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AutoGen 5.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133622/ AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files. AutoOpts 20.0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133623/ AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple option description file, it will process configuration files, environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically. BBStatus 2.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133646/ BBStatus is an IP accounting package and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (allows you to design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and visualize various data (depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool. cfv 1.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133649/ cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv (Simple File Verify), .csv, .crc, .md5(sfv style), md5sum, and BSD md5 checksum verification files. It also includes test-only support for .par and .par2 files. These files are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or storage of data. Coherent Mail Gateway 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133608/ Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam. In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The target market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system but its value will be limited. Cornice 0.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133616/ Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL. CSV Utilities for Unix/Linux 20030824 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133607/ csvutils is a set of four shell (sh and bash) scripts to handle CSV files. Three are purpose-built tools to help manage file collections, but the fourth is a general-purpose script to parse CSV files. ctrlproxy 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133651/ ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else. It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client), password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected). CWirc 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133613/ 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. DCTC 0.85.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133624/ DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented. DSPAM 2.6.5-beta-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133629/ 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. dvd::rip 0.50.15 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133638/ dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools. Eros BBS Engine 20030824-0910-jam (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133612/ Eros is a modular, object-oriented BBS engine intended to be used as a library that builds upon proven open source software technology and W3 standards to implement and manage templates, permissions, membership, database access, etc. It is currently in heavy development, and new snapshots are released often. fbv 0.99 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133648/ fbv is a very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console, capable of displaying GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP files using libungif, libjpeg, and libpng. The image can be shown either in fit-to-screen or panning mode in 8, 15/16, and 32bpp. FindBugs 0.6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133640/ 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. Group PHP Library 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133634/ Group PHP Library is a collection of PHP scripts to list books available for checkout. Data is held in a Postgres database. Available books can be listed by author's first or last name, by publisher, or by title. GTK Cervi 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133650/ GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide into anything. GTKSee 0.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133589/ GTKSee is a image viewer and image browser with slide show capability which aims to be an ACDSee clone. GYR Penguins 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133598/ GYR Penguins consists of 8 penguin-related icons made with Blender3d and/or The Gimp. The Blender source files (.blend and .xcf.gz) are provided for those who would like to help. International Ispell 3.2.06.epa6 (Unofficial 'epa') http://freshmeat.net/releases/133604/ International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix, which supports a large number of European languages (only English dictionaries are included in the source tarball). An emacs interface is available, as well as the standard command-line mode. JESAS 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133600/ JESAS is a multi-user, multi-exam simulation and authoring system. It is a tool used to assess candidate expertise in technical skills and to track candidate performance over a specified period. JESAS provides several different testing environments or modes: Learning, Mock, Adaptive, and Quick Drill. It supports more than 12 question types. It has a built-in secured database with a secured login facilty. It can easily beat the current leading Windows-only test engines, ExamGear and SelfTest, in terms of performance and functionality. jMSN 0.5.10 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133627/ jMSN is an MSN client for the Linux console. It uses a BitchX-like interface, featuring multiple windows. It is written in Perl, and is not based on any existing MSN code. JpGraph 1.13 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133631/ JpGraph is an OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above. Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes, spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive documentation (145 pages). JXMLPad 1.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133625/ JXMLPad is a Java component for editing XML document. It includes Java bean usage, syntax coloration (tags, name spaces, strings, entities, etc.), a syntax helper, a look-and-feel plugIn, a customized action toolbar, real time tree location, syntax correction, a template for fast creation, easy integration in your application, several standard actions for XML usage (parse, search, comment, etc.), a standard Swing EditorKit, real time tree text synchronization, auto tag closing, many actions (parsing, searching, adding comments, formatting), and real time text location. It is customizable with a property file kdissert 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133626/ kdissert is an attempt to make a mindmapping-like tool to help students to write texts like dissertations, theses, and reports. It is meant to organize the ideas faster, not to actually write the documents themselves. Linux 2.4.22-rc3 (2.4-testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133591/ 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. lyskom-server 2.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133602/ LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20 operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the server software itself. MagCon 0.9.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133609/ MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices. mboxgrep 0.7.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133655/ mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox and displays messages matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression. It supports mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml, and maildir folders. Merchant of Venice 0.2 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/133593/ Merchant of Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading, and experimental methods like genetic programming. It features a graphical user interface with online help and includes full documentation. It runs on UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows. mkxvcd.sh 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133605/ mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates an PAL VCD MPEG1 stream that fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools from the mplayer and mjpegtools packages. Mp3dings Alpha 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133599/ Mp3dings is a small, powerful, and easy-to-use program that lets you to change the names and edit the meta-information of a large number of MP3 audio files at the same time. mudsbuilder 0.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133647/ Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs. Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south, north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such as one-way exits. netmap 1.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133621/ Netmap is a network weather map creator. It collects data from network devices using SNMP and 'prints' them on existing images creating traffic maps. It provides a Web-based interface and does not require any command-line interaction or text file editing to design the maps. obliquid 0.6.9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133644/ Obliquid is a PHP/XML framework for building groupware Web portals. It provides Lego bricks that may be composed to build an Internet application. It has multilingual support and themes. Modules include user management, calendar, news, CMS, and messaging. pktstat 1.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133617/ pktstat listens to the network and shows the bandwidth being consumed by packets of various kinds in realtime. It understands some protocols (including FTP, HTTP, and X11) and adds a descriptive name next to the entry (e.g., 'RETR cd8.iso', 'GET http://slashdot.org/' or 'xclock -fg blue'). PMK 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133601/ 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. portmon 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133596/ Portmon is a daemon that is able to monitor network services and send notification in the event that a server goes down. Portmon was designed to be able to monitor a large number of servers/workstations and give very configurable notification in the event of a network failure. Ruby 1.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133592/ Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures. sadlittlewebjournal 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133615/ sadlittlewebjournal is a Weblog written in Perl that utilizes PostgreSQL or MySQL and a straightforward ASCII interface. Site maintenance is done via an intuitive backend that allows one to add, delete, and modify previous entries. Other features include an integrated guestbook, a Web stat chart complete with ASCII bar graphs, and various other modularized features. SerialBridge 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133639/ SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device. It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port on a Treo. SkinLF 1.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133632/ Todays applications tend to be skinnable: cdplayers, email notifiers, even operating systems. SkinLF provides a skin system for Java programs. Squid 3.0-PRE3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133635/ Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms. suPHP 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133614/ suPHP is a combination of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and an executable which provides a wrapper for PHP. With both together, it is possible to execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owner without having to place a PHP binary in each user's cgi-bin directory. suPHP doesn't need Apache's suExec, and provides a logging function. The Battle for Wesnoth 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133610/ The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Train Scheduler for Palm Pilot 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133637/ trainsched displays train schedules in an easy-to- read format. The included converter converts the schedules from a CSV format to the PDB file format used in Palm OS. Umix 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133595/ Umix is a program for adjusting sound card volumes and other features in sound card mixers. You can control your volumes, balances, and recording sources flexibly from the command line or with a ncurses user interface with familiar vi/emacs keybindings. Umix supports multiple mixer devices. All settings can be saved and loaded from a file. VideoDB 2003-08-24a http://freshmeat.net/releases/133603/ VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies. Womcat Bookmarks 2.2.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133597/ Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. It can output the bookmarks as an HTML page and as an RSS 2.0 file which can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps folder names into the "category" element. Womcat Bookmarks can download other RSS files, treating them as categorized bookmarks, to create a local database of web bookmarks that can be browsed by subject. It supports RSS discovery by allowing posting RSS file URL's as new items. It also acts as a basic RSS feed reader. Workrave 1.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133654/ Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32). Xfprot 0.23beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/133633/ XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It was based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. Starting from version 0.20beta, it is based on the GTK+ 1.2 libraries. xMule v2 0.1.6 (wx UI) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133611/ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
