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You can use it for controlling webcams over the Internet/intranet or everything else you want to do with a stepmotor. Blazerd 0.1.109 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134180/ Blazerd is a UPS monitoring daemon for the Centralion Blazer UPS. It monitors a serial connection from the UPS for power failures and shuts the machine down gracefully if the power remains off for more than a specified interval, or when the battery power goes too low. CDStatus 0.94b http://freshmeat.net/releases/134166/ cdstatus checks for drive errors, outputs disc info (such as type and table of contents), and is capable of ripping full cd's, using configurable track ranges and retry counts. It usually produces identical output to cdparanoia with much faster execution. CodeEditor 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134234/ CodeEditor is an attempt at creating a code editor for GNUstep. The grand plan is to use it as a component in ProjectCenter, and also as a stand-alone application. CodeViz 0.12 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134189/ CodeViz is a call graph visualisation tool which uses a variety of different data collection methods to generate its call graphs. Using a modified version of the GNU Compiler, very accurate call graphs that precisely reflect the compiled code may be created. If using a compiler is undesirable, CodeViz is able to directly parse C/C++ code itself, and even analyse binaries with objdump, so it will work if the source isn't available. cryptoswap 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134175/ The cryptoswap package supports creating an encrypted swap partition when a system boots. This may be necessary on systems that use encrypted filesystems because plaintext secrets may be written to disk when memory is swapped to disk. The project also includes the ability to build a Linux initrd that supports booting with an encrypted root filesystem. CuteSITE CMS 1.155 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134191/ CuteSITE is an object oriented Web Content Management System for small- and medium-sized Web sites. With it, all Web sites consist of a number of objects and components. Objects can be folders, images, templates, strings, or custom organized objects (containers). The template language uses a common PHP script, and is highly efficient. Cyberduck 2.1beta5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134238/ Cyberduck is an SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser. It lets you open connections to multiple servers using a document-based interface. A simple "favorites" manager allows you to store frequently-used servers. Drag-and-drop is supported for both downloading and uploading files; just drag the file(s) or folder from the Finder to the browser window (or vice versa) to start the transfer. File deletion and renaming and checking and changing of permissions is possible with a Finder-like information panel. Debian Tux Blue 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134095/ Debian Tux Blue is a theme featuring a homemade Tux for Debian lovers. Drakemod 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134199/ Drakemod is a green theme based on the Deskmod.com website. It sports pixmapped buttons, rounded windows, menu/slit alpha, and more. Drums++ 0.88 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134171/ Drums++ is a programming language for creating drum sequences for MIDI devices. It comes with a player program for parsing .dpp files and sending MIDI commands to a MIDI keyboard or drum machine. It can alternatively create .midi files for playing on a PC. Ecasound 2.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134226/ Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package. Ecdysis 2.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134176/ Ecdysis is a clean, techy LCD theme. Fast Light WRITER 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134208/ Flwriter is a small WYSIWYG multi-lingual word processor based on the FLTK library. UTF-8 Xhtml is used as the native file format. It can export documents to Unicode Rich Text Format. Both right-to-left and left-to-right words can be entered on the same line. FireStorm 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134239/ FireStorm is productivity tool for Java developers who need to access relational databases. It reverse-engineers databases schemas and generates a Java persistence tier for Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The generated source code is based on the Data Access Object (DAO) design pattern. Full suport is present for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, WebLogic, and WebSphere. FluxAqua 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134218/ FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. It is developed mainly from files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file. Form and Table Manager 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134149/ Form and Table Manager is an HTML form and table manager for HTML::Mason. Freddy 0.80 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134229/ Freddy is a programmer's editor, written in Qt. It has a nice look, and is easy to use. It is extendable with its module support, and you can configure almost everything you want. GAI bgswitcher 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134196/ GAI bgswitcher is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that provides a quick, one-click background rotator. Gambas 0.65 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134227/ 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. GetCodecs 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134221/ GetCodecs is a simple applet written in Python with a GTK2 GUI that downloads, installs, and configures your system to use the various multimedia formats (MP3, DivX, DVD, etc.) that are not shipped with many distributions (such as Red Hat). Goanseech 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134161/ Goanseech is a spinoff of the leverlada IRC leech script. One of its core parts was extracted and remade into a standalone server. This server holds information about the basic pattern that specifies the base name of a TV series, which episodes were already fetched, and the maximum number of episodes. There are several clients, including a script that parses Web pages for Bittorrent links, matches them against the information on the series server, and controls a user-defined number of Bittorrent clients for retrieval. There is also a directory watcher which scans a given set of directories and updates the series server with newly found files. Gspoof 3.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134202/ Gspoof is a GTK+ program written in the C language which makes it easier and more accurate to build and send TCP packets with or without a data-payload. It's possible to modify TCP/IP fields and also ethernet header working to Link Level. You can send one or more packets together. It runs also in "console mode" without X and so you can compile it without GTK+. GTick 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134164/ GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per minute to 250 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+ and OSS. ifGraph 0.4.10rc1 (Release Candidate) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134223/ ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes (in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy. iRATE client 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134197/ iRATE client is a client for the iRATE radio system. It uses a collaborative filtering system to allow clients to download music based on ratings. Tracks are rated and it uses these ratings and other people's to guess what music to play. The tracks are legal music downloaded from Websites that allow free music downloads. Binary GCJ/SWT releases are available for Windows, Linux Motif, and Linux GTK2. Java/Swing releases are available for Mac OS X, Java WebStart, and other Java 1.3+ platforms. Java Imaging Utilities 0.11.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134215/ JIU (Java Imaging Utilities) is a Java library for pixel images. It can read and write a number of popular image file formats. Several algorithms for image editing, analysis, and processing are implemented. A GUI demo application, Javadoc API documentation, and a manual are provided as well. Java Runtime Class Editor Alpha 0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134182/ Java Runtime Class Editor allows all methods for user-defined classes to be altered at runtime. These alterations are then applied to a single instance, a collection of instances, or an entire class. This enables interactive application testing and the easy altering of running programs, allowing a trial and error approach to programming, testing code, and saving it when it is correct. The built-in script engine allows Java scripts to be run from within any application. RJCE can be used to write a program from within itself, ensuring high coupling between testing and development, with no delay before the outcome of any alterations. This is of particular interest to less-experienced developers who depend on more testing to build reliable applications. Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134154/ Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface. Kit 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134193/ Kit is an AIM client for KDE. It has a standard KDE UI, has standard KDE sound and other notification support, and uses the open protocol for reliable service. It has shipped with many operating systems, and so undergone many hours of testing and portability work. It also integrates with KDE session management and system tray features. Kraken 1.1.28 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134217/ Kraken is a small Python application for managing documents, Web pages, and directories. It also allows users to annotate these files with metadat, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to present the result of these queries in the form of HTML pages. The format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily parsed by third party applications. KStella 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134174/ KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. It currently supports the display of snapshots, labels, manuals, the configuration of individual game settings and of course, the ability to play games with just a click of the mouse. All these features are fully customizable to allow maximum flexibility. led.pl 1.77 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134150/ Led is a general purpose LDAP editor which allows editing of LDIF records or standard Unix flat file representations of LDAP databases using your favorite editor. It supports all of the maps defined by RFC-2307. libdvb 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134184/ libdvb (formerly dvb-mpegtools) contains three libraries with examples for their usage. libdvb is a library for switching channels using the Linux DVB API and keeping channel list for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T. libdvbci is used for handling CI interfaces that are optional for some DVB cards. It is based on the CI handler of vdr. libdvbmpegtools and the dvb-mpegtools provide a library and various small programs helpful for converting, demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. All those packages used to be included with the DVB driver. LinPHA 0.9.0pre2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134159/ LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB. Linux Port/Socket Pseudo ACLs 2.4.22-19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134183/ These patches allow an administrator to delegate privilege for some protected network resources to non-root users. They are generally used to run untrusted or insecure applications as an unprivileged process, thereby mitigating some undiscovered denial of service or root compromise. The ACLs currently cover protected ports, raw sockets, and packet sockets. Loggerithim 6.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134225/ Loggerithim is an extensible monitoring and remote management package. It allows you to monitor your systems, proactively spot problems, remotely manage, perform post-mortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate adminstration tasks. ManageIP 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134168/ ManageIP is an LDAP-enabled IP address and domain name management solution that includes LDAP-enabled DHCP and DNS servers. All information required for the operation of DHCP and DNS services, and for managing IP addresses and domain names, is stored in the customer's LDAP repository. ManageIP provides full- featured GUI access to configuration and other management functionality of the DHCP and DNS servers. MartokBot IRC Framework 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134178/ MartokBot is a modular IRC bot built on pircbot. It can load modules so it is easy to make a bot that does exactly what you want it to do. At the moment there are some plugins to do useful tasks with CounterStrike servers. mkvtoolnix 0.6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134163/ mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows. mod_layout 4.0.2a (Apache 2.0) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134242/ mod_layout is an Apache module that provides both a Footer and Header directive to automagically include output from other URIs at the beginning and ending of a Web page. It can be used to wrap documents for a standard look and feel for a site (or to insert banners on any given document in a site). Currently known to support mod_perl, PHP and Apache JServ. Should support just about any type of handler. Moodle 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134153/ Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Netware 6. It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, chats, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, workshops, and assignments. It has been translated into over 33 languages, with more on the way. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT or Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teaching. NASM - The Netwide Assembler 0.98.37 (Devel) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134240/ NASM is an 80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It supports a range of object file formats including Linux a.out and ELF, COFF, Microsoft 16-bit OBJ and Win32. It will also output plain binary files. Its syntax is designed to be simple and easy to understand, similar to Intel's but less complex. It supports Pentium, P6, MMX, 3DNow! and SSE opcodes, and has macro capability. It includes a disassembler as well. Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacement beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134222/ The purpose of this project is to provide an open source replacement for all Exchange functionality. This includes, but is not limited to, email, groupware, and instant messaging. It will tie together existing open source projects, and provide an easy to use installer. OpenPlugin 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134190/ OpenPlugin is an architecture written in Perl which manages plugins for Web applications. It allows you to incorporate any number of plugins and drivers into your Web application. For example, the Log plugin has drivers for logging to STDERR, files, syslog, email, and so on. The Session plugin has drivers for storing sessions in files, databases, and the like. Changing drivers is easy; you just change the driver name in a config file. There are plugins which abstract Apache::Request and CGI.pm, allowing you to build applications that can work seamlessly under mod_perl or CGI. If you want to move your application from one environment to another, you can just change the driver being used in the config file. OpenSched 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134170/ OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project. For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc. OpenThought 0.71 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134188/ OpenThought is a powerful and flexible Web application environment. OpenThought applications are different from other Web applications in that all communication between the browser and the server is performed in the background. This gives a browser the ability to receive data from the server without ever reloading the currently loaded document. Data received can be displayed automatically on the existing page, can access JavaScript functions and variables, and can load new pages. Additionally, OpenThought completely manages all of your session data for you. These features give the look and feel of a full-blown application instead of just an ordinary Web page. OperaHotlist2HTML 2.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134228/ OperaHotlist2HTML is a script that converts Opera Hotlist files into HTML 4.01-compliant Web pages. Pan 0.14.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134209/ Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. PHP vCard Creator 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134172/ PHP vCard Creator is a PHP function for creating vCard files conforming to the vCard 3.0 specification. phppdflib 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134235/ phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF files. It focuses on being easy to use, without requiring special Web server configuration. It currently supports automatic JPEG image embedding, as well as manual embedding of bitmapped image formats. Several methods of text placement (specifically designed for easy layout) are supported. PHPX 3.1.1 (PHPX 3.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134216/ PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site. pLog 0.1RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134061/ pLog is a blogging system designed with the idea of "plug and blog", so minimal configuration is required to start blogging. Easy to use, it has all the features one would expect: articles, a commenting system, categories, a powerful template system, translations to several languages out of the box, generation and aggregation of RSS sources, statistics, notification of updates via the XML-RPC ping protocol, and support for Trackback requests. It supports multiple blogs per installation and more than one user per blog, so it is equally suitable for personal journals and for sites wishing to offer such service to casual users. python-fchksum 1.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134158/ python-fchksum is a module used to find checksums of files (or stdin). It supports md5, crc32, cksum, bsd-style sum, and sysv-style sum. The advantage of using fchksum over the Python md5 and zlib(.crc32) modules is both ease of use and speed. You only need to tell it the filename, and the work is done by C code. Samba 3.0RC2 (3.0.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134210/ 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. Scribe Email Client 1.86-test35 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134155/ Scribe is a cross platform email client, address book, and calendar. It is small, fast, and easy to install. It has multi-language support, and currently includes English, French, Chinese, Italian, Czech, Spanish, German, and Dutch. It is very expandable via a plugin interface, and uses its own HTML engine (and not IE when run on Windows). It supports POP3, [E]SMTP, MIME, IMAP4, and MAPI. An integrated contact database and calendar are included. Scrubber 0.0-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134212/ Scrubber is a server-side, high performance, extendable, SMTP-independent mail content filtering system. It supports global, per- domain, and per-user configurations with caching support. Any number of configuration storage mechanisms are supported through the plugin interface. It supports anti-virus scanning, whitelist/blacklist matching, Bayesian probability scoring, and attachment blocking. Clients exist for SMTP-level integration in the common client-server architecture. Additional clients can be created for any mailer on any platform. SimpleData 3.0.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134230/ SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory, invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended. SingIt Lyric Displayer 0.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134205/ The SingIt Lyric Displayer is an XMMS plugin which displays formatted lyrics, including id3v2xx lyrics. It consists of the displayer and an integrated editor which allows one to easily insert time stamps, edit the text, and export & strip HTML. SlackUpdate 0.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134085/ SlackUpdate is a bash script that can be used to check for, download, and install Slackware updates. It currently supports Slackware 8.1-9.0. Snownews 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134231/ 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. SSHKeychain 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134200/ SSHKeychain is a graphical front-end for ssh-agent and ssh-add with all the features offered by both of those programs, and more. StarDict 2.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134165/ StarDict is an international dictionary written for the GNOME environment. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern matching, scan selection word, and fuzzy query, etc. TextMaker rev 391 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134167/ TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files. uClinux 2.4.22-uc0 (2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134157/ uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux. UNFS3 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134192/ UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification. It is designed to be portable to different operating systems, with built-in Linux and Solaris support. Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134185/ VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of the Internet. Walter 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134162/ Walter will intercept keystrokes and insert text to the Web page being viewed. The idea is to turn the Web browser into a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Main uses for Walter might be as a replacement for a textarea in chats and bulletin boards or content management systems. WebList 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133951/ WebList is a PHP script that allows users who access the script to browse the contents of a directory on a Web server directly with their Web browser. XzibitIRCD a2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134160/ XzibitIRCD is an Unreal-based IRCD that includes commands such as addoper adv protection and 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.
