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It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services. Aldo 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135828/ Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It has 6 skills and 4 speeds. Amoeba Tools 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135570/ Amoeba Tools is a collection of objects for Sun One Active Server Pages for Unix platforms. Objects included are AmoebaHTTP, Amoeba Command, Amoeba ScriptTools, Amoeba Spellcheck, Amoeba RegExp, and Amoeba Chart. Animal Shelter Manager 1.21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135801/ Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more. Avi2VCD 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135745/ Avi2VCD is a bash script that converts an AVI file (DivX, xvid, or AVI) to a VCD. It uses transcode and vcdimager. BBclone 0.32.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135834/ BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids which displays individual logs as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats, except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date, referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist. Bloof 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135804/ Bloof is an infrastructure for analytical processing of version control data. Its main application, the Bloof Browser, provides detailed visualizations of the evolution of software projects. Bloof uses version control data for analyzing the evolution of software projects. Bloof is designed to be integrated into other applications, providing a Java API access interface and an XML output format. Other Tools for Bloof are: Bloof Shell, Bloof Script, and Bloof Metric SDK. BomberClone 0.10.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135835/ BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs. Colorer Library beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135798/ Colorer Library provides source text syntax highlighting and text parsing services for host applications. It colorizes source code on host editor systems in more than 100 formats. It uses the powerful HRC format (XML, regexp, context-free grammars), allowing it to support any language. The parser can search and build lists of special text tokens (function lists, syntax errors) and search and indent programming language constructions (brackets, paired tags). config_api 1.3.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135810/ config_api is a library that allows you to easily read/write/syntax check/erase configuration files. Cygwin 1.5.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135818/ Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a number of useful utilities. EasyChem 0.1 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/135787/ EasyChem is designed to draw high-quality molecules and chemical formulas (organic molecules in particular). It can export to many formats (e.g. Fig, PostScript, and LaTeX). Elk 3.99.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135786/ Elk (the Extension Language Kit) is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It can be used as a standalone Scheme interpreter, or as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++ through the libelk library. Filelight 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135819/ Filelight graphically represents a file system as a set of concentric segmented rings, aiming to show where diskspace is being used. Segments expand from the center, representing files and directories. The size of segments is proportional to the size of the files they represent. Directories have child segments which represent the files they contain. Filelight performs a similar function to the command line tool du, but all the information is shown in a compact graphical fashion. flP5 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135793/ flP5 is easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to extend full-featured PIC (and most of the serially programmed device) programming software. gdu A.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135841/ GDU is equivalent to the 'du' command-line tool. It displays a graphical tree showing the disk space used by each file/folder. GNOME Structured File Library 1.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135805/ The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading and writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for future conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and is used in gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also part of the AAF format. Gnu Gatekeeper ACD 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135809/ The GnuGk ACD does automatic call distribution for the Gnu Gatekeeper. It is the first step to a VOIP call-center solution based on GnuGk. Incoming calls are routed to agents based on different distribution algorithms. Highlight 2.0-9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135815/ Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database. ICEWall Network Access System 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135790/ ICEWall Network Access System is a modular billing and security system. The main module is "IC-Radius" (a Radius protocol implementation); it is needed to work with VPN clients. It can set traffic limits and time limits, block viewing of external sites, etc. Th statistics module provides information about individual clients and total usage. ID3 Tag Framework 0.93 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135807/ ID3Tag.framework is a Cocoa-based framework for reading and writing ID3 tags. It supports 1.1 and 2.0 - 2.4 tag types. Issue Dealer 0.9.7 (Main) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135788/ The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information. jSaluki 0.81 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135792/ jSaluki is a small, easy to use Java hyperelliptic curve cryptography library. A simple hyperelliptic crypto system is implemented in the example file. KCDict 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135796/ KCDict is a frontend to the popular CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary. It provides lookup of Chinese characters by radical and stroke count and by pinyin code, allowing regular expressions. User entries can be stored and edited in a separate user dictionary. Kripper 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135813/ Kripper is a GUI front-end to some of the Linux command-line tools for ripping a VCD and converting it into DivX. The goal of this project is to produce a GUI by which the above task can be done with very few mouse clicks. libESMTP 1.0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135824/ LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail functionality is not the program's primary purpose. LibESMTP is not intended to be used as part of a program that implements a Mail Transport Agent. libthai 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135822/ libthai is a set of Thai language support routines aimed to ease developers' tasks to incorporate Thai language support in their applications. It includes important Thai-specific functions (e.g., word breaking, input and output methods, and basic character and string supports). MacXM 1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135823/ MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection. Mathomatic 10.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135838/ Mathomatic is a small, portable symbolic math program that can solve, simplify, combine, differentiate, and compare algebraic equations. Complex number and polynomial arithmetic are supported. mdate 1.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135784/ Mdate is a freely-available mayan date utility. It calculates Mayan Long Counts, Julian Day Numbers, and dates of the Mayan Tzolkin and Haab calendars. Modeling Framework 0.9pre15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135811/ Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Its main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Moon Shine 4 -- The Hitch Hiker 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135764/ Moon Shine 4 -- The Hitch Hiker is a CGI telling a tale of when someone forgot to fill the gas tank. It is part of a series of images which show scenes lit by moonlight. mrtg-ping-probe 2.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135832/ mrtg-ping-probe is a ping probe for MRTG. It is used to monitor the round trip time and packet loss to networked devices. MRTG uses its output to generate graphs visualizing minimum and maximum round trip times or packet loss. net2ftp 0.72 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135791/ net2ftp is a Web-based FTP client, offering standard FTP client functionality for Web pages. Ocrad 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135789/ Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image in PBM format and outputs text in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) charset. It includes a layout analyser that is able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs. PAR Packaging and Deployment tool 0.74 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135750/ PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl programs, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. PHP GEN 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135806/ PHP GEN reads the list of tables in a database, lets you select one, then reads the structure of it, suggests a basic (modifiable) configuration, and generates good-style and easily maintainable PHP code capable of listing, adding, editing, and deleting records. Both the generated code and the engine itself use Pear::DB for the database-abstraction layer and Smarty for the presentation/interface layer. phpSANE 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135794/ phpSANE is a Web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP. Now you can scan with your Web browser, too. PTlink IRCd 6.16.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135839/ The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd. It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network. python3ds 0.3.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135842/ python3ds is a small set of Python routines for reading 3ds archives. It features support for animations, textures, and collision detection, and it is compatible with pyopengl and pygame. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135812/ QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API. RLIB 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135754/ RLIB is a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) report generator that makes it possible to easily create professional reports in PDF, HTML, TEXT, and CSV from one simple XML report definition file. SiEd 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135840/ SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as existing editors do not take full advantage of the keyboard. SnortPing 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135778/ SnortPing is a preprocessor plugin for the Snort Intrusion Detection System. It detects packets that are destined for unused IP address as determined by the built-in ping tool or any custom command, and can effectively and quickly catch internal network scans by unruly users, other malicious activity, and even network misconfigurations. sybadmin 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135837/ Sybadmin is a set of bash scripts which could be useful for the administration of a Sybase ASE server. These scripts should help you perform such activities as backing up databases or transaction logs, saving vital server information (e.g. devices and logins), checking database consistency with dbcc commands, and checking database usage. Transit Executive 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135825/ Transit Executive is a real-time strategy simulation game in which you build transit systems, make profits, and attempt to take over your competition. treewm 0.4.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135827/ treewm is a window manager that tries to implement a new concept. In addition to the client windows, the user can create desktops which can themselves contain windows and desktops. By arranging the windows in such a tree, the user is able to manage tasks efficiently. ULN - User Level Networking 20030913 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135795/ User Level Networking is software designed to allow the dynamic allocation of IP addresses. The basic idea is to give different IP addresses to different users, thus identifying the UID-HOST pair with an IP address. It includes a patch to the kernel which must be applied to every client in the LAN, a suid executable which will be used by the users to get their IP address from the server and activate it on a virtual interface (like eth0:*) on the local computer, and an executable which will be launched by sshd on the server host. Universal FPS Organiser 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135820/ UFO (Universal FPS Organiser) is a way to connect to your preferred FPS game server. It will let you retrieve your friends in a game such as Enemy Territory. uSTL 0.4-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135816/ uSTL is a partial implementation of the Standard Template Library which reduces code size by factoring memory management code into a non-template base class and deriving containers from it. vim2html 1.33 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135836/ vim2html is a small program that will export any Vim- editable file into well-formed HTML, simulating a Vim session. It fully supports Vim colorization (customizable) and authentic Vim syntax highlighting. This program provides an excellent method of presenting programs/HTML/scripts/etc. on the Web. It fully supports valid CSS and XHTML-1.0/Transitional or Strict with HTMLtidy. VIrus 0.0.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135830/ VIrus (VI resembling utility skeleton) was originally taken from busybox and stripped of most unrelated stuff. The intention is to provide a pure, minimalist VI implementation that allows you to switch off shell-escaping and other security risks by default, and allow the admin to offer an interim user to just have a vi as login-shell on a certain host, while allowing others to work with a resource-sensitive and small vi implementation for your OS bootdisks. Web-2-Database 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135829/ The Web-2-Database System is an XML dialect and Java package to reduce the need to hardwire Java server-side code to a given database schema. The system features support for dynamic Web clients, and runs where Java 1.4.x+ and MySQL 3.2.x runs. xCHM 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135817/ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
