatibility changes to make Pentabarf work
with Rails 1.2.6 and there have been a lot of bugfixes. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[036] - plptools 0.19 
  by Reuben Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rrt/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:34

Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities

About: plptools lets Unix (mainly Linux) systems communicate with Psion
PDAs (and other EPOC devices) over a serial line. On Linux, an infra-red
connection is also possible. The following tools are part of the package:
plpbackup, a command-line backup program; plpftp, an FTP-like frontend
with some extensions; sisinstall, a SIS package installer; plpnfsd, a
daemon providing the Psion's file system via an NFS-mounted directory;
plpprintd, a print server for printing via a PC; and kio_plp, a KIOslave
which enables all KDE applications to deal with files on a Psion.  

Changes: This release removes the KDE utilities and plpbackup, and
replaces plpnfsd with the FUSE-based plpfuse, which works much better. The
build system has been overhauled and radically simplified. plpftp has been
improved with support for the EPOC clipboard, and bugfixes to stopping and
starting tasks on the EPOC device were ported from plpbackup. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - PySQL 0.11 
  by digitalfox (http://freshmeat.net/users/digitalfox/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:40

Database
Database :: Front-Ends

About: PySQL aims to be a full replacement for sqlplus (and much more). It
has features such as history, completion, and line editing. It has high
level functions (searching for tables, indexes, count, explain plan, list
of sessions, etc.), proper output for screen and files (CSV ready for
inclusion in spreadsheets), support for user-defined SQL, background
queries, graphical output for the schema data model, object dependencies,
a PL/SQL package function call tree, and much more.

Changes: All of the source tree was reorganized and was switched from a
custom build system to distutils. Installable packages are available for
Linux (RPM and Slackware tgz) and Windows. Pysql is now installed in a
standard Python site-package and a wrapper is put on the PATH. All
configuration and cache files are now in $HOME/.pysql/ on Unix and
%APPDATA%/pysql/ on Windows. The use of extended search patterns was added
to the search function and datamodel function. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - RabbIT 3.14 
  by Ernimril (http://freshmeat.net/users/ernimril/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 12:24

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

About: RabbIt is a mutating, caching Web proxy used to speed up surfing
over slow links like modems. It does this by removing advertising and
background images and scaling down images to low quality JPEGs. RabbIT is
written in Java and should be able to run on any platform. It does depend
upon an image converter if image scaleing is on. The recommended image
converter is "convert" from the ImageMagick package.

Changes: A problem with parsing HTTP/0.9 responses and a problem with
requests with no file information were fixed. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[039] - RBrainz 0.4.0 
  by outsidecontext (http://freshmeat.net/users/sunfire/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:50

Internet
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules

About: RBrainz is a Ruby client library to query the MusicBrainz database
using the MusicBrainz XML Web service. It follows the design of the
MusicBrainz client library reference implementation, and supports the
MusicBrainz XML Metadata Schema Version 1.2.

Changes: This release adds support for folksonomy tagging, HTTP proxies,
and release formats. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[040] - rxvt-unicode 8.8 
  by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:46

Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Internationalization
Terminals

About: rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt,
modified to store text in Unicode and to use locale-correct input and
output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at the same time, including
Xft fonts, real transparency, and an optional embedded Perl interpreter
that allows you to extend your terminal easily. 

Changes: Libev was updated, working around a problem with the Linux 2.4
kernel and curing the problem of urxvt sometimes not refreshing in a
timely fashion. The -C option now works as expected. The urxvtd will flush
X events only once per display, not per open window. The slipwheeling
behavior has been improved. Text blinking will no longer take miniscule
amounts of CPU time when not used. There have been a lot of small code
cleanups and code size optimizations. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rxvt-unicode/

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[041] - Simple Groupware 0.320 
  by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:51

Communications
Information Management
Office/Business

About: Simple Groupware is a complete groupware package. Unlike other
groupwares, Simple Groupware contains a new programming language called
sgsML, which was created to quickly create powerful Web applications. 

Changes: New WebDAV features were added for viewing folder summaries and
creating files and folders directly in any application. WebDAV filenames
were made shorter. A new option was added to "go back" to the last view
after saving an asset. New translations were added for Slovak, Croatian,
and Brazilian Portuguese. Printing was improved for calendar and Gantt
views. Also a new "print all" command was added to print all assets in the
current folder. New fields for images and curricula were added to the
contacts module. Categories were added to the portal module and some bugs
were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - SiSU 0.62.4 
  by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:13

Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories

About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a lightweight
markup based, text structuring and publishing framework (that features
granular search). With minimal markup of a plaintext file, it produces:
plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL
database at an object/paragraph level for granular searches. Prepare
documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the
desired output formats. SiSU is controlled from the command line. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[043] - SquirrelMail 1.4.13 (Stable)
  by Thijs Kinkhorst (http://freshmeat.net/users/kinkhorst/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:59

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes
built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages
are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers.
It has very few requirements, and is very easy to configure and install.
It has all the functionality you would want from an email client,
including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. 

Changes: This release fixes high risk security issues that allowed remote
inclusion of files with PHP 4 and allow_url_fopen on that were introduced
in compromised 1.4.11 and 1.4.12 packages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - Statfink 2.0.5 
  by StickMan (http://freshmeat.net/users/fewli0/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:45

Games/Entertainment

About: Statfink is a Fantasy (American) Football statistics tracker and
live scoring program that is best suited for working with leagues hosted
at Yahoo!. It is meant to be run by one member of the league so that the
rest of the members can view the output.

Changes: This version is a minor bugfix release that fixes a bug in the
newly added optimal view. There's also a fix for flea flicker fumble
recoveries for a TD. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - TermLauncher Applet 0.0.2 
  by Mike Peters (http://freshmeat.net/users/mdpeters/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:10

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Utilities

About: TermLauncher Applet is a simple GNOME Panel Applet for quickly
launching gnome-terminals. It is meant as an alternative to the standard
launcher applet and has a context menu that enables you to launch a
terminal using a particular profile.

Changes: Profiles are now retrieved from
/apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list so that only profiles currently
in use are displayed. Profiles are now sorted alphabetically.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - trading-shim 071214 
  by R P Herrold (http://freshmeat.net/users/rpherrold/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 13:26

Database :: API
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: The trading-shim is a database driven connector API that provides a
persistent store SQL backend database, translates operations to and from
the Interactive Brokers Java TWS API. It can act as an interpreter for
commands, and permits downstream clients to access several worldwide
securities markets and exchanges (stocks, options, futures, bonds, Forex)
for "tick" data and history (intraday, and EoD). It also allows clients to
supervise trades of securities and more. 

Changes: The "next" command was fixed. The test modes were re-enabled. A
bug in order cancellation was fixed. Modifications to implement 64-bit
order IDs was begun. This is not a full release, but is rather so that
interested parties can follow along in the code. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trading-shim/

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[047] - vitetris 0.3 
  by Victor Nilsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/vervex/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 04:10

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: vitetris is a Tetris clone for the terminal that doesn't use
ncurses. It features configurable keys, a high score table, and 2-player
mode. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[048] - Votorola 0.0.6 
  by Michael Allan (http://freshmeat.net/users/mcallan/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:55



About: Votorola is software for hosting open, public elections. It
implements an electoral system that sits outside of government and beyond
the control of parties. Its voter lists are backed by a trust network that
is rooted in community neighborhoods. It enables voters to advance their
own candidates for public office and their own legislative bills for
statutory law.

Changes: A meta-service was added to the voter interface to provide
bootstrap instructions on accessing the electoral services.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[049] - Watchmaker 0.4.3 
  by Dan Dyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/dandyer/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 23:48

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Watchmaker is an extensible, high-performance, multi-threaded,
object-oriented framework for implementing platform-independent
evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, etc.) in Java. 

Changes: An experimental evolution monitor Swing component was added.
Another termination condition implementation was added. The official
release version of Uncommons Maths is now used. 

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[050] - white_dune 0.29beta782 (Development)
  by MUFTI (http://freshmeat.net/users/mufti22/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:54

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple NURBS/Superformula
3D modeller and animation tool. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins
("HTML for realtime 3D"). It has support for animation, real-time
interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can
read, create and display VRML97 files and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like
a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.

Changes: This release field pipes for the rest of scenegraph branches. An
incorrect second "flip side" command in "Coordinate" nodes if the command
is used for the rest of a scenegraph branch was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[051] - ziproxy 2.4.3 
  by Daniel Mealha Cabrita (http://freshmeat.net/users/dancab/)
  Sat, Dec 15th 2007 03:56

Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Ziproxy is a forwarding (non-caching) proxy that gzips text and
HTML files, and reduces the size of images by converting them to lower
quality JPEGs. It is intended to increase the speed for low-speed Internet
connections and it's suitable for both home and professional usage. Ziproxy
is fully configurable and also features transparent proxy mode, preemptive
name resolution, operation in either daemon mode or (x)inetd mode, a
detailed access log with compression statistics, basic authentication, and
more. 

Changes: A bug where certain pages, under certain circumstances, could not
load or would load partially was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



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