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---------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is sponsored by ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven http://www.thinkgeek.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- January 31, 2003 Freshmeat Latest Updates aimbot 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111200/ aimbot is a bot that runs on the AOL Instant Messenger network and acts as a customer service representative would, talking back to 'customers' who contact it. Anthill Build Manager 1.5.44 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111239/ Anthill is a tool that ensures a controlled build process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization. Anthill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number after every build. It supports many reposistory adapters including: CVS (Concurrent Versions System), Visual Source Safe, Perforce, PVCS, StarTeam, MKSIntegrity, and FileSystem. Anthill also automatically updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill is an extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible with version 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 of Ant. Astaro Security Linux 3.391 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111219/ Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities. Blue Linux 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110780/ Blue Linux is a free operating system for computers in the educational field. It is based on the Linux core system, and comes with many packages that are used in the educational field. All these packages are bundled up in an easy installation program. Borges Documents Management System 0.7.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111224/ Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD. BSM Pseudonymizer 0.1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111227/ BSM Pseudonymizer pseudonymizes records from Solaris BSM audit trail files. Personal data such as user IDs, pathnames, timestamps, etc. is replaced with pseudonyms so that the generated output doesn't reveal private information about the system's users, but still preserves a maximum of integrity and consistency. CanIt 1.9 (Pro) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111231/ CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention required. CanIt 1.9 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111230/ CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention required. cgdb 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111254/ cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and more. CVSToys 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111245/ CVSToys is a collection of companion tools for the Concurrent Versions System, better known as CVS. It currently contains FreshCVS, which performs actions in response to a commit. Actions include notification by various methods, updating a working copy, and rsync'ing to backup. Another key feature of FreshCVS notifications is that you receive one per commit, not one for each directory of the commit as loginfo-triggered scripts are prone to do. FreshCVS is extensible with Python, and notifications may be published by a Perspective Broker network service, allowing 3rd party clients to listen in. DbtuTools 0.99.020 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111223/ The DbtuTools project is a framework for working with the Unix/Wintel versions of IBM's DB2 UDB database family. Fink 0.5.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111229/ The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source. GtkGLExt 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111235/ GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It has low-level OpenGL related objects with GLX like interface, and high-level gtk_widget API add-ons which extends any GTK+ widget to an OpenGL-capable widget. gtkglextmm 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111236/ gtkglextmm is C++ wrapper for GtkGLExt, an OpenGL extension to GTK. Hibernate 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111207/ Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including composition, association, inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL, Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL. Impact 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111246/ Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats. JasperReports 0.4.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111205/ JasperReports is a report-generating Java library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, or XML format. JavaBDD 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111221/ JavaBDD is a Java library for manipulating BDDs (binary decision diagrams). Binary decision diagrams are widely used in model checking, formal verification, optimizing circuit diagrams, and other areas. Katie snapshot-17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111243/ Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most interesting features of Katie are that the repository is mounted as a filesystem (rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all versions of all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this filesystem (so there is, for example, no need for a Katie-specific diff command like CVS has), and that directories are versioned (just like files are). Basic operations (creation of elements, checkout, checkin, dynamic views, config specs, and branches) work, but there is much work still to go before it will be generally useful. KPreg 1.2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111222/ KPreg is a helper application for completing Web forms and other programs. It provides an interface for entering commonly required data, such as name, email, address, etc. With a simple click of the mouse, any item in the text list is copied to the clipboard, and can then be easily pasted in any form or application. KPreg can dock in the panel for easy access (in KDE). Licq 1.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111234/ Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user status, basic/extended user info, adding/editing users from within the GUI, user history, user groups, and new user registration. All commands and information are available through a simple and convenient tab dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ and comes with a GUI plugin using the Qt widget set. Other plugins are also available. Linux 2.4.21-pre4 (2.4-testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111203/ Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.5.1e (Linux-2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111240/ This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts, C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A). Lopo's Talker OS Star 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111211/ Lotos is a telnet-based chat server (talker) written in C for communicating with users in real time. It supports plugin modules, ANSI colors, rank accessing to more commands, authentication (finger, auth, ident) and more. Manauton 0.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111212/ Manauton is a manual and autonomous sound recorder. In autonomous mode it can start and stop recording based on sound characteristics. When in manual mode, recording can be paused and un-paused manually. Using a series of buffers, the effect of negative latency can be accomplished, this effect cancels out the effect of the human latency associated with hearing a sound and interpreting it. mnoGoSearch 3.2.8 (3.2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111217/ mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and external parsers support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support. mod_auth_pgsql 2.0.0 (Apache 2.0.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111206/ mod_auth_pgsql is an Apache (1.3/2.0) module that allows user authentication (and can log authentication requests) against information stored in a PostgreSQL database. Mod_Survey 3.0.14d (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111255/ 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. newfile 1.0.1.b.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111208/ newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more. OSSP ex 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111226/ OSSP ex is a small ISO-C++ style exception handling library for use in the ISO-C language. It allows you to use the paradigm of throwing and catching exceptions in order to reduce the amount of error handling code without making your program less robust. This is achieved by directly transferring exceptional return codes (and the program control flow) from the location where the exception is raised (throw point) to the location where it is handled (catch point), usually from a deeply nested sub-routine to a parent routine. All intermediate routines no longer have to make sure that the exceptional return codes from sub-routines are correctly passed back to the parent. Q-Midi 1.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111233/ Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available, including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires Tcl/Tk). Simple Expenses Manager 0.9.1 (Developement) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111241/ Simple Expenses Manager is a Perl CGI for entering simple day-to-day expenses. It is not a full-featured accounting package, but it is useful for no-brainer expense tracking. It supports user-defined categories, sorting, and calculating totals and averages according to a time period and/or category. It also features multi-user login, with CGI-based administration. TightVNC 1.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111249/ TightVNC is a VNC distribution with many new features, improvements, and bugfixes over VNC. It is optimized for faster operation on slow network links such as modem connections, provides more configuration options in the server, features automatic SSH tunneling in the Unix vncviewer, and more. The modified servers and viewers are fully compatible with the original VNC software. VideoDB 2003-01-30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111220/ VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies. WireFusion 1.01 (MP3 add-on) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111218/ WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web. Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3 player. WireFusion 1.01 (Video add-on) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111216/ WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web. Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3 player. WireFusion 1.1 (Slide show add-on) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111215/ WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web. Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3 player. xine xine-ui 0.9.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111253/ xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications. Zorp 2.0rc3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111213/ Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the administrator to finetune proxy decisions (with its built-in script language), and fully analyze complex protocols (including SSH with several forwarded TCP connections, or SSL with an embedded POP3 protocol). FTP, HTTP, finger, whois, and SSL protocols are fully supported with an application-level gateway. Zorp aims for compliance with the Common Cirteria/Application-level Firewall Protection Profile for Medium Robustness Enviroment. ZynAddSubFX 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111214/ ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. 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