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It contains Linked List, Avl Tree, Vector, Binary Search Table, Double Ended Queue, Finite State Machine Graph, String, and Sort. The library is designed to be versatile for the programmer. For example, the linked list utilizes both inheritance and templates to allow a single instance of a data structure to be an element in multiple lists. In general, Aapl data structures do not have private data members and are thus not abstracted away. ABISS_poster 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133038/ ABISS_poster is a LaTeX class for creating A0 posters easily. afick 0.9.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133040/ afick is another file integrity checker, designed to be fully portable between Unix and Windows platforms. It works by first creating a database that represents a snapshot of the most essential parts of your computer system. You can then run the script to discover all modifications made since the snapshot was taken (i.e. files added, changed, or removed). AirportStatus 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132974/ AirportStatus is a gtkmm2 program that can monitor and set the modem state of your Apple Airport base station (Type1) modem. AnimalTracker 0.66 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133080/ AnimalTracker can be used to track the position of animals and their behavior in the context of an observation. Users can draw a map of the area and position the animals on it. The application can then calculate the distance between the animals and the distribution of them on the map across a specified time period. All data can be exported as tables to be used in spreadsheet applications or statistics programs. batchgimp 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132999/ batchgimp is a batch processor for rendering of images. It uses a command-line interface, and supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PSD file formats. It accesses the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) plug-in structure to provide image processing functions. Images are processed in a batch for an entire directory. batchgimp is written in Perl and interfaces with the Scheme scripting engine provided by the GIMP. beboCD 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132991/ BeboCD is a libcdaudio-based CD player with an easy-to-use GUI. BeeCrypt 3.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133008/ BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide strong and fast cryptography in the form of a toolkit usable by commercial and open source projects. Included in the library are entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines, and public key primitives. Bookcase 0.6.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133103/ Bookcase is a personal book collection manager for KDE. It uses an XML file storage format, and tracks 26 book properties by default. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Author names are automatically formatted, and the collection may be sorted by any property. Filters are available to limit the visible books by definable criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT file. Automatic ISBN validation is included. Exporting to Bibtex and Bibtexml is possible. BSDftpd-ssl 0.6.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133026/ BSDftpd-ssl is a TLS/SSL-enhanced FTP server. It is based on FreeBSD's ftpd, and the TLS/SSL enhancement allows RFC 2228 "FTP Security Extensions"-compliant TLS/SSL support for both control and data connections. This feature requires special clients; with standard clients, this software operates as a standard FTP server. Bugzero 2.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133047/ Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group and field level access control, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, self registration to public projects, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management. checksuite 2.1-0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132880/ checksuite is a suite of Perl scripts that provide notification and assistance with day-to-day system administration tasks. These scripts monitor system resources as well as some security aspects on a system. ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 2.0 (Office) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133092/ ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities, and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux. ColorDesigner 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133011/ ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set. cvsreport 0.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133049/ CVSreport produces text or enhanced HTML activity reports from a local or remote CVS repository. It can be used to extract activity information from any timespan, or to automatically generate reports and store/send them on commit events. It can extract changesets (a set of commit operations which happen along a single invocation of the cvs commit command) from a CVS repository history. Used from the client side, it produces a report starting from an arbitrary date from a simple working copy. On the server side, it can automatically generate reports and mail them upon commit. Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.15 (2.1) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133062/ The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language. Digital Tester 0.2 ALPHA http://freshmeat.net/releases/133070/ Digital Tester is a test planning and execution tool. It aims to be an alternative to Test Director or QA Director. Its features include requirement definition and tracking, test case design and planning, test case execution and result tracking, and simple effective reporting of planning, execution, and result data. Divmod Quotient 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132995/ Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon. Dogfood 2.0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133087/ Dogfood is an groupware and CRM system based on phprojekt. It featues an improved mail module and tightened relationships. DotPHP 3.0 (FormForge) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133021/ DotPHP is framework similar to ASP.NET. It contains FormForge, Web components, NuSOAP, and PHPBaseClasses. DRT 0.3.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133095/ DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application. DSPAM 2.6.5-alpha-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133031/ DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives. DVDdb 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133003/ DVDdb is a web based DVD database that allows multiple users to track ownership and loans of DVDs amongst friends. Etherboot 5.2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133057/ 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. exiftags 0.98 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133066/ exiftags parses a JPEG file looking for Exif (Exchangeable Image File) data, formatting, and printing image properties. Digital cameras typically add Exif data to the image files they produce containing information about the camera and digitized image. exiftags includes support for some camera manufacturer-specific properties. Exim 4.21 (exim4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133036/ Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive. Exim is in use at many sites around the world. eXtace 1.8.11 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133101/ eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program. It requires Esound (esd) for its audio source. It includes various fast fourier transforms of the audio data in realtime. Its displays include a 3D wireframe flying landscape, a 3D textured flying landscape, a 16-256 channel graphic EQ, three types of scopes, a 3D "spike" flying landscape, and two forms of spectragrams. The 3D traces can be picked up, manipulated, and displayed at nearly any angle. eXtace also features a 3D direction control widget for controlling the angle and speed at which the trace runs away and a gradient/colormap editor for changing the colormap to suit your needs. No OpenGL is required. fam++ 3.5.0 (fampp2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133027/ fam++ is a C++ wrapper for fam, which uses imon or DNotify (Linux 2.4.x) to inform it when inodes change (the net effect being that applications can register interest in a file, and have events send to the application when the file changes). Fam++ also integrates with gdk and Loki to make creation of C++ GTK+/GNOME apps simpler. ffproxy 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133016/ 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. An HTTP accelerator feature (acting as a front-end to an HTTP server) is included. Contacting IPv6 servers as well as binding to IPv6 is supported and allows transparent IPv6 over IPv4 browsing (and vice versa). FinalSolution 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133084/ FinalSolution is a network administrator's tool to check the strength of network passwords. This is done by trying to crack the server you want to test. FinalSolution is multithreaded--i.e., it makes many simultaneous connections to the test server in order to optimize the bandwidth usage. It is also distributed, which means you can make the test from many computers to a single server. It could be useful in some cases when the test server has more bandwidth than you. Using distributed cracking helps optimize the bandwidth usage in the server's side. FindBugs 0.6.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133053/ FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends. FireRPC 0.9.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133045/ FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress. FUDforum 2.5.3RC1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133019/ FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators. Gerber Viewer 0.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133091/ Gerber Viewer is a viewer for Gerber files, also called RS274X. It lets you load several files on top of each other, do measurements on the displayed image, etc. With GDK-PixBuf it is also possible to export images as PNGs. gHeiseReader 2002-02-14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132975/ gHeiseReader is a GTK program that provides the ability to read the German "Heise-news" in a pre-cached form. gmorgan 0.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133073/ gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time. grepmail 5.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132982/ grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox (gzip, bzip2, or tzip) for a given regular expression and returns those emails that match the query. It also supports searches constrained by date and size. GtkGLExt 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133072/ GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable. Gwine 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133010/ Gwine is a GNOME wine cellar manager written in Perl. HBCI4Java 2.4.2 (Package) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133034/ HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required. Hermes 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133054/ HERMES is a Web application framework designed to help provide a rapid application development framework for business tools with an initial focus of CRM (application included). It provides an integrated and flexible approach to business tools, and allows for database abstraction, library models, user rights management, and other critical areas. ibWebAdmin 0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133088/ ibWebAdmin is a web based admin tool for the InterBase and Firebird database servers. Beside creating, modifying, and deleting of databases, tables, domains, generators, triggers, indices, and users, it supports import and export of data in CSV file format. It features browsing through tables and entering/editing of data, including BLOBs. IceWM SilverXP Theme 1.2.10-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132990/ The IceWM SilverXP Theme was inspired by the Microsoft Windows XP Silver Theme. The title bars and window borders have the look of Windows XP. The colors of all elements are very similar to the colors of the Windows XP interface. Internet Chess ToolKit 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132992/ Internet Chess ToolKit is a Java-based set of libraries and widgets useful for performing common tasks such as reading SAN (internationalized), FEN, PGN, and generating legal moves. ivykis 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133022/ ivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification. It is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as /dev/epoll, /dev/poll, kqueue(2), poll(2), POSIX realtime signals, select(2), and epoll_create(2). ivykis was mainly designed for building high-performance network servers, but can be used as building block for any kind of event-driven application that uses poll(2)able file descriptors as its inputs. Javadoc Search 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133102/ Javadoc-search is a CGI script for indexing and searching HTML files produced by the JavaDoc tool. It allows fast and convenient regular expression searches for class and class member names, and for full method signatures that include argument types. It examines pages generated by JavaDoc and builds its own index. JaxMeJS 1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132997/ The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is included. jSyncManager 3.0 beta 01 (Core Application Set) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132987/ jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes, including XML and CSV. jSyncManager 3.0 beta 04 (API) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132986/ jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes, including XML and CSV. KMonodim 2.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133005/ KMonodim is a simple solver for monodimensional particle-in-a-box problems, written for QT/KDE. It current solves problems with various potentials such as square well, square well with a barrier, parabolic, and morse potential. It provides calculation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for a given system, Richardson extrapolation to achieve better precision, loads and saves in XML format, can do simultaneous work on multiple systems, and integral evaluation. KnowledgeTree 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133042/ KnowledgeTree is a feature-rich document management system featuring knowledge management, document version control, hierarchical document management, support for common file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, TXT, HTML), extensible meta data, creation of custom document types, application managed document links that guarantees consistent data and eliminates emailing documents, easy publication of documents, subscription agents, archiving according to expiry date, expiry time period, or utilisation for enhanced speed, and much more. Konstruct 20030818 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133007/ Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example, "cd apps/koffice;make install"). kracer 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133046/ kracer is a racing game for Nokia phones that support J2ME. It is aimed at the higher resolution Nokia phones such as the series 60 phones (3650, 7650). It still needs more tracks and better graphics. LaTrine 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133015/ LaTrine is a curses-based LAnguage TRaINEr. It takes a dictionary and asks you for a word or a phrase, and you try to give the correct answer. The direction is configurable. The selection of the words or phrases depends on how often you don't know the correct translation. It can be used with the Free Dictionaries Project, which provides dictionaries for about 50 language combinations. libferrisloki 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133029/ libferrisloki is a Loki library that has been adapted for Linux and contains extensions in Extensions.hh. libferrisstreams 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133030/ libferrisstreams is a collection of base classes for custom std::basic_streambuf subclasses, SigC signals fired when streambuf objects are about to be deleted, relative URL handling, easy reference counting on streambuf objects, a collection of IOStreams which complement the standard ones on offer (MakeMemoryIOStream(), MakeFdIOStream(), MakeHoleyOStream(), MakeLimitingIStream(), and MakeProxyStream()), and additions for UNIX semantics. For example a file stream can be created using o_mmap|o_mseq when one wants a memory mapped file to be used an madvise(2) that access to that area will be sequential. Lupy 0.1.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132989/ Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware. Mail::Mbox::MessageParser 1.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132977/ Mail::Mbox::MessageParser is a feature-poor but very fast mbox parser. It uses the best of three strategies for parsing a mailbox: either using cached folder information, GNU grep, or highly-optimized Perl. Mes comptes 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133033/ Mes comptes is a French program for managing your finances. MinDia 0.97.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133002/ MinDia is an application for creating, modifying, and presenting multimedia slide shows. Slide shows can contain multimedia elements like images, sounds, and text. In addition to displaying on screen, it can control Rollei slide projectors (Rolleivision 35 twin digital P and Rolleivision twin msc 3x0 P) via a serial port. Minimalist Queue Services 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133071/ MQS (Minimalist Queue Services) is a minimalist queueing system that provides a set of basic methods in order to offer asynchronous messaging for program/application. Applications can use this type of services in order to store and retrieve messages to a dedicated queue in the queue services. This allows you to avoid direct connection between applications and provides a simple asynchronous communication system. It provides a simple set of XML-RPC methods for pushing and getting messages in a specific queue (so you can use the system with any application that can talk XML-RPC). The queue is stored in a database (e.g., MySQL). mod_caml 0.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133090/ mod_caml is a set of Objective CAML (OCaml) bindings for the Apache API. It allows you to run CGI scripts written in OCaml directly inside the Apache Web server. However, it is much much more than just that. You can bind to any part of the Apache request cycle, read and modify internal Apache structures, share modules of code between handlers and scripts, or use the CGI library and templating system (allows separation of code and presentation). moodss 17.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133061/ Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers, summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network, and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl, Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included. It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for later analysis or for presentation using common software. msmtp 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133078/ msmtp is a simple program that works as an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods, TLS-encrypted connections, and IPv6 support. Nicotine 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133079/ Nicotine is a feature-complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing network. You can use it to upload, download, search, and chat. You can keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek client is supposed to do. If you are familiar with PySoulSeek, you'll probably notice a striking resemblance in appearance. OpenCOE 1.1.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133039/ The OpenCOE project provides an implementation of the publicly-available DII COE APIs. The Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE) is an initiative of the Defense Information System Agency to provide a common set of resources and procedures for system administration and security across multiple platforms. The OpenCOE project is not in any way affiliated with or sponsored by DISA. OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132996/ OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. OpenOffice2Text 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133006/ OpenOffice2Text is a converter that translates OpenOffice.org documents to ASCII text or HTML. Oralux 0.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132998/ Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface. PasTmon 0.4-0 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133076/ PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times, throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the plots. PennMUSH 1.7.7p17 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133068/ PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS. pf2x 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132985/ pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and convert it into various different output formats. These output formats include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD 3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF. PHP 4.3.3RC4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133069/ PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available. php Dealer Locator 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133051/ php Dealer Locator lets you keep track of your dealers with this quick and easy Web-based PHP application. Your visitors will be able to search by name, distance, city, and zipcode. phpBuns 0.5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133075/ PhpBuns is a generator of SQL query and Web pages written in PHP. For example, it makes it possible to generate the queries and pages necessary for creating a Web interface for adding, editing, deleting, listing, and retrieving data from an SQL database. potrace 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132994/ potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap (that is, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image). The input is a portable bitmap (PBM), and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file (EPS). A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company or university logos, handwritten notes, etc. The resulting image is not "jaggy" like a bitmap, but smooth. It can then be rendered at any resolution. PREDICT 2.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133043/ PREDICT is a multi-user satellite tracking and orbital prediction program. It can provide a real-time display of data such as a spacecraft's sub-satellite point, azimuth and elevation headings, Doppler shift, path loss, slant range, orbital altitude, orbital velocity, footprint diameter, orbital phase (mean anomaly), squint angle, eclipse depth, the time and date of the next AOS (or LOS of the current pass), orbit number, and sunlight and visibility information. PSYC Multi User Virtual Environment cvs-03-04-22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132724/ PSYC Multi User Virtual Environment is a networkable chat system based on the Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing. PSYC is interchanged between servers and clients, but users can also use telnet, Web-chat, or IRC clients to connect to the system. Chatrooms are programmable and cannot be hacked. Unlike IRC, everyone can run a PSYC server and be an equal member of the communication network. PurpleWiki 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132939/ PurpleWiki is a WikiWikiWeb implementation derived from UseModWiki that adds several features and modularizes the code for easier development. It includes purple numbers (a system that allows fine-grained linking to elements in a page), a parser that supports pluggable output formats and use by other tools (plugins for Movable Type and Bloxsom are included), RSS feeds of recents changes, and transclusion of content between pages managed by the parser (within and without the Wiki). pxlib 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133041/ pxlib is a simple and small C library to read Paradox DB files. It supports all versions starting from 3.0. It currently has a very limited set of functions, like opening a DB file, reading its header, and reading every single record. It can also extract blob data and write it to a file. PyCg 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132959/ PyCg is a Python wrapper for the Cg runtime fron NVIDIA. It allows you to transfer and control vertex and fragment programs from Python. PycURL 7.10.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133009/ PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program. Pymprovisator 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133052/ Pymprovisator is a program for jazz musicians. Jazz music is based on improvisation and this program is intended to help musicians to improvise. The user sets the song parameters and the program generates a MIDI file with an adequate accompaniment. It emulates the program Band in a Box from PG Music. You can think of it as the electronic version of the books/CD from Jamey Aebersold. Q 4.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132978/ Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode. Q-Audio 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132979/ Q-Audio is a digital audio interface for Q. The package contains two modules which together provide the basic functionality needed to write digital audio applications. The audio module implements a (nearly) real-time audio interface on top of the PortAudio library, and the sndfile module allows you to access sound files in various formats using libsndfile. Q-Midi 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132980/ Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available, including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires Tcl/Tk). Qalculate! 0.2 (GTK+) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133050/ Qalculate! is a modern desktop calculator. It is small and simple to use, but with much power underneath. It features customizable functions and variables, unit handling, and an interface with one-line fault-tolerant expression entry, but with optional traditional buttons. Quick Spam Filter 0.7.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133100/ Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam. RedLeaf 0.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133012/ RedLeaf is simple mailing list management software. If you interested in sending periodic email messages to a group of opt-in subscribers (people who are interested enough to subscribe to your newsletter), then it will help you maintain that list. RetroForth 6.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133099/ Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based development system. It currently runs under Linux and DOS, or as an operating system. Reverend 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132988/ Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier written in Python. It is designed to be easily adapted for your application and is not tied to email. S tar 1.5a20 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133001/ Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server. saintSQLadmin 2.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132910/ saintSQLadmin is a simple Web-based application for administrating your MySQL databases. It is capable of adding or dropping databases, adding or dropping tables, changing or modifying your table definitions, and viewing, adding, editing, or deleting records. Samba 3.0RC1 (3.0.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133097/ The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. SaveMyModem 1.0pre8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133025/ SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, email-shaping, and delete-on-server email tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments. sensorTrends 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132981/ sensorTrends is a Web-based application that displays a high-level view of the ports that are being scanned over the course of time. The display is similar to the look and feel of incidents.org and Dshield.com. There are also quick links to correlate your data with incidents.org and Dshield.com. Supported log formats are Cisco router Access Control Lists (ACLs) syslog output, Cisco PIX firewall syslog output, Snort's portscan.log files, and NetScreen syslog output. Slibo 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133074/ Slibo aims to be a comfortable replacement for the xboard chess interface, written for OpenGL and KDE. It uses the xboard protocol and can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it provides its own chess engine too. Though its designed to be easy to use for the new chess player, it supports playing multiple games the same time, or anaylzing PGN files with multiple engines. slurm 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133059/ slurm started as a port of pppstatus to FreeBSD and now is a generic network load monitor. It features three different modes with real-time ASCII graphs and interface statistics for all kinds of network interfaces on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux. SMTP client class 2003.08.18 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133077/ SMTP client class is a class that connects to a SMTP mail server to send messages. It can relay message delivery to a defined SMTP server or directly deliver messages to a recipient's SMTP server for urgent message delivery. It supports connection timeouts, SMTP authentication, returns message delivery success, detects extensions supported by the SMTP server, and takes advantage of the SMTP PIPELINING extension to buffer SMTP commands, providing much faster queueing of messages when delivering to a large number of recipients (bulk mail). Snownews 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133082/ Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and 2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. SoulSeek for Linux 1.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132949/ Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches, and file transfers. SWISH++ 5.14.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133086/ SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters, user-selectable stemming, and more. Sword 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133085/ Sword is a general-purpose C++ library which gives you high-quality classes for some very common tasks such as "logging", "time/date", "commandline parsing", etc. tasks 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133000/ tasks is built on PHP and MySQL. It features a dynamic hierarchical view of your tasks, scheduling due dates and associating URLs with tasks, an iCalendar of your tasks (scheduled tasks can go into the calendar as events or task list). and a mobile version for easy access with a PDA. Telboek 0.05 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133098/ Telboek provides a commandline interface (Perl) for the Dutch whitepages of the KPN. It fetches data from http://www.detelefoongids.nl/ and formats it nicely, so you don't have to open a browser to look up a phone number. tgif 4.1.43 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133081/ tgif is a vector-based drawing tool, with the additional benefit of being sort of a web-browser. That is, you can fetch drawings from a web server with it, and you can make objects in your picture into hotlinks to other parts of the drawing, or to other drawings accessible via HTTP. The Figaro 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133058/ The "Framework for Implicit Graph Algorithms and Representations by OBDDs" (Figaro) automatically manages experiments with input generator and algorithm plugins. It contains network generators and maxflow algorithms, both explicit and implicit. TinyCA 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133017/ TinyCA is a simple GUI written in Perl-Gtk to manage a small certification authority. It works as a frontend to OpenSSL. TinyCA lets you manage x509 certificates. It is possible to export data in PEM or DER format for use with servers, as PKCS#12 for use with clients, or as S/MIME certificates for use with email programs. It is also possible to import your own PKCS#10 requests and generate certificates from them. TinyCA is available in English and German. VDRadmin 0.94 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133044/ VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included. vhost 3.05r3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133018/ vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most routine administration tasks. It also has built-in "clustering" capability. viPlugin 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133089/ viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.). VIPS 7.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133067/ VIPS is a free image processing system. It's particularly good with large images (i.e., images larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour. weex 2.6.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133013/ Weex is a utility that is designed to automate the task of remotely maintaining a Web page or other FTP archive. It will synchronize a set of local files to a remote server by performing uploads and remote deletes as required. Xeuphoric 0.18.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133014/ Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Francès' Oric emulator, to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the Telestrat. xMule v2 0.1.0 (Web UI) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133020/ xMule v2 is a multi-platform file-sharing program, a fork of the original xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, has customizable user interface(s), features console and Web interfaces for local and remote controlling, and includes much more. Zabbix 1.0beta10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133024/ Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick and easy administration. It can be used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk. ZenEngine 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133048/ ZenEngine is a lightweight PHP CMS framework, mainly designed for homepages. It's actually based on XML/XSLT for content, and the file-system for navigation, but it is largely customizable and could be used with an SQL database or other kind of data store. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.