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Subject:    [fm-news] newsletter for Thursday, January 04th
From:       freshmeat daemon <freshd () freshmeat ! net>
Date:       2001-01-05 4:59:02
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This is the official freshmeat newsletter for Thursday, January 04th. In
total, 55 articles have been posted and are included in this email.

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  [ article list ]

o Coyote Linux 1.27 (Console/Mini Distributions)
o Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.2 (Console/MP3)
o Disckret 1.0 (Console/Video)
o netsed 0.01b (Console/Firewall and Security)
o Jenesis Language Syntax API 0.1.0 (Development/Java Packages)
o Jeremi 0.8beta (X11/Java)
o Sympa 3.0 (Daemons/Mailinglist Managers)
o getKC600 0.0.1 (Console/Drivers)
o IP Accounting Daemon 1.0.2 (Console/Networking)
o ferm 0.0.10 (Console/Firewall and Security)
o mrtg 2.9.7 (X11/Monitoring)
o joyd 0.3.0 (Daemons/Hardware)
o SXM 1.0 (Development/Languages)
o phpSyndication 0.0.3 (Development/PHP Classes)
o pam_ldap 86 (Console/System)
o addluser.py .05 (Console/System)
o GNU Go 2.7.206 (Console/Games)
o Ora++ 1.1.0 (Development/Database)
o Karchiveur 2.0.1 (KDE/Utilities)
o Likken 0.1.0 (Web/Administration)
o asSQL 1.0 (Development/Database)
o EnRus dictionary tools 1.1pre (X11/Text Utilities)
o Tcl MCCP 0.4 (Development/Libraries)
o DNRD 2.9 (Daemons/DNS)
o libfget 1.0 (Development/Libraries)
o libtar 1.2 (Development/Libraries)
o epkg 2.0 (Console/Administration)
o Owl Intranet Engine 20010104 (Web/Applications)
o var'aq 010201 (Development/Languages)
o FreeLords 0.0.6 (X11/Games)
o PDAC 2.01 Beta (Development/PHP Classes)
o JChemPaint 0.8 (Console/Scientific Applications)
o unixODBC 2.0.0 (Development/Libraries)
o jPhoto 0.3.6 (Console/Graphics)
o KFileReplace 0.6.0 (KDE/Utilities)
o IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD 6.0-p1 (Daemons/IRC)
o Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.2 (X11/Education)
o MPI/Pro 1.6.1 (Development/Libraries)
o curl 7.5.2 (Console/Utilities)
o GNU TeXmacs 0.3.1-9 (X11/Editors)
o Web-FTP 1.5.2 (Web/Applications)
o ORBit-mt 0.5.5 (Development/CORBA)
o Disc-Cover 1.1.1 (Console/CD Writing Software)
o Sked 0.1.0 (Console/Utilities)
o Xcollector 3.0b (X11/News)
o proManager 2001-01-04 (Web/Applications)
o SecPanel 0.30 (X11/Communication)
o gquotes 0.2.25 (GNOME/Applications)
o PACT 0.9d (Console/Monitoring)
o Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.1 (Console/MP3)
o Conquest 7.1 (Console/Games)
o bibelot.pl 0.8 (Console/Text Utilities)
o JSX 0.7.1 (Development/Java Packages)
o Sensor Sweep Applet 0.19.5 (GNOME/Misc)
o hldfilter 2.0 (Console/eMail)


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     name: Coyote Linux 1.27
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:57 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Mini Distributions

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/changelog/

description:
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for people who have an
Internet connection that they wish to share with other computers on a
LAN. In addition to connection sharing, it also provides firewall
services to help protect the internal network. The goal of the Coyote
project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to share an
Internet connection.

changes:
A backout of the syslinux 1.50 upgrade as it does not seem to work
properly on some older hardware, and some additional security measures
in the default firewall scripts.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/

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     name: Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:56 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/MP3

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/download/

description:
UPPAMM, the Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager is a simple set
of Perl and PHP scripts which help manage large numbers of MP3 files.
The simple Web interface provides a powerful search system.

changes:
Two bugfixes for problems with a very large number of files (2000+).

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/

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     name: Disckret 1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:56 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Video

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/download/

description:
Disckret is an hack of xawtv (fbtv) to provide a TV descrambler for the
diskret algorythm used by canal+ Belgium or RAI in Italy.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/

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     name: netsed 0.01b
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:55 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netsed/download/

description:
netsed brings sed functionality to the network layer, allowing you to
change the contents of packets travelling through your gateway on the
fly, in a completely tranparent manner. It features basic expressions
and dynamic filtering, and cooperates with ipfwadm/ipchains transparent
proxy rules to pick specific packets.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/netsed/

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     name: Jenesis Language Syntax API 0.1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:52 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Java Packages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/download/

description:
Jenesis is a tool for dynamic generation of Java source code files. The
API is an abstraction of the Java language syntax. It is intended for
use by developers writing applications which dynamically emit source
code or require on-the-fly classfile generation. Automatic sourcefile
compilation in conjunction with Javac or Jikes is supported.
Documentation includes the Javadocs, the source code itself, and an
LDP-style User Guide.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/

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     name: Jeremi 0.8beta
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:52 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Java

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/download/

description:
Jeremi is a tool for realtime document sharing. It supports distributed
work on different documents or files by different people or project
groups. It offers an always-up-to-date view of the project and its
files and coordinates the dependency of the actual file status and
access to those files. Jeremi is written entirely in Java.

changes:
First beta-release.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/

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     name: Sympa 3.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/Mailinglist Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/changelog/

description:
Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can
cope with big lists (200,000 subscribers) and comes with a complete
(user and admin) Web interface. It is internationalized, and supports
the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, and chinese locales. A scripting language
allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to
an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa
provides S/MIME and HTTPS based authentication and encryption.

changes:
This is a major release, with the ability to list configuration
edition, new S/MIME encryption and HTTPS authentication, shared Web
space for each list, and new Web navigation ergonomics.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/

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     name: getKC600 0.0.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:14 EST
  license: Freeware
 category: Console/Drivers

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/getkc600/download/

description:
getKC600 is a tool for getting pictures from a Yashica (Kyocera) KC600
digital camera connected to a serial port.

changes:
First release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/getkc600/

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     name: IP Accounting Daemon 1.0.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 17:35 EST
  license: BSD type
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/homepage/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/changelog/

description:
IP Accounting Daemon (ipa) is a configurable IP accounting daemon. It
allows one to do IP accounting based on IP Firewall or IP Filter
accounting rules. It has a flexible configuration file with many
sections and options, including control over which time period to
account over.

changes:
OpenBSD support has been added. A new record is always appended to the
database when ipa starts. Bugs with timestamps have been fixed. A new
option, -p <pid-file>, has been added to ipa, which allows one to start
more than one copy of ipa. Database locking feature have been added, as
well as the lock_db, lock_wait_time and debug_lock parameters. The
reconfigure facility is now fixed; formerly, when ipa couldn't parse
the configuration file, it began to use some new settings

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/

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     name: ferm 0.0.10
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:34 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/download/

description:
ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It
allows one to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and
chains, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on
developing good rules, and less time on the proper implementation of
those rules. These rules will be executed by the preferred kernel
interface, such as ipchains and iptables, and in one pass. Firewall
rules can also be split into different files and loaded at will.

changes:
A new reverse operator, a fix for the fqdn spec bug, and a new
policy-only rule possibility.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/

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     name: mrtg 2.9.7
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:26 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Monitoring

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/changelog/

description:
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the
traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing
GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this
traffic.

changes:
A few updates, improvements, and enhancements.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/

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     name: joyd 0.3.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:20 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/Hardware

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/download/

description:
joyd is a very flexible program that allows you to execute commands via
a joystick or joypad attached to your computer. One simple possibility
would be to reboot when your keyboard is hung. It can use any device
supported by the Linux Joystick Driver. Helper applications allow you
to test the joystick status in your own shell scripts.

changes:
The way the actions are bound to the joystick has changed completely,
and a port to BSD has been started.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/

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     name: SXM 1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:19 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: Development/Languages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/download/

description:
SXM (aka CXEMA) is a portable implementation of the Scheme programming
language conforming to IEEE/ANSI and R^5RS specifications. It also
provides numerous language and programming environment extensions found
in Chez Scheme v.6 and supports SRFIs 0, 6, 8, 11, and 16. The
implementation is based on an optimizing bytecode compiler/VM and is
written in ANSI C and Scheme.

changes:
First public release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/

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     name: phpSyndication 0.0.3
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:19 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/PHP Classes

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/download/

description:
This library eases the syndication process. It provides a class
RSStoHTML which allows one to get a RSS source and translate it into
HTML.

changes:
A fix for a bug with semi-columns of encoded chars for PHP3 users.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/

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     name: pam_ldap 86
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:15 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Console/System

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/download/

description:
pam_ldap is a pam/ldap module that supports password changes, V2
clients, Netscapes SSL, ypldapd, Netscape Directory Server password
policies, access authorization, crypted hashes, etc.

changes:
Support for Start TLS in OpenLDAP, NDS, and Active Directory password
changing, support for 4.xx Netscape SDK, support for alternate
configuration files, a sample chfn/chsh implementation, use of GNU
autoconf/automake, and support for shadow passwords.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/

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     name: addluser.py .05
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:14 EST
  license: Public Domain
 category: Console/System

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/download/

description:
addluser.py is a simple Python app that provides adduser/useradd style
functionality. It takes input from the command line and creates an
entry in a pre-existing RFC2307-compliant LDAP server.

changes:
A fix for a Python-LDAP naming issue (now imports from ldap, rather
than implicitly _ldap), and password confirmation when adding a new
user.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/

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     name: GNU Go 2.7.206
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:12 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/changelog/

description:
GNU Go is free program that plays the ancient board game of Go. Its
original concept is based on the article "Programming the Game of Go",
Byte, Vol.6 No.4, by J. K. Millen. GNU Go has since evolved into a more
sophisticated program and after thousands of games played on the NNGS
Go server is rated around the 16 kyu level.

changes:
The 2.7 development series shows a major strength improvement from the
2.6 version. New development versions are available every day or two.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/

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     name: Ora++ 1.1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:58 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Development/Database

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/changelog/

description:
Ora++ provides an object-oriented interface to Oracle 8 through the
Oracle Call Interface (OCI). The style is similar to JDBC and other OO
database interfaces but includes C++ flavored features such as building
SQL statements with streams.

changes:
Bugfixes, more complete throw specs, and enhancements primarily to
Rowtype class and statement classes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/

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     name: Karchiveur 2.0.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:58 EST
  license: GPL
 category: KDE/Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/changelog/

description:
kArchiveur is a KDE utility to ease working with compressed files. With
kArchiveur, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, etc. files, and you
can add, remove, or view one or more files with a multiselection
window. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It
also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set
of floppies, and wizards, that will help you step by step to compile
and install software through karchiveur's interface.

changes:
The source code has been reorganized, and the interface is now in XML.
Moreover, dialog boxes have been enlarged to help the translator's job.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/

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     name: Likken 0.1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:56 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Administration

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/download/

description:
Likken is a simple interface for managing directories via the LDAP
protocol. It allows an end-user to view and edit information on the
directory (like his own information) without the need to know about
LDAP or to be helped by a system administrator.

changes:
Initial announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/

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     name: asSQL 1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:55 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Database

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/download/

description:
asSQL is a graphical SQL client for Linux. It works with most DBD
drivers available for the Perl DBI. Support for bind variables and
table-qualifier variables makes cutting and pasting from your code a
snap.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/

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     name: EnRus dictionary tools 1.1pre
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:54 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Text Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/changelog/

description:
The EnRus dictionary tools are Tcl/Tk scripts for reading a textual
(plain or compressed by gzip or bzip2) dictionary base and compiling
new dictionary bases from plain text files. It consists of a few Tcl
console scripts and a Tk interface to them.

changes:
Changes to the output concept, some new variables and removal of some
old ones (existing files enrusrc and .enrusrc should be corrected), and
a new ability to use index files.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/

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     name: Tcl MCCP 0.4
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:53 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/download/

description:
TCL MCCP provides a shared library extension to the TCL language which
adds support for Mud Client Compression Protocol.

changes:
First public release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/

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     name: DNRD 2.9
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/DNS

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/changelog/

description:
DNRD is a proxy DNS Daemon. It is useful for a home network where you
have multiple ISPs or VPNs. DNRD can be set up to forward all DNS
queries to the appropriate DNS server for each of your ISPs.

changes:
Fixes that were needed for some non-Intel platforms.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/

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     name: libfget 1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
  license: BSD type
 category: Development/Libraries

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libfget/download/

description:
fget is a commandline tool for mirroring remote files via FTP. It is
based upon the included FTP client library, whose API is designed to
resemble the normal Unix API for accessing files and directories. This
interface should make it very easy to integrate FTP support into other
applications.

changes:
First public release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libfget/

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     name: libtar 1.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
  license: BSD type
 category: Development/Libraries

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtar/download/

description:
libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both
the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU
extensions.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement; minor API changes to provide a cleaner
and more flexible interface to the calling application, and several
bugfixes.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtar/

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     name: epkg 2.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:51 EST
  license: freely distributable
 category: Console/Administration

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/download/

description:
epkg is a free, open-source package manager which uses the Encap
Package Management System (a method for flexibly handling installation
and management of third-party software on a Unix system). Encap places
each package in its own subdirectory, then automatically manages
symlinks to their appropriate places in /usr/local. It supports the
Encap 2.0 package format, which includes postinstall scripts and
prerequisite checking. Other features include builtin tar/gzip
extraction, optional builtin FTP support, transaction logging, and the
ability to automatically upgrade a package to the latest version.

changes:
A new "update" mode with integrated FTP support, new "check" mode to
verify a package's installation, better handling of different
compression formats, and a completely redesigned libencap API.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/

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     name: Owl Intranet Engine 20010104
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:48 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/download/

description:
Owl is a multi-user document repository (knowledgebase) system written
in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the Web.

changes:
Fixes for bugs relating to folder movement and creation.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/

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     name: var'aq 010201
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:47 EST
  license: MPL
 category: Development/Languages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/changelog/

description:
var'aq is a speculative exercise in language creation: what does a
programming language used by Klingons look like? It is a real
programming language (not just a toy) that tries to imagine what it's
like to be a hacker of the best-documented alien race in science
fiction.

changes:
Somewhat more of the spec has been implemented, and a translator
program has been contributed. Also, the arithmetic operator names have
been changed to reflect recent additions to the Klingon vocabulary
canon.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/

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     name: FreeLords 0.0.6
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:34 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/changelog/

description:
FreeLords is a turn-based strategy game similiar to W*rl*rds. It can be
played with friends on one computer or via network, and it is written
in C++ using Qt.

changes:
A new network mode, the player can now choose from different armysets,
and some bugfixes.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/

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     name: PDAC 2.01 Beta
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:31 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/PHP Classes

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/download/

description:
PDAC (PHP Data Access Class) is an abstracted data class for PHP 4.0.
It was created to address several issues: lack of database abstraction
in PHP, ability to prototype/develop in a lightweight database such as
MySQL and move to Oracle, etc. before deployment, rapid development,
and the ability to use a unified database object throughout the site
while still allowing for multiple queries and transactions. PDAC
currently includes Interbase, MySQL, ODBC, and PostgreSQL drivers.

changes:
A fix for a bug in the MySQL driver which prevented it from functioning
properly.

urgency:
high

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/

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     name: JChemPaint 0.8
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:30 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Console/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/changelog/

description:
JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like
those found in most chemistry textbooks.

changes:
Ability to clean up multiple molecules in one document, colouring of
substructures, ability to assign charges to atoms, and drawing of
implicit hydrogens. Structures can now be accompanied with some
properties (Generator, Software, CAS-number, and generation date),
ability to insert SMILES functionality (by entering them in a pop-up
window), help functionality with a complete user manual, an export
filter for SVG, and print capabilities.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/

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     name: unixODBC 2.0.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:26 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/changelog/

description:
The unixODBC project aims to provide UNIX applications with the same
ODBC 3.X API and facilities available under Windows. It provides a
Driver Manager that supports the ODBC 3.5 API and performs the ODBC 3
to ODBC 2 translations and UNICODE to ANSI conversion, a set of
graphical utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes
to be used by applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a
simple text based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others,
and a selection of templates and libraries that to aid in the
construction of ODBC drivers. It works with MySQL, Postgres,
StarOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl DBD::ODBC, Paradox 9, and many
other applications and drivers. Connection pooling is also provided for
application such as PHP.

changes:
UNICODE support, connection pooling, driver manager stats, support for
GNU portable threads, and assorted bugfixes.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/

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     name: jPhoto 0.3.6
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:26 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Graphics

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/download/

description:
Java USB Camera Tools handle cameras that support the Picture Transfer
Protocol (PTP) standard, a vendor-neutral standard for talking to
digital cameras using USB. It provides a protocol library and command
line tools, and it works nicely with GCJ, the GNU Compiler for Java.

changes:
Merging of some cleanups and a new SRPM so that users of RedHat 7 (and
compatible) operating systems, with GCJ support, can build jPhoto
binaries using just this package. It handles Kodak DC-4800 cameras
smoothly on the latest Linux kernels.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/

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     name: KFileReplace 0.6.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:24 EST
  license: GPL
 category: KDE/Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/changelog/

description:
KFileReplace can replace multiple strings by another string in all
files or directories.

changes:
A new simulation mode, commands to expand/reduce the result view, and
Debian packages.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/

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     name: IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD 6.0-p1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:22 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/IRC

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/changelog/

description:
The IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD adds several new features such as DCC
files blocking, color stripping, and /ungline functions.

changes:
Full integration with hybrid services (ircbg version) and with
SocksCleaner, and lots of new features.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/

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     name: Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:21 EST
  license: Free Trial
 category: X11/Education

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/download/

description:
Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is a complete typing course suitable for
beginners, advanced typists, adults, and children. It features two
games, animated diagrams, comments, progress reports, and much more. It
also includes networking capabilities, updated graphics, the ability to
import your own music, and password protection for student files.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement; support for Linux, networking
capabilities, updated graphics, password protection for student files,
and the complete removal of the 256 color resolution restriction.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/

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     name: MPI/Pro 1.6.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:19 EST
  license: proprietary
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpipro/homepage/

description:
MPI/Pro is a commercial-grade implementation of the MPI (message
passing interface) standard. It is used in high-performance parallel
computing, and is the "backbone" library for Beowulf clusters.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpipro/

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     name: curl 7.5.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:19 EST
  license: MIT
 category: Console/Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/changelog/

description:
curl is a tool for getting a file using URL syntax. It supports HTTP,
FTP, DICT, TELNET, HTTPS, LDAP, FILE and GOPHER as well as HTTP-post,
HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, passwords, portnumbers and proxies. curl
is built around libcurl, a multiprotocol portable file transfer library
for URL syntax.

changes:
New MIT/X licensing, sending FTP commands in single write()s, removal
of a file descriptor leak, improved quote command error checks (FTP),
and removal of a misaligned free() crash.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/

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     name: GNU TeXmacs 0.3.1-9
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:57 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Editors

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/changelog/

description:
GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG scientific text editor which was inspired
by both TeX and GNU Emacs. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an
interface to computer algebra systems. The program implements
high-quality typesetting using TeX fonts, but it is also provides a
user-friendly interface. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme
extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface
to specific needs and even to extend the editor.

changes:
This release starts a big restructuring of the TeXmacs data format,
which will take a few months. In the present distribution, the TeXmacs
file format should be readable by humans, although it remains possible
to save documents in scheme format. The selection mechanism has also
been improved; you can now use multiple selections and specify import
and export formats. Further changes concern a slightly improved
conversion algorithm to LaTeX and a new syntax for keystrokes which is
closer to the one used by Emacs.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/

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     name: Web-FTP 1.5.2
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:55 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/changelog/

description:
Web-FTP is a lightweight Perl/CGI FTP client that can provide quick,
easy, and (with an SSL-enhanced Web server) more secure access to your
FTP server. Designed with file management in mind, it supports uploads,
downloads, and all the usual tasks. No spool directories are used; file
transfers are relayed directly from the server to the client and vice
versa. It can also serve as an FTP client, allowing FTP access to
clients behind a firewall. You may view and edit files as well. Web-FTP
also has rudimentary CryptoCard support, for CryptoCard protected
servers.

changes:
This release fixes the bug that prevented Web-FTP from working under
Netscape Server.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/

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     name: ORBit-mt 0.5.5
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:54 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Development/CORBA

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/download/

description:
ORBit-mt is a multithreaded extension to ORBit.

changes:
The header files can now be included from C++ programs. Another bug for
very large transmissions has been fixed. ORBit-mt.m4 is now included
for your autoconf pleasure.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/

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     name: Disc-Cover 1.1.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:53 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/CD Writing Software

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/changelog/

description:
Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It
scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB database to build a
back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi, PDF,
Postscript, plain ASCII or a format suited for cdlabelgen.

changes:
This release adds an optional genre to front cover, adds a "generate
configuration file" option, changes the time format to ISO 8601,
removes obsolete flags and options, updates the English and Dutch
documentation, and adds bugfixes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/

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     name: Sked 0.1.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/download/

description:
Sked is a small curses based calendar and scheduling program. It keeps
track of your appointments and upcoming events. Its form is designed in
the spirit of Mutt and vim, and its functionality is designed in the
spirit of Gnome Calendar and Kalendar.

changes:
This release has been completely ported to Python. It uses the Python
pickle module rather than XML for data storage and the user interface
is much more streamlined.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/

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     name: Xcollector 3.0b
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:50 EST
  license: free to use but restricted
 category: X11/News

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/changelog/

description:
Xcollector (formerly known as newsrunner) connects to a news server and
fetches binaries from a selection of newsgroups. It has a GUI written
in GTK+ and includes a picture browser which lets you look at the
pictures you are currently downloading. A config interface let you
choose what kind of files you wish to fetch, and an extensive filter
dialog is available to filter out the spam.

changes:
This release adds a way to put articles back into the queue, fixes the
statistics page, adds the ability to skip articles as they are being
downloaded, and fixes a segfault bug with imlib.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/

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     name: proManager 2001-01-04
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:48 EST
  license: Freeware
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/download/

description:
proManager is a PHP/MySQL-based combination of a mind map, intranet,
project manager, and todo list. It features a task tree, an advanced
user hierarchy, task-related notes and forums, email-like messaging,
and multiple language support.

changes:
This release adds a Dutch translation and some missing strings in the
Spanish translation.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/

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     name: SecPanel 0.30
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:13 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Communication

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/changelog/

description:
SecPanel, implemented in TCL/Tk, serves as a GUI for managing and
running SSH (SecureShell) and SCP (Secure Copy) connections (GUI).
Nearly all connection-parameters are adjusted by one mouseclick
(compression, port-forwarding, etc.). It also manages the SSH-agent.
SecPanel works with ssh 1.2.x and OpenSSH.

changes:
The SCP GUI support has been added. Support is included for the
OpenSSH-suite. SecPanel asks for the user when connecting to sites. An
advanced script has been added for key distribution.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/

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     name: gquotes 0.2.25
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:08 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/changelog/

description:
Gquotes is a financial monitoring tool that lets you fetch quotes from
many public Web servers offering quotes services. It has configurations
for some sites like finance.yahoo.fr, nasdaq.com, and you can make your
own configuration for your favorite financial Web site. It features
configurable quote update frequency, configurable low and high bounds
alert, and computation of gain/loss at every update, all on a
per-symbol basis.

changes:
gquotes' ticker is more usable with its new 4-keys keyboard to
"navigate" the scrolling ticker.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/

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     name: PACT 0.9d
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:05 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: Console/Monitoring

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/changelog/

description:
PACT is a software package to do complete port accounting for
SNMP-manageable devices like routers, hubs, and switches.
Administration is done using an HTML interface with dynamic data fed
through PHP and MySQL database backend.

changes:
PACT now offers calculation of approximate monthly values for the
current month in both overview and customer view. The internal gfx tool
can be replaced by external programs such as MRTG or Cricket, or
deactivated completely.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/

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     name: Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 03:12 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/MP3

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/download/

description:
UPPAMM, the Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager is a simple set
of Perl and PHP scripts which help manage large numbers of MP3 files.
The simple Web interface provides a powerful search system.

changes:
Initial public release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/

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     name: Conquest 7.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:50 EST
  license: freely distributable
 category: Console/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/changelog/

description:
conquest is a real-time, curses based, multi-player space warfare game
originally written in ratfor for the vax/vms platform, and was an early
predecessor to netrek.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/

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     name: bibelot.pl 0.8
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:50 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Text Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/download/

description:
bibelot.pl is a Perl script that formats and converts text documents
into compressed PalmDoc .pdb files, suitable for reading on a Palm or
Handspring device with any standard PalmDoc reader (AportisDoc,
CSpotRun, RichReader, TealDoc, etc.). It was written primarily for
formatting etexts from the Project Gutenberg, but works well for most
text files.

changes:
This release matches more title entries from Project Gutenberg,
includes tweaks to the smart formatting which helps with badly
formatted text with short lines, and fixes a bug that didn't strip out
non-ascii characters in non-ascii character sets. This project has also
moved to Sourceforge, and now includes CVS development.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/

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     name: JSX 0.7.1
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:48 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Java Packages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/download/

description:
Java Serialization to XML (JSX) is a two-way bridge between XML and
Java. It achieves this mapping by data binding between objects and XML
with reflection, to create XML tags and attributes from classnames and
field names. You don't need to write parsing code; you don't need to
change your classes. So far, it handles: circular references, arrays of
arrays, private fields, and classes without a no-arg constructor. JSX
is lightweight.

changes:
This release fixes a NoSuchFieldException that occurred for a field
referring to an array of primitives, and corrects parsing leading white
in attribute values.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/

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     name: Sensor Sweep Applet 0.19.5
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:47 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/changelog/

description:
Sensor Sweep Applet is a GNOME panel applet that allows you to monitor
your system's health through the lm_sensors kernel modules. Sensor
Sweep is extremely configurable allowing you to specify exactly which
sensors you wish to monitor.

changes:
This release includes support for the newest GNOME panel sizes and
various bugfixes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/

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     name: hldfilter 2.0
posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:47 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/eMail

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/changelog/

description:
HLDFilter is an email filter which is more powerful and easier to use
than procmail. It can filter mail into separate mail folders, and
reject unwanted email (spam). Automated features allow you to auto
respond with contents of files or commands, as well as report spam to a
spammer's ISP. All messages can be logged and added to a statistical
Web page where you can analyse your email in a graphical format.

changes:
This release includes new graphical stats, an auto reporter of spam
which e-mails the spammer's ISP, forwarding of mail to other email
addresses, and more configurable options.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/

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