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About: Geheimnis is a KDE application that "wraps" around GnuPG/PGP's irksome command-line interface and makes it easier for users to use these programs. It is made in the style of Win31's PGP Shells that were GUI-based wrappers around PGP2's command line interface. Changes: Made keyrings part of the profile. Begun to add profile editing (not finished). Fixed 2-week old bug with regards to QString from char * conversion.
About: GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically. Changes: lib: VTY Input buffer overflow bug is fixed. zebra: IPv6 network deletion related bug is fixed. bgpd: ip community-list is added. bgpd: Some route-map command `set community', `match community' is added. ospfd: DR election bug is fixed. ospfd: Neighbor State Machine goes to Full.
About: RPGBoard is a WWWBoard-style message board script. It includes multiple forum support, thread modes, a message previewer/editor, message tags, selectable backgrounds, default options for the regulars, name detection via cookies, recent message date/time color coding, the ability for users/admins to (un)delete messages, top poster statistics, a hidden spoiler message box, the ability to ban IP addresses, a word filter to block cuss words, and much more. Changes: Now works on sites with seperate CGI servers; redirected errors on nslookup to /dev/null; permissions work for servers that don't use suEXEC; background URL no longer required (for people that want color schemes but not background pics); added option to disable e-mail functions; root message thread is now a user option; added root message only option for index files; various bug/cosmetic fixes
About: Spruce is an X11 email client written in GTK+. It is geared towards being small and fast, supporting all the common features that users want or need without sacrificing usability or functionality. Changes: Fixed a bug that saved "Sent items" in the wrong file.
About: The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting flight simulator ideas. We are developing a good basic sim that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. Changes: Many changes.
About: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network. Changes: This is BIND 8.2.1. Highlights vs. BIND 8.2: Bug fixes, especially to DNSSEC, TSIG, IXFR, and selective forwarding. Performance and portability improvements, and lint removal. Use best SOA rather than first-better when selecting an AXFR master. $TTL now accepts symbolic time values (such as "$TTL 1h30m"). "ndc reload" now accepts a zone argument, for single-zone reloads. ndc is better behaved; is verbose or quiet when appropriate. event and error reporting improvements.
About: CrashMail II is a Fidonet tosser that can handle JAM and *.msg, and has a built-in AreaFix. It can be used with Linux, Win32 and OS/2. Changes: This version contains mainly fixes for bugs found in version 0.4.
About: Sambaconfig is a collection of cgi scripts, which calls a common executable (smbread) to generate forms to edit the Samba smb.conf file. It can also be used as a standalone program called by inetd. This application preserves the original smb.conf layout, including comments and include files. Deletions from the config file(s) are made by commenting out the parts to be deleted. It is easy to add custom forms to edit parts of the smb.conf file. Examples included. Changes: Update for new config parameters added in samba-2.0.4b.
About: Siag Office is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple embedded interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other programs to run inside the main document. The supported interpreters are SIOD, Guile, Tcl, and Python. Changes: PW: Go to line, insert special characters, improved interface to external converters: register-converter allows PW to convert files it can't handle directly into another format which it can handle. Siag: Lotus 123 reader can make A1 references, new function @LOG10 is defined as log10 to avoid being interpreted as A1 reference, adjust column width and row height automatically by double-clicking on header, resize cells using the mouse inside the grid, autofill by clicking and dragging in grid Updated and bugfixed Croatian, Danish, French and Swedish message files - All: Tool for translators to look for new keys, fixed buffer overrun in HTML reade, keypad bindings, memory leak in fit_block_width
About: EO is a templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation library. It contains classes for any kind of evolutionary computation (specially genetic algorithms) you might come up to. It is component-based, so that if you don't find the class you need in it, it is very easy to subclass existing abstract or concrete class. Changes: A new floating-point genetic operator has been added. Minor changes made to the genetic mastermind app.
About: TiK is a pure TCL/Tk implementation of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It has most of the features the native Win32 and Mac clients have, plus some extras. It includes a graphical buddy list display, full font support, graphical emoticons, away messages, buddy pounce, buddy ticker, IM/Chat capturing, message broadcasting, a GUI preferences system, and much more. TiK's expandable nature allows the addition of new features through packages. Changes: Hopefuly fix the BadWindow X Error caused by the new flashing scrollbar, support im/chat background colors (can ONLY be turned on from tikrc, see example.tikrc for how), ignore align html tags, print out and error if we can't find the example.* files (some distributions have not been placing the example.* files with TiK.), -roast option should work.
About: The OpenCA Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, full-featured and Open Source out-of-the-box Certification Authority implementing the most used protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. OpenCA is based on many Open-Source Projects. Among the supported software is OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, Apache Project, Apache mod_ssl. Changes: CA can now export newly issued certificates to removable media; RA can now import new certificates from removable media; Modified INSTALL instruction (was badly wrong); Improved installation script, install-ca (Still not working other targets on the Makefile); Includes patches directory (misc/ssl/patches) for OpenSSL patching (0.9.3 supported);
About: Pavuk is a Web grabber with an optional GTK GUI, and optional support for downloading with multiple threads. It supports the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTP via SSL, and Gopher protocols, as well as HTTP GET, and POST requests. It is capable of filling HTML forms while downloading HTML trees, and lets you mirror Web documents for local browsing. You can even synchronize changes to these documents. Recent versions also support processing of Javascript patterns in HTML pages. Pavuk have JavaScript bindings that allow writing of own scripts to perform special tasks. Changes: Many fixes and changes in HTML parser code, better support for Cascading Style Sheets, fetching of URLs from clipboard, repared encoding of URLs, get SSL stuff working with non-blocking IO, a lot of changes and bug fixes.
About: Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection. Changes: A new CD can now be ripped while the last is still encoding, LCD colors now override the system theme, and numerous bugs have been squashed.
About: The Webalizer is a Web server log analysis program. It is designed to scan web server log files in various formats and produce usage statistics in HTML format for viewing through a browser. It supports wu-ftpd xferlog-formatted logs.
About: Terraform allows you to create fractal terrain (also called a height field) and transform it using a number of algorithms. It is meant to be a tool for those who want to generate digital terrain models for use in raytracing or other simulations. Terraform features different views and colormaps and has a preview mode which features interactive real-time rotation of the terrain object. Terraform is written for the GNOME desktop environment. Changes: added support for resource files, contour line code, many fixes, portability enhancements
About: Gnofin is a light-weight personal finance application for GNOME. It is designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. Features include multilevel undo and redo, cut/copy/paste, QIF and CBB import, and support for mixed local and foreign currency accounts. Changes: This release adds some minor conveniences for the user. Window size and column positions are now preserved from session to session, and the list view is automatically scrolled to make newly inserted transactions visible (centered if possible).
About: The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized.
About: Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep look & feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf, execute program on incoming mail, execute program on mouseclick, show animations and more... Changes: IMAP should work with most servers and you can choose the mailbox now.
About: Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. Changes: Too many to list! Some of the new features: capability to read/process files generated by tcpdump, ability to send alert messages to Windows machines via WinPopup and Samba, six new rule options including minimum fragment size alerts, nmap/Queso fingerprint detection, rules based logfile naming, new rules content parser, USAGE file helps you get started with effective configurations quickly.
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