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About: freshupdate is a shell script that, when used with xtail or equivalent, will send the freshmeat.net headlines to your root window. It is meant to be run hourly via cron. Changes: Various cleanups were made. Some unnecessary comments were removed. A variable was added for choosing between xtail, roottail, etc. A scripting error was corrected. The process of killing of the previous xtail was cleaned up.
About: libmng is the reference library for MNG, the animation extension to the popular PNG format. It provides powerful animation features combined with PNG's robustness and patent freedom. Changes: Initial Freshmeat announcement.
About: libgaudio is a C/C++ library to facilitate easy incorporation of sound and sound effects into games. Samples are loaded into memory and playback is then triggered or stopped. The system mixes any number of concurrently playing samples together (up to a predefined maximum). It is also possible to include a background MP3 soundfile in the mix. Changes: The licensing was changed to a dual MPL/GPL license. A function was added to load left or right channel only. Unique ID generation was added to control individual playing samples.
About: KUnit is a tool to convert between different units. It currently supports conversion to and from various units in the following categories: acceleration, angle, angular acceleration, angular velocity, area, bits and bytes, capacitance, charge, colors, current, energy, force, illuminance, inductance, length, luminance, magnetic flux, mass (or weight), power, pressure, shoe sizes, SI prefixes, specific heat, temperature, thermal conductivity, time, torque, velocity, viscosity (dynamic), viscosity (kinematic), voltage, and volume. Changes: The category "Volume" stopped offering a "Convert to:" menu after the last update. This bug may have caused segfaults on some machines. This is fixed now.
About: phpSearchDoc is a program that aims to do for PHP developers what Javadoc does for java developers. It is a script that parses PHP class definitions, extracting function and variable names, as well as comments, and dumping this data into a database. The script itself is built in Perl, but PHP is used for search and display. Search is powered by SearchForms, and display by EnzymeTemplates (both are GPL modules released as part of the Enzyme open-source project). Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: SearchForms is a modular system for creating HTML forms that can generate an arbitrary SQL statement. Using the objects provided by SearchForms, you can quickly and easily create a dynamic user interface for searching a database. SearchForms is part of the Enzyme open-source project. Changes: A new demo, also released as a separate module (phpdoc), many bugfixes, and improvements to the API to make it more modular and extensible.
About: GNU ccScript offers a class extensible threaded embedded scripting engine for use with the Common C++ GNU package. This engine is also used in Bayonne (the GNU telephony server), and in TOSI (FreeBSD and GNU/Linux PBX integration servers). This engine differs from traditional scripting systems in that it is used to script near real-time state-event systems through deterministic callback step execution rather than the linear and non-deterministic fashion of embedded script libraries such as tcl, and libguile. Changes: Major ccscript language changes, support for compiler directives, template support and include file processing, and locally scoped module partitioning of individual script files.
About: myPHPCalendar is an attempt to make a Web-based calendar with all the features needed for a workgroup enviroment. This includes one form acting as both a public and private calendar as well as the ability to show an event to a group of users. Both PHP4 and PHP3 are supported. Changes: Fixes for the install database scripts that would cause new installs not to work.
About: SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site. Changes: Miscellaneous bug fixes were made. PHP function prototype statusbar tips were added.
About: sms-queue handles an SMS queue for small networks or single user machines. It is designed for areas where many SMS messages are sent. It does not actually send the SMS itself, but instead calls an external application (depending on the SMS gateway you want to use) via a simple standard interface. The communication between client and server is based on a simple ASCII protocol over TCP/IP which should make it easy to develop your own frontend. Changes: A functional splitting mechanism for long messages, and additional support for a configuration file and global job ID management.
About: amber aims to be an easy-to-use granular synthesis tool for Linux to assist composers and electronic musicians in creating interesting and complex sounds. More information on the theory and application of granular synthesis techniques can be found at http://shoko.calarts.edu/~eric/gs.html. Changes: Initial release. Includes support for up to 5 incoming audio streams, and 5 different methods of generating grains. It reads and writes AIFF files only. Support is present for scripting and batch processing, configuration files, and command line switches.
About: LaTeX2HTML is a convertor written in Perl that converts LaTeX documents to HTML. It is useful for the Web display of scientific papers. Changes: Detection of Ghostscript 6.x.
About: Replicator is a set of scripts to automate the duplication of a Debian GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another. Replicator makes an effort to take into account differences in hardware (like HD size, video card) and in software configuration (such as partitioning). After the initial configuration, the scripts will create a bootdisk that allows you to completely (re)install a Debian box by booting from the floppy and answering a yes/no question. It works with Debian 2.1 (stable) and frozen (potato). Changes: Many sanity checks were added. Heavy code cleanup was started. Many little bugfixes were made.
About: whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily freshmeat newsletter. It shows only news items that you haven't seen before (so you don't have to read about every update of applications that you aren't interested in). You can also set up a list of "interesting" applications where you want to be informed of every update. Changes: Initial Freshmeat announcement.
About: XMLBoard is an XML-driven multi-forum message board written in Perl. It stores its posts in XML format, and uses the Perl module XML::Parser to read them and show HTML to the users. It can be easily set up for several forums and several designs, with one administrator per forum. XMLBoard has other nifty features such as cookies to remember the users' names. Changes: New additions include an administration feature to delete posts by date, more appearance configuration, and other minor changes.
About: MersenneTwister is a C++ class for generating 32-bit random numbers as integers or floating-point. Seeds can be obtained automatically from /dev/urandom or system time, and the generator state may be saved and restored. It includes an example program and performance tests. Changes: A bug which occasionally returned a number from uninitialized memory was fixed.
About: The rfbproxy can be used for recording screen updates from a VNC server, or key/mouse events from a VNC viewer. Screen updates can be played back and viewed using vncviewer. Changes: First announcement.
About: rfbplaymacro lets you send keyboard/mouse events to a VNC server, using a script file. The companion program rfbproxy can record scripts for rfbplaymacro to use. Changes: First announcement.
About: Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree, combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches. Changes: First announcement.
About: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers. Changes: This release adds the AWAY command, updates to the compilation environment, ^U functionality, key exchange protocol enhancements, and bugfixes. This release fixes the bug that caused problems when compiling with gcc-2.95.
About: Riscose is a high-level RISC OS emulator for Linux which currently will run grep given a little help. RISC OS coders past and present are very welcome to submit emulations of their favourite RISC OS modules in C. The object of the project is to get Zap running under the emulator. Changes: Initial release.
About: The Bluetail Ticket Tracker (BTT) is a system for creating, storing, and keeping track of tickets. A ticket describes an issue of some sort. It can, for example, be a Trouble Report or a ToDo note. BTT also makes it possible to store customer information, which can be coupled to a ticket. BTT comes with a wiki-style knowledge base and an automatic mail store. Changes: This release adds new features (mail storing and mail alert handling), a command line interface, and minor enhancements and bugfixes.
About: sms-queue handles an SMS queue for small networks or single user machines. It is designed for areas where many SMS messages are sent. It does not actually send the SMS itself, but instead calls an external application (depending on the SMS gateway you want to use) via a simple standard interface. The communication between client and server is based on a simple ASCII protocol over TCP/IP which should make it easy to develop your own frontend. Changes: Initial Freshmeat announcement.
About: Gentry aids in the entry of data into a MySQL database through the use of a GUI. It requires a database and table on a local MySQL server and connects using your username. From there, the program builds a data entry screen based on the table columns. Changes: This version introduces ENUM data type support. Currently, you must enter ENUM data types by hand to get such items into the database. A focus change when clicking on Clear was fixed.
About: Gronk is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. It generates heavily-hyperlinked Web pages listing all of your ripped CDs, by extracting information from CDDB data. These Web pages allow easy selection of songs or albums to play, and when nothing has been explicitly selected, it selects songs randomly. Playback is done via either XMMS or mpg123. Changes: A new script for generating fake-but-plausible CDDB data given a set of MP3 files, changes to the display of compilation albums with a secondary frameset, so that it's easier to scroll through a huge list of comps, and the 'recently played' page shows whether the songs were random, or requests.
About: XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System. These screen savers also work on Mac OS (X11 is not required). More than 200 screen savers are included. Changes: A new hack (nerverot), various improvements to bsod, shadebobs, petri, webcollage, sonar, bubbles, and xsublim, and minor fixes in extrusion, maze, flow, and the Makefiles.
About: routeplanner is a highway trip planner, designed for planning trips between cities. Currently includes two databases of North American highways, with other areas planned for the future. Changes: The database editor is now complete, and databases can now be loaded and saved in compressed (gzip) format. Some external dependencies were removed (the command-line client should now run on a bare Python install; it even runs--slowly--with jpython), and there are new routing preferences for toll roads and scenic routes, and improvements to both databases.
About: The goal of the Pango project is to provide an Open Source framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text. It uses Unicode for all of its encoding, and will eventually support output in all the world's major languages. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: gnochive is a GNOME frontend for all common archivers under Linux. Changes: A fix for recursing directories when creating an archive, Drag'n'Drop for rar archives, and updates to Spanish translations.
About: McFeely makes it possible to run multiple programs, in a specified order, on multiple hosts. It was created to solve the problem of automatically managing users at an ISP where the users have resources like home directories on multiple machines. Changes: mcfeely-ttpd (the client side listener) does more verbose logging via syslog.
About: smtm (Show Me The Money) is a Perl/Tk ticker, profit/loss calculator, and chart tool. It can display up to ten fields per share, among them company name, price, absolute and relative price changes as well as net wealth change (if the number of shares held is supplied). Other assets such as options, mutual funds, currencies are also supported. Foreign stocks are treated via cross-currency pairs that translate into domestic units. Charts can be launched with one click, and all the charts available at Yahoo!, including all of the advanced moving average and technical analysis features, can be displayed. Stocks can be added and deleted, and the selection can be stored. smtm has been used with US, Canadian, European, Asian, Australian/New Zealand, and South American stocks. Firewalls are fully supported, including user/password support. Changes: More and better support for Asian markets like Singapore, HongKong, Thailand, Taiwan, and better support for European markets as well.
About: Libnids is a library that provides the functionality of one of the NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) components, namely E-component. Libnids code watches all local network traffic, cooks received datagrams a bit, and provides convenient information about them to the NIDS analyzing modules. Libnids performs assembly of TCP segments into TCP streams, IP defragmentation, and TCP port scan detection. Changes: A bunch of small bugfixes and new features, support to capture packets on all interfaces using libpcap 0.5, and new libc5 and Alpha platform support.
About: Big Brother is a combination of monitoring methods. Unlike SNMP where information is just collected and devices polled, Big Brother is designed in such a way that each local system broadcasts its own information to a central location. Simultaneously, Big Brother also polls all networked systems from a central location. This creates a highly efficient and redundant method for proactive network monitoring. Changes: A security fix for versions 1.3b through 1.4h1 dealing with BBDISPLAY.
About: photoarchive allows you to organize your personal photos into a Web album. All data is stored in a MySQL database. The program is written in PHP. Changes: First public release.
About: IP Filter is a TCP/IP packet filter suitable for use in a firewall environment. To use, it can either be run as a loadable kernel module (recommended) or incorporated into your kernel. Scripts are provided to install and patch system files as required. IP Filter also supports transparent proxying via packet forwarding, including round-robin forwarding to achieve load-balanced proxy.
About: coffeetalk is a script to aid in the beverage choosing process. Changes: Initial release.
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