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You know the one, where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG). Ajaqs 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126071/ Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services. Amrita VPN 0.97 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126063/ Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication. Artima SuiteRunner 1.0 Beta 6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126042/ Artima SuiteRunner is a testing toolkit for Java that can be used with JUnit to run existing JUnit test suites, or standalone to create unit and conformance tests for Java APIs. The advantages it offers to JUnit users include reporters, run paths, and recipe files. Bauk 1.77 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126092/ Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, server hostname aliases, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, a multiprocess architecture, flexibility, and much more. bes-cms 0.3-cvs http://freshmeat.net/releases/125725/ bes-cms is a multiuser Content Management System. It is also an application server; you can embed bes-cms in bes-cms just by creating a user. It comes with four default themes. Bontmia 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125995/ Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed files take up space when generating snapshots because of the use of hard links. Remote access is secure by using SSH. Only changes are transferred, which makes for a fast backup. buildpkg 0.0.2r28d http://freshmeat.net/releases/126090/ Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux, Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported. Date::Manip 5.40.epa1 (Unofficial) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126080/ Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think of rather than those operations used routinely by computers. deadline A http://freshmeat.net/releases/126060/ deadline shows you the time remaining until the deadline of your most important project. Enca 0.99.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126069/ Enca detects the encoding of text files, on the basis of knowledge of their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, allowing you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode variants, independently on language. Gambas 0.58 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126089/ Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for. GBuffy 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126053/ GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes that have new mail, and you can display the message headers by pressing mouse button one on a mailbox. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes, as well as displaying X-Face headers. Gnu Aqua Special Edition 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126048/ Gnu Aqua Special Edition is a theme based on gnububble and bluebubble, with ideas from AquaGraphite and AquaLightBlue. It is meant to replace all of them by concentrating on the strength of some and eliminating the weakness of others. IceWM 1.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126084/ IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps. JXPath 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126077/ JXPath is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with DOM. Kanatest 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126093/ Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided. Libvc 003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126044/ Libvc is a vCard library which was written using 'flex' and 'bison'. It handles scanning a vCard file, parsing the vCard file into a data storage structure, manipulating the data storage structure, and writing the structure back to a file. It was originally written for 'rolo', but has been split off for general use. mailgraph 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126068/ Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail. MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.10.0 for Linux 2.4.21 (Linux 2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126087/ MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration. In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use. NetBeans IDE 3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126046/ NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in Java. It supports development in Java, and support for other languages can be added. The whole IDE is built around a core framework with APIs, and features are implemented in the form of plugin modules. This clean, modular architecture makes NetBeans a good platform for building development tools and custom IDEs. OBit 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126062/ OBit is an orbit-like theme. Partition Image 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126043/ Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility similar to Symantec's Ghost. This uility saves partitions in the EXT2, Reiserfs, NTFS, HPFS, FAT16, and FAT32 file system formats to an image file. The image file can be compressed with gzip or bzip2 in order to save disk space, and it can be split in order to fit onto a series of floppy disks. This program can be useful for backup purposes. A boot/root disk is also provided, allowing you to run Partition Image without Linux installed on the hard disk. peksystray 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126029/ peksystray is a notification area (system tray) dockapp. It uses the freedesktop.org protocol, is similar to GNOME's Notification Area applet, and works with the pekwm harbour, the Window Maker dock, and the AfterStep wharf. PhonoRipper 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126061/ PhonoRipper aims to be an easy-to-handle all-in-one GUI tool for creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records. The main parts are just graphical frontends to well-known commandline programs, so some dependencies must be fulfilled to run PhonoRipper. English and German versions are available. Projet free-EOS 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125812/ free-EOS (Espace Ouvert de Services) is a project which aims to distribute and document a free and open technical solution for Multi-media Space. It is implemented with a Linux-based server and workstations that run either Windows, Linux, or MacOS. It is meant to be like the French software, Espaces Publics Numériques. It targets environments that are managed by organizers that do not have significant technical competency. It acts like an adaptation of the SME Server solution that is specifically dedicated to French-speaking environments. Proxy-applet 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126040/ Proxy-applet is a GNOME tray applet for changing your network proxy configuration with a single click, in a manner similar to Galeon 1.x. pygame 1.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126081/ Pygame is a set of Python extension modules designed for writing games. The core of pygame is wrapped on top of the SDL library. Python SAP RFC module 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126054/ The Python SAP RFC module enables programming remote function calls from SAP ERP systems. It enables SAP-compatible data definitions in Python (both simple and complex datatypes like structures and internal tables can be defined from within Python and manipulated like normal Python datatypes) and features transparent value conversion from SAP to Python and vice versa. It needs the SAP librfc shared library. Quark 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126056/ Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Gstreamer to play music. It features a front-end that sits in your system tray. sa-exim-stats 0.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126073/ sa-exim-stats generates spam/mail statistics from an sa-exim logfile. sa-exim is a patch for Exim which integrates SpamAssassin into Exim. The script's output includes: total spam messages, total clean messages, spam percentage, top n spam/clean/overal recipients. The script is designed so that it doesn't have to scan the entire logfile everytime it is run (status can be saved to a file or in a MySQL database). It can create and update a RRD database, and some basic PHP pages to display the graphs are included. SiEd 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126078/ SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as what existing editors there are do not take full advantage of the keyboard. Skaringa r2p1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126058/ Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed. The Gimp 1.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126091/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. The HTML Inclusion Tool 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125984/ The HTML Inclusion Tool is a simple but powerful preprocessor for HTML pages that can run as a CGI application or a standalone tool. It is intended to be used with HTML, but can be used to process any kind of textual data. It features access to environment variables, file inclusion, string mainpulation functions, and a Berkley DB interface. TopLight 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126051/ TopLight is designed to aid lighting designers and electricians in the theatre. It facilitates the quick setup of pipes and whole theatres, auto-numbering of circuits, auto-patching, and other things you don't want do but have to. Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126057/ Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols (TECP) is a tutorial and visualization environment for public key cryptography. It is intended for students of cryptography courses and can be used to improve understanding of modular arithmetic-based public key algorithms, and for lecturers who want to add some life to boring blackboard-and-chalk presentations about the topic. viPlugin 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126076/ viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.). Walker 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126075/ Walker is a Python script that updates entire Web sites. It matches the remote site to your local copy using FTP. Once you set it up, it will upload any files that have changed in size, delete any remote files you have deleted locally, and create any remote dirs you have added locally. It will never delete a remote directory. Walker allows you to update your entire site by going online and then running one command in a terminal. It can be run silently, or with minimal messages to indicate progress, or in a verbose mode that reports all actions taken. WebUserPrefs 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126065/ WebUserPrefs is a Web-based editor for SpamAssassin user preferences. It is written in PHP and supports whitelist and blacklist directives, as well as others through a simple plugin architecture. WordNet-Similarity 0.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126047/ WordNet-Similarity is a collection of Perl modules for the WordNet system. They are designed as object classes with methods that take two word senses as input and return the semantic relatedness of these word senses. wxBase 2.4.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126096/ wxBase contains most of the non-GUI classes from the wxWindows cross-platform C++ framework. There are 2 categories: generally useful portable code (date/time handling, command line parsing, regular expression support) and wrappers for the OS objects (files, directories, sockets, threads, etc.) allowing you to write portable programs easily. YASP 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126095/ YASP is a simple and open protocol for building networks with small microcontrollers. It is designed to have a small footprint for easy implementation with minimal hardware resources, but without sacrifice advanced features and future growth. The protocol scalability is implemented using variable length fields. The physical layer use the NRZ encoding as in RS-232, but using dominant and recessive bus states to provide a reliable way to detect collisions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
