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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Etnus TotalView, The World's Best C/C++ Debugger Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. But TotalView shows you hierarchical class derivation, gives you superior support for templates, handles shared libraries and DLLs, lets you test fixes on the fly, and much more. Try TotalView 6 for free at www.etnus.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 04, 2003 Freshmeat Latest Updates abcm2ps 3.4.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115008/ abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music. Access Modifier Eclipse Plug-in 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115007/ The AccessModifier Plug-in for Eclipse allows the user to change the visibility (public, protected, default, and private) of Java classes, interfaces, methods, and fields in the workbench's Outline, Members, and Package Explorer views. Apache Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115037/ The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up. ARSC Really Simple Chat 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114998/ ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL. It works with every browser in existence, even text-based ones, and it uses the server push technique or, if possible, its own socket server. It is very simple to install and use ARSC. It includes some important features, such as operators, kick-ing, whispering, and more. Multiple rooms and different languages are available. To run ARSC on your site, you need a Web server that understands PHP, and can connect to a MySQL database. Axualize 1.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115001/ Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please. Babeldoc 1.0RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115055/ Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints. bk_edit 0.6-10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115043/ bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and organize the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape. CanIt 1.10 (Pro) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115012/ 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 1.10 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115011/ 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. cdrtools 2.01a04 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114979/ cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers. CLEX 3.1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114986/ CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in C with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file status details) and provides features like command history, filename insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands). CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the on-line help. colorize.pl 0.3.3 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114970/ colorize.pl is a Perl script to colorize your system, Squid, Apache, oops, xfer, and many other logs with file, version, address, URL, email, user, service, etc. catch routines. HTML output support with "valid" HTML and CSS code is available. Custom 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114980/ Custom is an E-Commerce system providing Ordering and Invoicing, Stock, Supplier, and Catalogue Management. Easily customisable, it is written in Python for use as CGI scripts (under Apache or any other Web server) with a simple example site and example database. Custom is intended as a modern replacement for Sage. DigitizeIt 1.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114992/ DigitizeIt digitizes scanned graphs and charts. Graphs can be loaded in nearly all common image formats (including gif, tiff, jpeg, bmp, png, psd, pcx, xbm, xpm, tga, pct), pasted from the clipboard, or imported via a screenshot. Digitizing of line and scatter plots occurs automatically, and manual digitizing via mouse clicks is also possible. Data values are transformed to a specified axes system and can be saved in ASCII format, ready to use in many other applications such as Microcal Origin or Excel. Axes can be linear, logarithmic, or reciprocal scale. Multiple data sets can be defined and edited. Tilted and distorted graphs can be handled. Comprehensive online help is included. Java 1.4 is required. DoubleSpeak CMS 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115036/ DoubleSpeak (formerly known as Igloo Weblog) is a CMS/Blog written to be robust yet user-friendly. The aim is to create clean and efficient code while providing many features and an easy way to add new ones. DoubleSpeak is written entirely in Object-Oriented PHP. dvd::rip 0.50.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114996/ dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools. E-Xoops Theme for Window Maker 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114965/ E-Xoops is a theme dedicated to the E-Xoops CMS that features a simple background with E-Xoops logo, and some grey/blue icons. echolot-pinger 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115014/ Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by regularly sending messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use. Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients. Fuse CMS 0.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115002/ Fuse is a Content Management System, born as a PHP-Nuke clone, designed to take advantage of mod_perl and HTML::Mason's features, including template and theme creation, compilation and caching of code, and extendability. gnocl 0.5.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115028/ gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package. GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115029/ GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing. gURLChecker 0.2-0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115042/ gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page. Gwine 0.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115022/ Gwine is a GNOME wine cellar manager written in Perl. Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.4-dev http://freshmeat.net/releases/115030/ Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) comprises an XML schema for historical events, and xslt/Java, which transforms conforming documents into useful and possibly new views, including charts, time-lines, and maps generated in SVG. It is not meant to be the one and only language for marking up historical events, however it does aim to be a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add an historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.' IlohaMail 0.7.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115015/ IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity logging. JFreeReport 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114975/ JFreeReport is a Java report generator. Using data from a Swing TableModel, JFreeReport can send output to the screen (print preview), the printer, and to Acrobat PDF files. JPluck 0.9 beta 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115053/ JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read. JSX2 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114972/ 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. KAVClient 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114981/ KAVClient is a C language interface to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus daemon. It allows users to check files and memory for viruses. KDE Kontact 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114977/ KDE Kontact is a personal information management application for KDE. It integrates KMail, KAddressBook, and KOrganizer into a unified application. kowey-generic 9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115005/ kowey-generic is a set of Java templates for small programming projects in single languages. The goal is to provide a simple way to make highly portable and nicely distributable software that "just works". These templates allow you produce packages that the user simply downloads and runs. No mess, no fuss, no nonsense with the CLASSPATH. These templates also help developers to adopt better coding habits, as the default buildfile auto-generates unit test skeletons via JUnitDoclet. lftp 2.6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114978/ lftp is a sophisticated command line based FTP client. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneosly or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. HTTP protocol and FTP over HTTP proxy are supported. Version 2.3.0 includes HTTPS and FTP over SSL support. makeself 2.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114969/ makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world. mtools 3.9.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114997/ Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks, and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2" disk). MUSCLE 2.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114971/ MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed. myPod 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115027/ myPod is a platform-independent program to manage your MP3 collection, create playlists, and synchronize them with an iPod. MySQL Database Server 4.0.11 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115034/ MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. Nebulus 0.4.0 (For XMMS) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115048/ Nebulus is an OpenGL/SDL visual plugin for XMMS or AlsaPlayer. It features a lot of options, including fullscreen mode, effects priorities, and more. NNTPSwitch 0.07 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114983/ NNTPSwitch is a Linux NNTP content router. It's aimed at high-performance news servers for ISPs and Usenet resellers. NNTPSwitch forwards client connections to multiple backend servers to get its actual articles. Depending on the backend server type, all NNTP commands and extensions are supported, including (remote) authorization. Accounting is supported in a user-friendly matter for data limited NNTP connections. PassGuard Framework 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114990/ PassGuard Framework is a library for the PassGuard suite of programs that is used to manage numerous passwords in an encrypted file. Encryption is managed with a plugin system, which allows easy support for any kind of encrypted file. PassGuard gpasman plugin 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114991/ The PassGuard suite is a set of software that manages your passwords encrypted in a file. You just have to remember one, and different encrypted file formats are supported via plugins. The PassGuard gpasman plugin is the plugin that manages gpasman files encrypted with the RC2 algorithm. pekwm 0.1.3pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114933/ pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++ but it no longer resembles it. It is highly configurable and rather fast. You can group windows in a sense much like pwm. Keybindings, Rootmenu, mouse button actions, and automatic properties are configurable. phpSecurityAdmin 3.0b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115033/ phpSecurityAdmin is a PHP application that was designed to be implemented in custom Content Management Systems (CMS). It is designed to be easy to use, so that CMS programmers do not have to spend a lot of time managing user access. It can be used for controlling access to Web pages based on user names and passwords. The system allows the client to manage user accounts and access rights, and to add, edit, or delete users. It also features "user profiles" which provide an efficient method for creating multiple users with similar access rights. It includes localization support and a few language translations. phpWebSite 0.9.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115019/ phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, and much more. python-evas 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114973/ python-evas is a set of object-oriented Python bindings for the Evas canvas. Complete wrappers for Evas objects are provided, with an easy to use API resembling Evas' native C interfaces. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115041/ QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API. qmail-ldap 20030301 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115023/ qmail-ldap is an extension to stock qmail-1.03 to get all user account information from an LDAP database. Its primary target is POP toasters with thousands to millions of users, such as in ISP, FreeMail, and Corporate environments. It features full SMTP/POP3/IMAP server clustering for scaling and high availablity. Additionally there are state-of-the art spam filters, TLS SMTP encrytion, and mailbox quotas. A migration path for Netscape Messenger and Software.com's Post.Office installations is provided. RefDB 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115050/ RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents. This is an attempt to provide most of the functionality of commercial packages like Reference Manager or EndNote in a platform-independent tool, targeting markup languages rather than word processors. Seahorse 0.7.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115016/ Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface. Sendmail 8.12.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115032/ Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration. shell watchdog 1.1-2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115009/ The shell watchdog is a simple shell script daemon to monitor system resources and report failures via local syslog, wall, mail, console sound, or user-definable actions. It is intended to be used as a simple failure recognition system. Tests are defined in a macro-like style in user-definable files, allowing you to create monitored resource groups. It currently includes tests to check the availability of an IP address, the availability of a service on a local or remote IP address, whether a process is running or not, and the usage of filesystems. Smart Cache 0.84 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115046/ Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents, Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode, background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers inside). SMTP Relay Checker 0.9.5b http://freshmeat.net/releases/115000/ SmtpRC is a fully configurable, multithreaded open mail relay scanner. It supports scanning of IP blocks, and can print the results to a Web page. It is intended for Systems Administrators to check IP blocks under their control. snortalog 1.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114985/ Snortalog (formerly known as Snort-ng) is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts. It does not include a database for maximum performance. Speex 1.0rc3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114974/ Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail). streamtuner 0.9.1 (World Cup) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115020/ streamtuner is a stream directory browser. It offers an intuitive and unified interface to various streaming directories through the use of a plugin system. streamtuner implements a GTK+ 2.0 graphical user interface, and the official distribution ships with the SHOUTcast plugin. tvmet 0.9.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114982/ This Tiny Vector and Matrix template library uses Meta Templates and Expression Templates (ET) to evaluate results at compile time, thus making it fast for low-end systems. Temporaries are avoided because of this. The produced code is similar to hand-coded code, but the quality of the code still depends on the compiler and its version. The dimensions for vectors and matrices are static and bounded at compile time using template arguments. Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114976/ Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse provides an editor for the scripting language of Jakarta's template engine Velocity. The editor is implemented as an plugin for the Eclipse platform. Voodoo chat 0.14.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114994/ Voodoo chat is a fast, convenient, easily customized Web chat system with the ability to continuously update the user messages (push). It has 4 different ways of displaying messages: a Perl-daemon for continuous update, PHP-stream, Java-script emulation of stream, and classic refresh style. It features theme support, configurable rooms, private messages, ignoring, user-status, a mini-mail system, inline images, graphical statistics, user-info, language packs, and more. Several data storage engines are available, including ones based on files, SysV shared memory, and MySQL. It has been tested on a real server with up to 360 simultaneous users. Webtop 1.47 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115006/ Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes SSL encryption, many email filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, fast searching, undeliverable email bounce, intelligent read receipts, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, online file storage, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need. X-ChaMan 0.5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115026/ X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display a simple GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer. Xnee's not an event emulator 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114968/ Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X (X11) protocol data. This is useful for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications. Think of it as a robot. Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114988/ Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages. Zoinks 0.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115045/ Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
