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The power of Archetypes is first in automatically generating forms, second in providing a library of stock field types, form widgets, and field validators, third in easily integrating custom fields, widgets, and validators, and fourth in automating transformations of rich content. Automated Password Generator 2.3.0b (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132094/ Automated Password Generator is a set of tools for random password generation including a standalone password generator, an RFC972 password generation server, and a Perl client for the password generation server. These feature a built-in X9.17 random number generator, and 35 modes of password generation, including pronounceable password generation. AutoUpdate 5.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132116/ AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date. bBlog 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132160/ bBlog is a weblogging application written in PHP. It has been programmed to be fast, secure, object-oriented, well-commented, Smarty-centric, and easily extendable. Be4gle 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132091/ Be4gle is a Web services layer for relational databases. It allows applications to access data via SOAP, without having to program a single line of code. If the SOAP client is a Web browser, it also serves HTML, generated from meta-data, in parallel with the XML so that unfamiliar data can be browsed effortlesly. For updating data, XML templates are parsed and served as Web forms. bonnie 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132121/ bonnie is a classic file system and storage device benchmark. It tests for linear character-based and block-based reads and writes, and the rewrite pattern. It also does a seek test. While other benchmarks do more sophisticated tests, bonnie is a very reliable and portable program that is suitable for basic testing. Optionally, you can test the operations with direct I/O (O_DIRECT on Linux). cammgr 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132139/ Cammgr manages a collection of web cameras. It will bring cameras online or offline, and initiate or suspend image capture operations. Any camera can be controlled provided a driver is available. Cammgr supports multiple images per camera, default images for inactive cameras, per- user/host/camera notifications, and an easy-to- use configuration file. It can scan Apache log files to auto-initiate image capture, and tune capture frequency can to the minimum needed to ensure that clients receive a new image on request. Compact Disc Input and Control Library 0.62 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132103/ The Compact Disc Input and Control library encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library. Some support for disk image types like BIN/CUE and NRG is available, so applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc images as though they were CDs. A sample utility for displaying CD info is included. Contentment Web Content Manager 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132127/ The Contentment Web Content Manager is a simple web content management system. It is intended to be easy to use, and is for people who want to quickly update pages. Once installed, a person can simply alter the design and content of the site through HTML forms. CVS Monitor 0.6.3 Beta 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132113/ CVS Monitor is a Perl CGI application for monitoring activity in a CVS repository. It is somewhat similar in purpose to cvsweb, but far more useful when you just want to keep an eye on development, allow management/clients to see what is happening, or provide the public with a view into the project. CWirc 1.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132128/ CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder. Defend the Kingdom 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132126/ Defend The Kingdom, or Defender for short, is a real time strategy game dedicated to the fantastic world of LARP. Its goals include the ability to build and control a complete fantasy world (with towns, poeple, etc.), control armies of knights and creatures to fight against your strongest enemies, gain power and resources by trading with your friends, and many more. dialog-mp3-list 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132154/ dialog-mp3-list generates an organized list of your directory of MP3 CDs. It shows a numbered list of MP3s with information on their encoding speed and track lengths. It uses Dialog/XDialog and Latex to create lists in .tex, .ps, and .pdf formats, and uses Brazilian Portuguese. ECCS 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132145/ ECCS (Encrypted Chat Client/Server) provides an easy-to-use, nearly configuration-free peer-to-peer chat system. Two or more people can be connected on a partyline, and encryption is used to protect transferred data. Big networks can very easily be made by connecting ECCS. Etherboot 5.2.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132100/ Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, and Hammer machines over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. DHCP and tftp. ffproxy 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132118/ ffproxy is a filtering HTTP proxy server. It is able to filter by host, URL, and header. Custom header entries can be filtered and added. It can even drop its privileges and optionally chroot() to some directory. Logging to syslog() is supported, as is using another auxiliary proxy server. Contacting IPv6 servers as well as binding to IPv6 is supported and allows transparent IPv6 over IPv4 browsing (and vice versa). freepia 0.3.7-pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132110/ Freepia is small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on VIA EPIA-M mainboards. It currently only runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemia cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too. The main goal of this project is to build a full-featured, low-noise media box to play movies, MP3s, images, etc. It uses freevo as its media viewer, but in the future there may be support for others, like mythtv or vdr. GMime 2.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132156/ GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME). gpsdrive 2.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132153/ Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available. IceWM Control center 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132095/ The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options. Image Leech 0.2.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132152/ Image Leech is an automated image downloading program written in Perl. It will take a given address and retrieve all links to images and download. Each file downloaded can be renamed to prevent conflicts and to create an easily viewable collection. Other features include the ability to filter given Web pages, and traverse linked pages. imgv 2.8.8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132129/ IMGV is free Image Viewer written entirely in Python, and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MS-Windows, Mac OS X, and others. It includes many standard and unique features such as a file/directory browser, slideshows, zooming, rotating, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, view/save images from websites, movie playing, multiple-directory loading, a customizable interface, and much more. Issue Dealer 0.9.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132134/ The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information. JunFa 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132142/ JunFa is a chinese chess engine compliant with the CXBoard v1 communication protocol. It is the first OSS bitboard-based Chinese Chess engine released to the public. Its methods of move generation and board representation make it fast and capable of evaluating multiple board states very quickly. JXP 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132136/ JXP 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. Knoppix Auto-configuration for Installed Distribut 0.2.1 (Mandrake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132115/ Knoppix Auto-configuration for Installed Distributions provides ports of Knoppix's Live CD automatic hardware detection system to installed systems. Liferea 0.2.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132159/ Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML. LimeWire 3.3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131907/ LimeWire is a multi-platform Gnutella client with nice features like auto-connect, groups, browse host, multiple search, upload throttling, connection quality control, library management and sophisticated filtering. It is built for the both the novice and power user. Linux 2.6.0-test3 (2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132097/ Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132147/ Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking. linuXMPCR 1.0 RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132122/ linuXMPCR is a Perl interface for the XM Radio XMPCR computer receiver. The program has two parts: one is the module that controls the radio, and the other is the very basic interface that does everything it is needed to do. Log4Py 1.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132112/ Log4Py is a logging module for Python programmers that is similar to log4j. It supports various debug levels, configurable output, and debugging information such as line-numbers or tracebacks. MacXM 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132124/ MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection. mharc 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132138/ mharc is a collection of scripts for generating and managing Web-based searchable mail archives. MHonArc, Namazu, and Procmail are required. mozplayerxp 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132132/ mozplayerxp is a scriptable Mozilla mplayer plugin. It supports stop, play, pause, fullscreen, and JavaScript calls. MyOrgBook 2.5.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132093/ MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and MySQL. Its features include multi-user login, a lost password emailer, contacts, a to- do/scheduler, a calendar, and a profile changer. It allows you to edit, delete, and update contacts, and much more. Pascal To Doxygen Convertor 0.40 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132108/ Pas2Dox (Pascal To Doxygen) is a pre-processing filter for Doxygen. It allows Kylix/Delphi programmers to comment their code using JavaDoc style tags and then have Doxygen build the application documentation. PHP Web Application Framework 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131792/ phpWebApp is an application framework which makes it easy and simple to build PHP Web applications based on relational databases. It separates the task of designing and changing the layout of the application from the task of implementing the logic of the application, by using XML templates that are an extension of XHTML. It also simplifies the task of implementing the logic of the application by offering an event based programming model. In addition, phpWebApp tries to offer modularity and code reusability to the community of Webapp developers. PMK 0.5.4 (Snapshot) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132148/ PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers. PyGnome Tools 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132105/ PyGnome Tools contain a set of extended widgets for gnome-python developers. The main widgets are a fileselectiondialog, a progressbar, and a widget to create GtkOptionMenus more easily. PyPE 1.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132130/ PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform available. python-crack 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132120/ python-crack is a module that provides to Python programs the ability to evaluate password strength. It uses the well known cracklib toolkit, hence the name. QiPan 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132141/ QiPan is the reference implementation of a cxboard compliant interface program. CXBoard is a communication protocol, modeled after XBoard and UCI, used for communication between Chinese Chess engines and interfaces. rdiald 0.71 (Client) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132098/ rdiald allows users in your home network to initiate a dialup connection to one of a freely configurable set of internet service providers on the server rdiald is running on. Multiple users can be online at the same time, and the connection is only terminated once the last user goes offline. The users are allowed to execute any commands that have been defined previously on the server and to hang up as soon as these commands have finished. remark 1.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132114/ Remark turns a file of plain text, with some very simple conventions, into DocBook XML, and thence into whatever format you can manage using DocBook as a starting point (e.g. PDF, PostScript, RTF, etc.). The "markup" that remark accepts is natural and intuitive to write (especially if you use Emacs), and can be easily consumed as-is. Remark's capabilites for producing DocBook XML are rather limited right now, but good enough for daily use, and can easily be extended. Report Manager 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132065/ Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a high-level printing (reporting) engine. The functionality is similar to some other comercial tools like Crystal Reports. RSSOwl 0.51b http://freshmeat.net/releases/132144/ RSSOwl is a GUI desktop client (using SWT as fast graphic libary) that reads the RSS format from a URL or a local file. It is divided into 4 areas: RSS Management includes quickview of an RSS feed, adding new RSS favorites to a category, adding new categories, deleting an RSS feed or a category, and fulltext searching with result highlights. RSS Favorites shows all the saved favorites in the different categories in a tree. RSS TabFolder displays the title and description of the RSS feed plus a list of the newsheaders from the feed; it opens a new tab whenever a new RSS feed is opened. RSS NewsItem displays the selected news from the list of newsheaders from the TabFolder; the link to the news can be clicked to open it in the browser. The supported languages are German and English. RSSOwl 0.5b http://freshmeat.net/releases/132096/ RSSOwl is a GUI desktop client (using SWT as fast graphic libary) that reads the RSS format from a URL or a local file. It is divided into 4 areas: RSS Management includes quickview of an RSS feed, adding new RSS favorites to a category, adding new categories, deleting an RSS feed or a category, and fulltext searching with result highlights. RSS Favorites shows all the saved favorites in the different categories in a tree. RSS TabFolder displays the title and description of the RSS feed plus a list of the newsheaders from the feed; it opens a new tab whenever a new RSS feed is opened. RSS NewsItem displays the selected news from the list of newsheaders from the TabFolder; the link to the news can be clicked to open it in the browser. The supported languages are German and English. Ruby-GStreamer 0.6.0 (unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132140/ Ruby-GStreamer is a set of Ruby bindings for the GStreamer multimedia framework. Samwise 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132123/ Samwise is a keyword-based link keeper that allows you to tag a given link with multiple keywords and generate listings on the intersection of sets of keywords. It supports multiple users, each with their own distinct set of keywords and bookmarks, and allows each user to have a set of private bookmarks visible only when they are fully logged in. scsidev 2.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132119/ scsidev builds a list of devices on your SCSI busses and creates device nodes to access them. The names are built based on their path, which is a 4-tuple consisting of the host adapter number, the channel number, the SCSI target ID, and the Logical Unit Number. Names build this way are much more persistent than the enumeration scheme used by the kernel (1st disk = sda, etc.). scsidev remembers the permissions of disappeared devices and restores the permissions properly when devices reappear. Optionally, it can create the devices as symbolic links to the main device nodes in /dev/, create missing device nodes, and handle missing permissions on the /dev/ nodes. You can assign alias names based on various pieces of information, such as vendor and model name. It also supports retrieving the serial number, the WWID, and the HSV OS ID and allows assigning names based on this information, thus providing a unique identification. SGE 030809 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132101/ SGE is a graphics library for the Simple Direct Media Layer. SGE provides pixel operations, graphics primitives, TrueType rendering, rotation&scaling, and much more. socklog 1.2.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132137/ socklog cooperates with the runit package to create a small and secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the help of runit's runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd. socklog provides a different network logging concept, and also does log event notification. svlogd has built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog is small, secure, and reliable. SourceForge Utilities 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132149/ The SourceForge Utilities project provides programmatic interfaces to certain administrative applications on the SourceForge Web site. It offers a Java interface to the File Release System, allowing file releases to be incorporated into Ant and Maven builds. Space Colors 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132077/ Space Colors is a theme based on an abstract background. TCL File Server 4.3.2b http://freshmeat.net/releases/132109/ TCL File Server is an IRC File Server made in TCL, that supports common features and some others. tkblog 2.40 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132125/ tkblog is a cross-platform standalone blogging application written in Tcl/Tk. TreoHandsFree 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132133/ TreoHandsFree (TreoHF) lets you dial preset numbers using the headset button. You configure up to 4 numbers and then press the headset button the corresponding number of times. Tundra IRC 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132111/ Tundra IRC is an IRC client written entirely in Java, to ensure compatibility with any platform. It features a clean, tabbed interface, and supports multiple servers and channels. The primary reason it was written was to provide a suitable IRC client for Mac OS X. WindowLab 1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132106/ WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time. xCHM 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132150/ xCHM is a graphical CHM viewer for UNIX. It's based on CHMLIB and written using the wxWindows framework. It is not an extractor, but a standalone viewer, able to generate and show the topics tree, figure out the homepage for the document, print the current page, and go forward and backward in its history. ziproxy 1.2b http://freshmeat.net/releases/132135/ ziproxy is a forwarding (non-caching) proxy that gzips text and HTML files, and reduces the size of images by converting them to low quality JPEGs. It is intended to increase the speed for dial-up Internet connections. Most browsers support gzipped content, so Web pages appear as normal, but as they are only a fraction of their original page size, pages are much quicker to load. Even for browsers that don't support it, hints how to overcome it using SSH port forwarding are included. Images are reduced in size by an average of one third, with only marginal visible image quality loss. It should be used with inetd/xinetd, but if you can't use them, a simple replacement "netd" is provided. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
