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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/freshmeat2_10.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- February 17, 2003 Freshmeat Latest Updates Ace Operator 1.1.0b http://freshmeat.net/releases/113235/ Ace Operator is an instant messaging call-center solution that can be accessed from Web pages. Using this product, online service providers can easily add a "live help" button to any or all of their Web pages, which gives online customers access to company representatives and allows them to exchange information in real-time. AdaSockets 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113222/ AdaSockets is a library that lets you use sockets in Ada 95. It supports unicast and multicast sockets, and uses object oriented structures to ease sockets manipulation. Averist 1.7.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113177/ Averist is a module that adds an authentication layer to any CGI application written in Perl. It supports initial authentication through CGI (form), and it can use CGI (hidden form fields) or cookies for reauthentication after a configurable timeout. It can also use an SQL database or DBM file for storing session tickets for increased security. The username and password check at the initial authentication can be done via a DBM file, an LDAP directory, NIS, an SQL database, or a passwd-style file. Averist is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion. BlaXXtarZ 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113175/ BlaXXtarZ is a theme with rounded tiles. BookmarkBridge 0.55 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113227/ BookmarkBridge is a small, easy to use, multi-platform, GUI-based utility that allows the user to share bookmarks between all their browsers. The user runs it periodically to synchronize between the browsers. cvsd 0.9.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113239/ cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories. Damascus 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113182/ Damascus is a GTK+ 2.x client for the Gale communication protocol. It is somewhat modelled after IM/ICQ-style interfaces. If you don't know what Gale is, this client probably won't be very useful; you need a valid Gale key to send anything, and Damascus can't generate them (yet). Gale is also scary and confusing. Darius Tools 1.1 (Sound) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113165/ Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages according to different categories. Enemies of Carlotta 0.18 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113233/ Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman. EzSDK 4.53 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113218/ EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more. fbdump 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113179/ fbdump is a simple tool to capture snapshots from the Linux kernel framebuffer device and write them out as a PPM file. Currently, most packed-pixel framebuffer formats and the vga16 framebuffer are supported. FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113197/ FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more. Freeoxyd 0.70 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113217/ Enigma is a reimplementation of Oxyd, a puzzle game that was very popular on the Atari ST and later on the PC. Equipped with a little black marble, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of Oxyd stones. GOPchop 0.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113183/ GOPchop is an MPEG2-PS editor that cuts on GOP boundries so that the resulting MPEG2-PS file does not need to be re-encoded when saving the resulting desired frames. It is useful for editing commercials out of MPEG2 TV capture files. GRAMPS 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113173/ Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python. Greenwich 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113229/ Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl. GtkTerm 0.99.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113237/ GtkTerm is a serial port terminal written in GTK+ . It is a clone of the famous Hyperterminal. The port can be set up, and the control signal can be toggled. It also supports file transfers and an hexadecimal view of the data. IceCrack 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113201/ IceCrack is a simple theme based on the TigertCrack theme for Metacity. It was designed to match the colors of the PrettyOkayish GTK theme. im-stats 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113164/ im-stats produces HTML statistics from Trillian logs. Impact 0.2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113247/ 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. Jacksum 1.2.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113246/ Jacksum is a free checksum utility written entirely in Java. It supports most common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, Unix System V sum, and Whirlpool). Recursive file processing is supported. Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113206/ Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP header control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, (experimental) upload limits, VPNs (like vtun), ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script. jGal D1 [2003-02-15] http://freshmeat.net/releases/113174/ jGal is a Perl script that generates static XHTML image galleries, along with thumbnails and slides, from image files. It's derived from iGal. kbilliards 0.4b (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113226/ Kbilliards is a pool game entirely written using Qt/KDE. It supports a neat and customizable physics system. leads4web 3.0.1.2 (beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113215/ leads4web is a very customizable, multilingual, Web-based Customer Relationship Management solution. It supports different users and roles, comes with email support, customer/companies management, todos, calendar, CR, and Projects Management. Less 381 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113187/ Less is a program similar to more, i.e. a terminal based program for viewing text files and the output from other programs. Less offers many features beyond those that more does. For instance, it allows backward movement in the files as well as forward. Looper Event / Alert System 0.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113250/ Looper is a highly modularized application designed to simplify the event / alert model. Primarily used for Network Management, this application can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks related to logging and alerting such as listening for SNMP traps and logging to a file or sending notification to Netcool (a la "trapd probe"), reading a log file for alerts and sending notification via e-mail, parsing syslogs and sending notifications to Netcool (a la "syslog probe"), etc. Looper can also be used as an ad-hoc Netcool probe or Gateway. Lyrictracker X 4.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113205/ Lyrictracker X is a Mac OS X application which allows you to find and download song lyrics. It also features functionality to download lyrics to your iPod, submit lyrics to the database, and chat with other users. man-pages-ja 20030215 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113180/ man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications. MonAlbum 0.8.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113200/ MonAlbum is a PHP and MySQL based photo album. Mosfet replacement image loader for Konqueror 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113213/ This is a replacement for the Konqueror Web browser's image loader. It is aimed at dialup and/or PixiePlus users and adds incremental image loading for JPEG, GIF, PNG, and some BMPs. It features checking if the image being downloaded is a duplicate, canceling if so, and the ability to save directly to your hard disk without the file dialog. nMicrocoder 0.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113242/ nMicrocoder is an ncurses EDA tool to write microcode. Basically it is a stripped-down spreadsheet program which lets you fill a tabular layout with "0", "1", and "-", and gives you compile-ready verilog-code in return. photom 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113231/ photom is a collection of programs designed to take raw, instrumental measurements of stellar brightness and convert them to calibrated magnitudes on some standard system. They were written as part of the TASS Mark IV pipeline, but may work on other datasets. PHPReports 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113211/ PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report. PHPX 2.2.4 (Release) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113243/ PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site. Plugger for Mozilla 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113169/ Plugger for Mozilla is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL. PowerDNS daemon 2.9.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113212/ PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK. PrettyBlueish 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113202/ PrettyBlueish is a theme based on the thinice engine. It is a modification of the PrettyOkayish theme to match the colors of Mozilla's modern theme. There is also a matching IceWM theme, IceCrack. ProjectForum 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113240/ Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum, collaboration, or intranet software, ProjectForum lets you build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming, and more. PTlink Services 2.22.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113198/ PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering. rb.log 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113216/ rb.log is a full-featured weblogger written in Ruby. It features file uploads, comments, blog- rolling, side-bar editing, bookmarklets, the Blogger API, searching, RSS syndication, and archives. It also performs well on slower machines by regenerating static pages after posts are made. Renaissance 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113191/ GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface. Scintilla 1.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113195/ Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts. SciTE 1.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113196/ SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or Python. Simple Python Blogger 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113223/ Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste. skaMenu 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113186/ skaMenu is a menu browser. It's controlled with an LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) device, and it's very configurable through the use of an XML configuration file. It supports TrueType fonts and antialiasing, and the output is done with the pygame library. SMATCH 0.39 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113184/ SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information. SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113249/ SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot, etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent packages such as those of KDE and GNOME. Spamcup 1.02 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113236/ Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline. Text::BarGraph 0.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113244/ Text::BarGraph is a simple Perl module for generating ASCII bar graphs based on data in a hash, where the keys are labels and the values are magnitudes. It automatically scales the graph to fit on your terminal screen. It is very useful in making data more meaningful. For example, it can be used with statistics gathered from a log file. The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2003-02-15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113185/ The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection. toolame 02k http://freshmeat.net/releases/113204/ Toolame is an optimized MPEG-1/2 Layer II audio encoder based upon the ISO demonstration source code that borrows heavily from the LAME project, as well as introducing new optimizations and additional features such as VBR. TOra 1.3.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113210/ TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA management tools. TOSVCD 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113192/ tosvcd is a small C++ utility that can take one or more recorded VDR files and transcode them to one or more SVCD image files ready to burn with cdrdao. Video Disk Recorder 1.1.24 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113189/ Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more. XFMail 1.5.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113232/ XFMail is X11 application for receiving electronic mail. It was created using XForms library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars. It's partially compatible with MH style mail- boxes but it does not require any mh tools to be installed on the system. You can read most of your MH folders and messages. It has a very friendly user interface and it's extremely easy in use. It implements most of the mail functionality in one program and it does not require any additional tools. It will run on most UNIX variants, as well as OS/2 (with the emx libraries and XFree86). It is also available in Gentoo Portage. Zorbstats 0.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113228/ ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats, and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
