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Unfortunately, fending off unwanted or dangerous electronic communication has become a daily struggle for many system administrators. AccuRev 3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124574/ AccuRev/CM is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use "Timesafe" SCM tool which is based on the idea that the past can't change. AccuRev/CM records all merges and patches, so you never have to re-merge the same code. It includes a truly integrated bug-tracking system, supports file and directory renaming, follows a client/server model, and is transaction-based. Servers and clients run on Unix, Linux, and Windows. There are both command line and GUI interfaces for all platforms. It includes an integrated graphical 3-way diff and merge tool. AccuRev/CM also integrates with the MS SCC API, Forte for Java, and any diff/merge tool with a command line interface. ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124555/ This project adds plugins for the lexer/parser generator ANTLR to the Eclipse platform. The plugins provide a grammar file editor with syntax highlighting, outline view and a project nature with incremental builder. AstroCam System 2.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124537/ 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. Beck's Beer Theme 0.80.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124548/ Beck's Beer Theme is based on wallpaper from becks-beer.com. Blue Rose 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124553/ Blue Rose is a blue theme with a glass rose. The background is by ANDiDAS. braa 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124544/ Braa is a tool for making SNMP queries. It is able to query hundreds or thousands of hosts simultaneously, while being completely single-threaded. It does not need any SNMP libraries, as it is equipped with its own SNMP engine. However, it's good to have a complete SNMP package including "snmptranslate" installed somewhere, because for speed reasons, there is no ASN.1 parser in Braa, and all the SNMP OIDs need to be specified numerically. CatWeasel MK3 Linux Driver 2003-05-31 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124541/ The CatWeasel MK3 Linux Driver accesses the SID and joystick features of the CatWeasel MK3 PCI by Individual Computers. You can use joysticks or paddles connected to the CatWeasel card just like any other joystick within Linux and you can use an Amiga keyboard as a second keyboard for input. If you have attached a SID chip, you can use it with various software like VICE and SIDplayer. If you want to use the floppy features please use Michael Krause's Floppy CatWeasel Driver. Columba 0.10.1 (stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124551/ Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book. CoverViewer 0.1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124581/ CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name. Cream 21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124570/ Cream is a simple but solid cross-language, cross-platform, client/server-based synchronous remote procedure call (RPC) toolkit, similar to (but incompatible with) XML/RPC, SOAP, and Web Services. DC-GUI 0.2.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124583/ DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client. Disc-Cover 1.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124540/ Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB or CDINDEX database to build a back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi, PDF, Postscript, HTML, plain ASCII, or any other format suited for cdlabelgen. Distant Ecosystems 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124521/ Distant Ecosystems is a silver-grey theme with trees and circles. The background is by netghost (Adam Sanderson). Dodge This 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124488/ Dodge This is a theme based on a screen capture from the first Matrix movie combined with the classic "matrix waterfall" and a little work with the Gimp. Fast IRC Stats Generator 0.3.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124580/ Fast IRC Stats Generator (FISG) creates HTML pages with statistics about IRC logs. It has less features than some alternatives, but is much faster and can be run on low-end systems. It supports Irssi and Eggdrop log files. Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124568/ Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for embedded systems. Firepass 1.0.2a http://freshmeat.net/releases/124535/ Firepass is a tunneling tool allowing users bypass firewall restrictions and encapsulate data flows inside legal ones that use HTTP POST requests. TCP or UDP based protocols may be tunneled with Firepass. GLT OpenGL C++ Toolkit 0.8 rc2 (Release Candidates) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124558/ Glt is a library of C++ classes and routines for programming interactive 3D graphics with OpenGL. The aim of Glt is to augment the OpenGL API with convenient mechanisms for manipulating the OpenGL state machine. Glt is a work in progress, and by no means covers the entire OpenGL specification. However, it already includes several useful classes and is designed so that additional classes can be added easily. In addition to Glt, the GlutMaster classes provide C++ wrappers for the GLUT API. Goggles 0.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124573/ Goggles is a frontend for the Ogle DVD player. It supports all the features that Ogle provides, including bookmarks, and adds automatic starting, automatic bookmarks, a convenient preferences panel for setting keyboard shortcuts, DXR3 settings, and language and country preferences. It is written in C++ using the FOX Toolkit. gpppwrap 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124585/ gpppwrap is a graphical user interface to conveniently select a phone number and dial into your ISP. It's very convenient if you use different ISPs, and is based on the GTK GUI libraries. It is only a wrapper around the ppp-on/ppp-off scripts and gives you therefore still the power and flexibility of these scripts. It is written for people who like the power and flexibility of shell and Perl scripts, and also want an idiot-proof way to connect to the Internet. Header Browser 0.8.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124539/ Header Browser helps you to create documentation from your C/C++ header files. It is similar to JavaDoc, Doc++, or KDoc, but it doesn't just create documentation pages; it allows you to really browse your APIs using a five columns view like NeXT's HeaderViewer. IMMS 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124575/ IMMS is an intelligent playlist plug-in for XMMS that tracks your listening patterns and adapts itself to your taste. It is incredibly unobtrusive and easy to use as it requires no direct user interaction. Ion 20030531 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124560/ Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard. IOzone 3.181 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124576/ IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems. Java FTP client library 1.2.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124554/ Java FTP client library allows any Java application to have full embedded FTP functionality. It includes a straightforward but comprehensive API with functions such as put (), get(), chdir(), dir() and pwd(). Active and passive modes are supported. KAVmailcheck 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124545/ KAVmailcheck is a sendmail filter that uses the milter API to check incoming mail for viruses using the Kaspersky Lab AVP kavdaemon. KisMAC 0.04e http://freshmeat.net/releases/124566/ KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely invisible and sends no probe requests. Linux Napster Client 1.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124562/ Linux Napster Client is one of the oldest Napster clients available. It is a fully-featured Napster client with a text-based interface. Linux Napster Client runs under Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Cygwin32. MaraDNS 1.0.18 (Recursive/Caching) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124569/ MaraDNS is a DNS server that strives to be secure and fully open-sourced. Mojo Mail 2.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124592/ Mojo Mail is a light-weight Web-based email mailing list manager. It supports announce-only lists and group discussion lists, as well as archiving, double opt-in subscriptions, and double opt-out unsubscriptions. List mailings can be sent using sendmail, qmail, or even with a straight SMTP connection (either all at once, or in timed batches). All list administration can be done through your browser via Mojo Mail's administrative control panel. Creating new lists and administrating them is easy. Mojo Mail is a great alternative to programs such as Majordomo if you want to give more control to the actual list owners, who may not have much experience with such applications. Mojo Mail can be run simply as a CGI script and needs no special modules installed. The entire look of html pages created by Mojo Mail can be customized with any template you can provide, on a list by list basis. MozPlugger 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124582/ MozPlugger 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. NanoBlogger 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124440/ NanoBlogger is a small and minimalist blogger written in Bash script. It's designed to be a simple and fast solution for creating and managing blog entries that can be uploaded to a Web site as a simple text file. It is not a complete Weblog engine, but rather an aid in the creation and maintenance of a blog site's entries. nefu 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124556/ nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services over the network. It uses a "no false alarms" fault verification algorithm, and understands network dependancies. Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), DNS, HTTP, POP, NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web. Nessus 2.0.6a http://freshmeat.net/releases/124587/ Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 1200 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems. netcount 0.7e http://freshmeat.net/releases/124563/ netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd. Open Guestbook 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124571/ Open Guestbook is a fully featured PHP Guestbook script powered by MySQL on backend. It has an enourmous amount of features, including Avatars, Smilies, Guestbook Code, Quote Reply, an Administrative Area to manage Guestbook and delete/edit entries, and more. It is also fully customizable via the Admin area and stylesheets. OpenLoad Tester 3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124531/ OpenLoad is an easy-to-use browser-based, rapid performance optimization solution for load and stress testing of dynamic Web sites. It uses IBM WebSphere and the DB2 Universal Database, and is fully integrated with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer. It substantially minimizes the time and skill set required to optimize the performance of Web-based applications by simplifying the process of building real-world user scenarios, verifying expected functional behavior, and pinpointing performance bottlenecks within Web applications and IT infrastructure. Picture Gallery 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124525/ Picture Gallery is both a standalone and easily-integrated Web application. It features unlimited categories, subcategories, and pictures; hit tracking on categories and pictures; automatic resizing of pictures larger than the maximum width and height (preserves aspect ratio); and automatic thumbnail generation. It has a powerful search engine that uses CSS for easy customization. It has support for hidden categories, and can rotate images 90/180/270 degrees or re-order categories. It plugs into an existing Web site account system. procps 3.1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124579/ procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values. RLPlot 0.97b http://freshmeat.net/releases/124564/ RLPlot is a scientific plotting, charting, and drawing program. Data is entered into a spreadsheet manually or by copy from a spreadsheet program (Excel, KSpread, etc.) and pasted to RLPlot. Plots are created and modified by a fully-interactive graphical user interface. RLPlot is fully vector-oriented, ensuring high-quality outputs. Scraper 1.33 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124538/ Scraper is designed to scrape the Web for information. It is very easy to use. singapore 0.9.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124557/ singapore is a flexible PHP image gallery that stores information in a CSV-file database. It has a Web-based admin and cached autogenerated thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). Its output is XHTML- and CSS-compatible. SiteBar 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124552/ SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common to file explorers, and supports FavIcons. Vstr string library 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124567/ Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string, and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions (among others). Web Secretary 1.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124543/ Web Secretary is a web page monitoring software. However, it goes beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to you with the new contents highlighted. WITS 0.1.26 (beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124572/ WITS is an inventory tracking and point of sale implementation done in PHP using a MySQL server as a backend. It is designed with the small to medium sized consignment retailer in mind, and supports tracking of clients, consignees, inventory, tickets, payments, salespeople, tickets, gift certificates, and layaways. It automatically handles percentage commission calculations for consignees and salespersons, and supports split salesperson commission (for multiple salespersons working on a single ticket). WITS also supports modules for expandable functionality, and includes a dynamic report generator capable of advanced queries. X-ChaMan 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124593/ X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine. XDrawChem 1.7.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124561/ XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H NMR, 13C NMR, simple IR spectra, and estimated pKa. XDrawChem can work with its native file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported by OpenBabel (MDL Molfile, CML, 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.