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Anthill Pro is easy to use in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously built version. AstroCam System 2.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112086/ AstroCam is an C-based Stepmotor Controlsystem including a CGI Web interface. You can use it for controlling webcams over the Internet/intranet or everything else you want to do with a stepmotor. atop 1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112061/ Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command. At regular intervals, it shows system-level activity related to the CPU, memory, swap, disks and network layers, and it shows for every active process the CPU utilization in system and user mode, the virtual and resident memory growth, priority, username, state, and exit code. The process level activity is also shown for processes which finished during the last interval, to get a complete overview about the consumers of things such as CPU time. Atop only shows the active system-resources and processes, and only shows the deviations since the previous interval. BEJY 1.1.1.41 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112065/ BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things. Big Sister 0.98beta3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112112/ Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various Unixes and Windows. Clover framework 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112030/ CloverETL is Java-based framework for creating ETL transformations. It follows the concept of transformation graphs which consist of individual nodes performing simple operations on data. Any transformation can be defined as a set of interconnected nodes through which data flows. Dav 0.8.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112109/ Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is efficient in both memory and processor usage. Its user interface is designed to be intuitive and to increase productivity. DMI Gallery 2.0-pre-1 (Galerias II) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112035/ DMI Gallery is an editor-oriented image gallery application based on DMI. The editor just needs to FTP full-sized pictures into the directory and small and medium-sized thumbnails are automatically created. If a text documents with the same name as the picture is uploaded, it will be inserted as a description. DMI Gallery provides a complete set of navigation controls, and allows designers to create templates in their favorite HTML editor to customize the look and feel of the image gallery. DMI Gallery 1.4.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112033/ DMI Gallery is an editor-oriented image gallery application based on DMI. The editor just needs to FTP full-sized pictures into the directory and small and medium-sized thumbnails are automatically created. If a text documents with the same name as the picture is uploaded, it will be inserted as a description. DMI Gallery provides a complete set of navigation controls, and allows designers to create templates in their favorite HTML editor to customize the look and feel of the image gallery. EnergyMech 2.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112047/ The EnergyMech is an advanced IRC bot. It has many features including DCC partyline, powerful userlist handling, a telnet console, bot linking, and more. exiftags 0.97 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112098/ exiftags parses a JPEG file looking for Exif (Exchangeable Image File) data, formatting, and printing image properties. Digital cameras typically add Exif data to the image files they produce containing information about the camera and digitized image. exiftags includes support for some camera manufacturer-specific properties. eZ publish 3.0 release candidate 2 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112036/ eZ publish is a professional open source content management system (CMS). It lets you update and maintain the content of your site through a user friendly Web interface, eliminating the need for HTML code. It is dual licenced under the GPL and the eZ publish Professional licence, where you can get the right to use the source code for making your own commercial software. It is useful for building Web sites, Web shops, intranets/extranets, news sites, portals, and more. FLP 1.040 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112107/ FLP (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more. Frogg 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112031/ Frogg is a completely stand-alone player for Ogg Vorbis files, although support for other formats is coming soon. Designed from the ground up for low memory usage and a lightweight GUI, it's great for playing the occasional Ogg clip without starting up iTunes. Gammu 0.68 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112090/ Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 3510, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 7110, 82xx, 8310, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32. gcc 3.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112058/ The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many different optimizations to the resulting object code. GCompris 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112083/ GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 3 to 10 years old. It is activity-based, and currently includes more than 30 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids which teach them how to use a mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, and words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, and much more. GKrellM Volume 2.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112055/ GKrellM Volume is a plugin which controls the sound mixer device of your choice. GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112040/ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor. gPHPEdit 0.0.31 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112079/ gPHPEdit is a GNOME2 editor that is dedicated to editing PHP files and other supporting files, like HTML/CSS. It has support for drop-down function lists, hints showing parameters, and syntax highlighting. HTTP Navigator 2.0.1 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/112073/ HTTP Navigator is a set of PHP classes, based on Perl's LWP, that simplifies sending and receiving HTTP messages. Features include: cookie handling, basic authentication, chunked encoding, and keep-alive. icoutils 0.18.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112082/ The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files). Icoutils can also create icon and cursor files. IDSA 0.95 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112096/ IDS/A is a combined system logger, reference monitor, and intrusion detection system for applications. An IDS/A enabled application can not only be monitored, but also instructed to restrict functionality. Features include a powerful logging component and an extensible and modular access control subsystem which can driven by misuse signatures, anomaly detection modules, or even a human operator. Jahia CMS and Portal Server 4.0 Alpha 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112076/ JAHIA CMS and Portal Server is an open source and collaborative Java solution for building complex and dynamic Web sites. Unlike traditional corporate portal solutions, JAHIA provides a comprehensive and out-of-the-box platform for developing, integrating, delivering, and managing Content, Web Applications, and Web Services across intranets, extranets, and the Internet. JSX2 0.1.5 (Object Export) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112039/ In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX. K-3D 0.2.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112060/ K-3D is a 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system for GNU/Linux & Win32. Features include creation and editing of geometry in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, and texture-mapped views; unlimited undos and redos; complete extensibility at runtime through third-party plugins; animated procedural geometric effects; all parameters animatable through a consistent control-spline based interface; rendering pipeline to Renderman Interface compliant rendering engines; optimization for use with the Aqsis rendering engine, which features solid modelling, true displacement, and user programmable shaders; and support for background and batch rendering. KCachegrind 0.3a http://freshmeat.net/releases/112081/ KCachegrind visualizes traces generated by profiling, in various ways, including a TreeMap visualization of the calls happening, and a condensed version, the Coverage analysis. It's designed to be fast and to provide a quick overview of very large programs, such as KDE applications. It uses Cachegrind as profiling backend, which uses the CPU simulator in Valgrind. Thus, profiling does not need any preparation, can cope with shared libraries and plugin architectures, and allows for profile runs to not influence the measuring by the profile itself, however, the disadvantage to this is slower profile runs. Linux Test Project 20030206 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112108/ The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests. Loggerithim 6.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112102/ Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routine administration tasks. ManEdit 0.5.8 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112037/ The ManEdit UNIX Manual Page Editor is an editor specifically tailored for UNIX manual pages. It has a preview viewer, uses the manual page XML format for easy editing, and comes with a tutorial and reference guide. It uses the GTK+ widget set and features syntax highlighting, a complete drag and drop system for easy viewing and editing, a crash recovery system, and sample manual page templates. ManySMS 3.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112074/ SMS is frontend for SmsSend. Users can easily send SMS messages to many GSM telephone numbers. The numbers are written in a text file. This program is designated for use in the Czech republic (operators: Eurotel, Paegas, Oskar), but can be easily adapted for different counties. It is written in Basic. mod_injection 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112089/ mod_injection is an Apache 2.0.X filter module. It allows you to inject text in the HTTP response after a HTML tag, or after any given text string. The main intention of this module is to add a banner to several HTML pages on the fly. mon modules 2003-02-06 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112085/ mon modules is collection of modules for mon which include an advanced PostgreSQL monitor, a SAP R/3 monitor, a TCP connection and chat monitor which works through a SOCKS server, and a WAP cgi-bin client that lets you check the status of your servers using a WAP phone. N-View 2.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112069/ N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more. O-Kiraku Nikki 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112050/ 'O-Kiraku Nikki' is Japanese for 'A Nice Calendar'. It is a simple PHP program that displays a calendar on a Web site, with the ability to add as many annotations as desired to any day, and have these annotations displayed on a Web page. It can be used as a diary, a Weblog, or a scheduler, etc. It comes with full multilanguage (Unicode) support, and includes by default English, Japanese, and Spanish translations. It has been designed with both security and simplicity in mind. openSkat 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112064/ OpenSkat is an cryptographically secure implementation of the german card game Skat for multiple players over IRC (Internet Relay Chat). The fairness is based on several zero-knowledge-proofs from Christian Schindelhauers research paper "A Toolbox for Mental Card Games". It has a graphical user interface based on xskat 3.4. The modified sources are included and require an X11 environment. Packet Excalibur 1.0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112091/ Packet Excalibur is a multi-platform graphical and scriptable network packet engine with extensible text-based protocol descriptions. It is a network tool designed to build and receive custom packets. Packet Excalibur allows you to decide packet attributes from the physical layer to the top, to sniff and spoof packets with a single interface, to build scripts in the GUI, and to define additional protocols in simple text files. PHP vCard 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112044/ PHP vCard generates vCards from any data. This is useful if you have a lot contact information stored in regular databases and want to make them available to end users as comfortable as possible. vCard files are supported by many PIMs. Pluggable Images Generator 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112057/ Pluggable Images Generator (PIG) is mainly designed to create fractal images and dislay them. But since it's based on plugins, it can be used to create any type of computer generated image. ppm2html 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112048/ ppm2html is a small Linux tool that converts an RGB PPM image to an HTML page. The page will display an approximated version of the image only using ASCII characters and color definitions. The tool makes full use of 24 bit color in HTML. If a 'source string' is being defined this string will repeatedly be used as the character source for rendering the ASCII output. If omitted, random characters between 'a' and 'z' will be used. The 'red', 'green', and 'blue' values define the backgroundcolor of the HTML page. If no command line arguments are given the page is rendered black. pylibini 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111738/ pylibini is a Python module which provides powerful access and easy manipulation of .ini files in Python applications. PyTone 1.12.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112106/ PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal jukebox system for use at parties. qpopper-mysql 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112080/ qpopper-mysql is a patch to Qualcomm's qpopper POP3 daemon to enable it to do user authentication via a MySQL database, support virtual domains, support Maildir-style mailboxes, and log logins into a MySQL database for possible MTA SMTP authentication relaying use. Quake2Forge 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112104/ Quake2Forge is The QuakeForge Project's version of id Software's game, Quake II. It aims to be a stable, portable codebase focusing on improving the quality of the game whilst maintaining backwards compatibility with the original. Rain gutter 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111761/ Rain gutter is a theme based on a photo taken by octoberX. RunLaunch 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112049/ Run Launch is a GNOME program execution utility not unlike the Windows 9x "Run" facility. Features include a "Run in Terminal" facility, a file browser, program history, automatic history completion, and keyboard shortcuts. ScreenIRC 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112066/ ScreenIRC is an IRC client that lets you close the GUI without being disconnected from the IRC server. You can then reconnect later and see what has happened on the channels while you were away. sNibbles 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112092/ sNibbles is a platform independent Snake/Nibbles game. SPIKE 2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112059/ SPIKE is an attempt to write an API that helps reverse engineer new, unknown network protocols. It features several working examples. struts-wml 1.1b3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112100/ struts-wml is a WML taglib for WAP enabled devices, based on struts-html. Subconv 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112113/ Subconv converts DivX subtitles from one format to another (currently only from srt/tmplayer/microdvd to tmplayer). It can also adjust subtitle delay and split subtitles in a given time position. Sweep 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112045/ Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. The Kiwi Toolkit 1.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112042/ The Kiwi Toolkit is a foundation class library containing many useful classes that complement the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). It includes many classes and components that were not provided with the JFC, such as a TreeTable component, a DateChooser, an MVC charting package (bar charts, line charts, pie charts), a plugin framework for Java, an application resource manager (for loading images, icons, HTML pages, audio clips, and other resources from JAR files), a better internationalization API, and much more. Tk LaTeX Editor 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112027/ Tk LaTeX Editor is a powerful LaTeX editor. It supports code highlighting, a document structure navigator, a project and file manager, spellchecking, command autocompletion, and much more. TR-IRCD 5.0.5-r http://freshmeat.net/releases/112095/ TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, local channels, and autokill exclusions, modules for commands, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and many different architectures. Wcalc 1.5.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112111/ Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations. Webcpp 0.8.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112043/ Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS, DOS Batch, EMF, Euphoria, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, UnrealScript, and VHDL highlighting. WebShop 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112094/ WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop. wGui 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112034/ wGui is a simple, platform-independent dialog manager library using SDL and FreeType2. Written in C++ (with extensive use of the Standard Library and STL), the intention is to leave all of the antiquated C paradigms out of it (like #defines). Yet Another Font Installer 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112056/ Yet Another Font Installer (YAFI) is a set of programs that allow you to install TrueType and Type1 fonts for various applications like XFree, LaTeX, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Freshmeat, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.