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Subject:    [fm-news] Newsletter for Saturday, December 17th 2005
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Date:       2005-12-18 8:10:06
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Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2005/12/17/
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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (53) :::

[001] - alph 0.15 
[002] - AsmSrc 0.9.13 
[003] - Avango 1.0.1 
[004] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2005-12-17 
[005] - Beesoft Commander 2.02.2 
[006] - Bocken 0.5.3 
[007] - bpkg 0.5 
[008] - cd player 0.4a (Stable)
[009] - cryptmount 0.0.3 
[010] - CTB 0.5 
[011] - CvsGraph 1.6.0 
[012] - DisableBackspaceNavigation 0.1 
[013] - DrQueue 0.63.3 (Testing)
[014] - Eligante 0.3 
[015] - errhdl 0.2 
[016] - ExtenDB Parallel Server Standard Edition 0.9 
[017] - FakeIKEd 0.0.3 
[018] - Full Text for SQLite3 0.2.1 (0.2.1)
[019] - GLSOF 0.10.0 pre-alpha1 
[020] - Grsync 0.1.1 
[021] - ISlack 1.2 
[022] - Java GetOpt Library 1.0.1 
[023] - John the Ripper 1.6.40 (Development)
[024] - Joyce and Anne 2.1.8 (Development)
[025] - Ladder 1.3 
[026] - libcommoncpp 0.0.1 
[027] - libdejector 1.0 
[028] - LibDsk 1.1.8 (Development)
[029] - libDSP 5.1.0 (Development)
[030] - libebt 1.2.1 
[031] - Linux Quake Howto 2.01 
[032] - Magellan Metasearch 017 (Engines)
[033] - mwcollect 3.0.2 
[034] - NanoVM 20051217 
[035] - Nematocyst 1.0 
[036] - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.12 
[037] - Open Administration for Schools 1.96 
[038] - Openmailadmin 0.8.2 
[039] - PHP Running Management 1.0 
[040] - PhpWatchDog 1.16.7 
[041] - PyChoReLib 0.0.1 
[042] - reacTIVision 1.0 
[043] - Remote Python Call 1.1 
[044] - Resubmit 0.2 
[045] - rxvt-unicode 5.9 
[046] - smtp-vilter 1.2.2 
[047] - TkDVD 3.9.0 
[048] - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 1.50-pre10 (UADE2)
[049] - XMMS Jogdial Plugin 0.1 
[050] - Xyria:CDPNNTPd 0.1.7 
[051] - Xyria:DNSd 0.7.1 
[052] - Zend Optimizer 2.6.0 
[053] - Zina 0.12.10 (Development)


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::: R E L E A S E   D E T A I L S :::

[001] - alph 0.15 
  by Corcalciuc V. Horia (http://freshmeat.net/users/SevenRains/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:33

Artistic Software
Communications
Communications :: BBS

About: alph implements and analyzes historical and traditional ciphers and
codes, such as polyalphabetic, substitutional, and mixed employing
human-reconstructable algorithms. It provides a pipe filter interface in
order to encrypt and decrypt block text to achieve transparency. The
program is meant to be used in conjunction with external programs that
transfer data, resulting in transparent encryption or decryption of
information. The program can thus be used as a mail filter, IRC filter, IM
filter, and so on. 

Changes: The TEA cipher has been temporarily removed. Support for
computing string permutations and several hashing functions have been
added. The help text displacement has been fixed so that alph properly
displays its usage, and the manpage has been updated to reflect the
changes. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alph/

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[002] - AsmSrc 0.9.13 
  by Jeff Owens (http://freshmeat.net/users/rabidrecluse/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:07



About: AsmSrc decodes Linux executables and generates assembler source or
a patch file. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asmsrc/

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[003] - Avango 1.0.1 
  by Jürgen Wind (http://freshmeat.net/users/jogo_sf/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 22:57



About: AVANGO is an object-oriented framework for the development of
distributed, interactive VE (Virtual Environments) applications. Data
distribution is achieved by transparent replication of a shared scene
graph among the participating processes of a distributed application. A
sophisticated group communication system is used to guarantee state
consistency even in the presence of late joining and leaving processes.
The familiar dataflow graph found in modern stand-alone 3D-application
toolkits extends nicely to the distributed case.

Changes: This is a minor bugfix release which fixes some small but nasty
bugs in the system. It should be source code compatible with 1.0.0. Main
development continues on CVS HEAD, which will not be compatible with
1.0.0. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avango/

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[004] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2005-12-17 
  by Terry Burton (http://freshmeat.net/users/terryburton/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:34

Information Management
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale

About: Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many
barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of
converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the
printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement the barcode
generation process whenever your language needs change. The project
supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E,
ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2
of 5, and Codabar.

Changes: The renderer has been modified to plot the symbol from the
current point rather than the origin. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/postscriptbarcode/

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[005] - Beesoft Commander 2.02.2 
  by PiotrPsz (http://freshmeat.net/users/PiotrPsz/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:16



About: Beesoft Commander is a file manager (like Norton Commander) for
Linux. It is based on Qt-GUI.

Changes: Many parameters are now saved when the program closes and are
restored when the program next starts. For better operation on laptops,
buttons were added to the button bar for selection, unselection, and
reversing of selected files on both panels. The same options are also in
the program menu. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/besc/

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[006] - Bocken 0.5.3 
  by Magnus-swe (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnusswe/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:08



About: Bocken is a package manager that handles forward and reverse
recursive dependency resolving, installations, uninstallations, and
install logging, and patching, unpacking, and integrity checks. It does
not rely on a database and configuration files are made in an XML-like
format. It handles even the most locked down, proxied networks very well
and has an intrinsic adaptability with LFS and "from source
distributions".

Changes: Bockenlog logged too much due to a slight typo. A missing include
was added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bocken/

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[007] - bpkg 0.5 
  by Alec Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/alecthomas/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:08

System :: Archiving :: Packaging

About: bpkg is a utility that tries to simplify the process of trying out
new programs from source. For most packages, this can be as simple as
"bpkg <url or tarball>". bpkg will download, extract, configure, compile,
install, generate a package in your system's native format, and finally
integrate that package into your system's packaging system so that you can
remove it cleanly. It has auto-detection for Arch Linux, Slackware, Red
Hat, Gentoo, and SuSE (though not all packaging back-ends are complete).
bpkg is not intended as a replacement for normal packaging utilities. 

Changes: The build section was refactored so that it's cleaner.
Self-packaging was fixed so it should actually work if you don't already
have installwatch installed. The --build-with option was added. By using
--skip-build and --install-with, bpkg can now be used as a substitute for
checkinstall. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bpkg/

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[008] - cd player 0.4a (Stable)
  by Tino Reichardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/mcmilk/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:32

Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio

About: mcdp is a really small cd player for Linux with a curses-like user
interface. It compiles against dietlibc, supports minimal remote/local
cddb/freedb track data, different playmethods, and volume control. 

Changes: This release fixes an argv[1] bug and problems in draw.c. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcdp/

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[009] - cryptmount 0.0.3 
  by rwpenney (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwpenney/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 03:07

Security :: Cryptography
System :: Filesystems

About: cryptmount is a utility for GNU/Linux operating systems which
allows an ordinary user to mount an encrypted filesystem. cryptmount was
written to address differences between the capabilities of the loopback
device and the newer, preferred, device-mapper mechanisms of the 2.6
kernel series, which make it more difficult for a non-root user to
configure the devices necessary for access to an encrypted filesystem.
After the initial configuration of the encrypted filesystem, an ordinary
user can mount and unmount the filesystem on demand, solely by providing
the decryption password. 

Changes: Improved error detection and a fix for a non-default key cipher
bug.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cryptmount/

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[010] - CTB 0.5 
  by Elvis Pfützenreuter (http://freshmeat.net/users/epx/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:18

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: CTB is an personal accounting software. It implements double-entry
accounting, hierarchical, account plan, and all reports that a
professional accountant would expect. 

Changes: This version has been fully translated to English. Some bugs have
been fixed. New fields were added to the SQL tables for interoperation with
the upcoming CTBClient (a mobile client for smartphones). The license was
changed to the LGPL. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctb/

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[011] - CvsGraph 1.6.0 
  by CvsGraph (http://freshmeat.net/users/CvsGraph/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:04

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Version Control

About: CvsGraph is a utility for generation of graphical representation of
revisions and branches from a CVS/RCS repository.

Changes: Dynamic colors and strings based on revision and branch content
were added. This improves identification of patterns like author, date,
state, or other CVS information. Merge lines with multiple searches were
added so that merge lines can be of different colors depending on the
tagging scheme used within the same image. There are also several bugfixes
for parsing fields and compatibility with cvsnt. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvsgraph/

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[012] - DisableBackspaceNavigation 0.1 
  by Clemens Fuchslocher (http://freshmeat.net/users/fuchslocher/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:44

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: DisableBackspaceNavigation is a small extension for the Firefox Web
browser which removes the back navigation function from the backspace key. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disablebackspacenavigation/

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[013] - DrQueue 0.63.3 (Testing)
  by Jorge Daza Garcia Blanes (http://freshmeat.net/users/Comadreja/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 01:17

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Drqueue is a distributed rendering queue. It helps manage jobs on a
render farm. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Windows,
supports Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Bmrt (Renderman), 3Delight,
and Pixie out of the box, and can support any other renderer or computing
task that can be handled via scripting.

Changes: This release included DrKeewee, a Python CGI and Web server for
checking the status of the queue. Several bugs regarding shared memory
handling of environment variables were fixed. New CPU detection routines
were implemented for FreeBSD. Some Mac OS X fixes were made for the
compilation of the Python bindings.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drqueue/

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[014] - Eligante 0.3 
  by Mardy (http://freshmeat.net/users/mardy/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:18

Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Email

About: Eligante is software for archival, management and browsing (with
full-text search functions) of all your communications, be it via email,
chat (IRC, ICQ, MSN, etc.), or even messaging Web sites (hi5, orkut,
etc.). Messages are fetched from their original source and stored in a
MySQL database. A Web interface allows you to search all data. The
strength of eligante lies in the ability to tie all the various accounts
your friends may have into a single virtual account. In this way, you can
see all the conversations you had with someone, independently of where the
conversation took place.

Changes: MS Windows support was added. An internal lightweight HTTP server
was added for those who don't want to install Apache. SQLite support was
added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eligante/

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[015] - errhdl 0.2 
  by Jan Behrens (http://freshmeat.net/users/jbehrens/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 03:13

Software Development

About: liberrhdl is a small C library that offers error handling methods
similar to the exception handling in C++. In the event of errors, no
exception objects are thrown, but an error class name and an error message
are set, and execution continues at the next "OnError" statement. The
library can be seen as a nice frontend to setjmp/longjmp. It is thread
safe and supports the use of POSIX threads. 

Changes: This release added specific support for POSIX threads, included a
wrapper for regular expression functions, and included an example program.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/errhdl/

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[016] - ExtenDB Parallel Server Standard Edition 0.9 
  by ExtenDB (http://freshmeat.net/users/extendb/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 01:27

Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: The ExtenDB Parallel Server is a clustered database solution for
data warehousing and business intelligence. It leverages the PostgreSQL
database running on PC-based commodity hardware, and intelligently
coordinates work between them. This allows for the scaling out of
databases to handle large data volumes quickly.

Changes: This release added support for PostgreSQL 8.1.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/extendb/

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[017] - FakeIKEd 0.0.3 
  by Daniel Roethlisberger (http://freshmeat.net/users/roe/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:15

Security :: Cryptography

About: Fiked is a fake IKE daemon that supports just enough of the
standards and Cisco extensions to attack commonly found insecure Cisco
PSK+XAUTH VPN setups in what could be described as a semi-MitM attack.
Basically, knowing the pre-shared key, also known as shared secret or
group password, the VPN gateway can be impersonated in IKE phase 1, in
order to learn XAUTH user credentials in phase 2. The configuration
supported by fiked is IKE aggressive mode using pre-shared keys and XAUTH.
Supported algorithms are DES, 3DES, AES128, AES192, AES256, MD5, SHA1, and
DH groups 1, 2, and 5. Main mode is not supported. 

Changes: A portability update was made, so FakeIKEd now also builds on
Linux. libnet support is now optional. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fiked/

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[018] - Full Text for SQLite3 0.2.1 (0.2.1)
  by pierre aubert (http://freshmeat.net/users/pierreaubert/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:41

Database
Text Processing :: Indexing
Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: Full Text for SQLite3 is a full text indexer for data stored into a
sqlite3 database. The text fields stored in the database can be split
word-by-word and stored in a form suitable for lookup. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fulltext4sqlite3/

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[019] - GLSOF 0.10.0 pre-alpha1 
  by gnele (http://freshmeat.net/users/gnele/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 03:16



About: GLSOF is a GUI for LSOF. 

Changes: This version can control multiple instances of lsof using a query
editor. You can refresh a single query or all queries. A simple statistic
window that shows the number of files for a single process was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/glsof/

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[020] - Grsync 0.1.1 
  by OPByte (http://freshmeat.net/users/opbyte/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 03:11

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring

About: Grsync is a GUI for rsync, the command line directory
synchronization tool. It supports only a limited set of rsync features,
but can be effectively used to synchronize local directories.

Changes: "Session" support for remembering multiple settings was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grsync/

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[021] - ISlack 1.2 
  by iurisoft (http://freshmeat.net/users/iurisoft/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:05

Security

About: ISlack is a security focused distro. Most of the numerous
security-related software is suited for penetration testing of your
network. There are also security tools for testing your local security and
IDSs for monitoring. The configuration of ISlack is hardened by default:
(listening for connection) services are turned off, and incoming ports are
closed.

Changes: The kernels are now patched with grsecurity by default. The chpax
and paxctl programs were added to control the Grsecurity PAX feature. Over
50 MB of new penetration tools were added. This release also includes
OpenOffice.org 2.0.0, Linux kernel 2.4.32, Linux kernel 2.6.14.3, and many
updates. 

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/islack/

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[022] - Java GetOpt Library 1.0.1 
  by Bernhard Fastenrath (http://freshmeat.net/users/fasten/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:06

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: The Java GetOpt library implements option parsing and a common
online help behaviour, including an XML format for topics, command, and
options (which can be queried with '--help --xml') and support for online
browsing with '--help --browse'.

Changes: The getopt library can now choose the pluggable look and feel of
an application with a standard option "--plaf". A new file of default
options (.prefs/default.options) can specify a set of common default
options for all programs using the getopt library, such as the PLAF. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/getopt/

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[023] - John the Ripper 1.6.40 (Development)
  by Solar Designer (http://freshmeat.net/users/solardiz/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:14

Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Systems Administration

About: John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for
many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different
architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to
detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash
types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as
Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types
are added with contributed patches.

Changes: Many enhancements to the code have been made, including to the
handling of hex-encoded hashes (such as LM hashes), the Makefile, the "p"
(pluralize) wordlist rules command, unafs, and charset files handling. A
few bugs have been fixed. The charset files have been updated and included
with this development version, a new pre-defined "incremental" mode "Alnum"
(for alphanumeric) has been added, password.lst (the common passwords list)
has been updated. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/john/

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[024] - Joyce and Anne 2.1.8 (Development)
  by John Elliott (http://freshmeat.net/users/johnelliott/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:34

System :: Emulators

About: Joyce and Anne emulate the Amstrad PCW series of computers. Joyce
emulates the 8000, 9000, and 10 series; Anne emulates the PcW16. 

Changes: Directories on the host PC can now be used as disc images without
the need for any special software within the emulated PCW environment. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyce/

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[025] - Ladder 1.3 
  by deadsea (http://freshmeat.net/users/deadsea/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 22:59

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Ladder is a Java clone of a popular arcade game for the CP/M
operating system. It is an arcade game similar to Donkey Kong, but in
which the graphics are all created with ASCII characters. 

Changes: Background color issues under Java 1.5 were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ladder/

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[026] - libcommoncpp 0.0.1 
  by SonarNerd (http://freshmeat.net/users/sonarnerd/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:26

Software Development :: Libraries

About: libcommoncpp is a library of commonly used C++ classes. For
example, it contains classes for memory management, threading, time,
sockets, strings, and more. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libcommoncpp/

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[027] - libdejector 1.0 
  by rjh (http://freshmeat.net/users/rjh/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:05

Database
Security

About: Libdejector provides a simple, easy-to-use set of libraries which
help Web developers give their database queries a great degree of
resistance to SQL injection attacks. It currently provides Python bindings
to protect PostgreSQL 8.0.3 through 8.0.5. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdejector/

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[028] - LibDsk 1.1.8 (Development)
  by John Elliott (http://freshmeat.net/users/johnelliott/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:34

System :: Emulators

About: LibDsk is a library that attempts to create uniform functions for
accessing floppy drives, raw "dd" disk images, and disk image files in
various emulator formats. Its intended use is for emulator authors; it
also includes some sample tools to read sectors from discs in CP/M, DOS,
and Acorn formats. There is special-case code for direct access to the
floppy controller under Linux, and to access the floppy driver under
Windows. Java (JNI) bindings are included.  

Changes: The Apridisk driver now supports disc images that start with a
"creator" record. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdsk/

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[029] - libDSP 5.1.0 (Development)
  by SonarNerd (http://freshmeat.net/users/sonarnerd/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 22:53

Software Development :: Libraries

About: libDSP is a C++ library of digital signal processing routines,
including standard vector operations, digital filtering, and transforms.

Changes: Support for SSE3 has been implemented. Some non-related parts
have been removed and the library now uses libcommoncpp. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdsp/

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[030] - libebt 1.2.1 
  by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:00

Software Development

About: The libebt library provides a clean way of getting human-readable
backtrace messages in C++. It uses the RAII (resource acquisition is
initialization) idiom to manage backtrace stack items without requiring
macros, control structures, or an external debugger. 

Changes: A convenience constructor was added to Backtraceable<> to
simplify creating instances from other Backtraceable<> instances (possibly
with different tags). The configure script was tweaked to do a better job
of selecting the correct -W compiler switches. The include directives in
the pthread test case were fixed to work correctly when using the Intel
compiler. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libebt/

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[031] - Linux Quake Howto 2.01 
  by stevenaaus (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevenaaus/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:02

Documentation

About: The Linux Quake Howto is a modern guide to Quake, a collection of
the most useful tips, and a pointer to the best resources still available
on the Web. The focus is on GLQuake, but it also covers Quakeworld, Quake
II, and III. 

Changes: QuDos has recently ported several Q1 engines, including NehQuake
and JoeQuake, to Linux. Some of them also work with FreeBSD. The 2.01
release of the Quake-HOWTO now includes information about these ports. The
installation and trouble-shooting sections were improved. A link to a
patched TyrQuake binary was added. 

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxquakehowto/

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[032] - Magellan Metasearch 017 (Engines)
  by badibouzouk (http://freshmeat.net/users/badibouzouk/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:34

Communications
Information Management
Information Management :: Records Management

About: Magellan Metasearch is a modular meta search engine, enabling users
to monitor as many search engines as they want. It provides a complex query
language with standard boolean operators, meta-operators (to search through
pages' metadata), and proximity operators. This language enables users to
perform far more complex queries than what common search engines currently
support. It can be fed any custom sources, since its abstraction layer
manages the search results and their meta tags in a uniform way. In
conjunction with the local process scheduler (such as "cron"), Magellan
enables you to save your requests and replay them later automatically; new
results are sent through email and RSS in realtime. Magellan also provides
full anonymity through smart multi-proxy support. 

Changes: This release updates the Google Blog search engine driver and
fixes the URL output format. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/magellan-metasearch/

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[033] - mwcollect 3.0.2 
  by Georg 'oxff' Wicherski (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxff/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 21:32

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: mwcollect is an easy solution to collect worm-like malware in a
non-native environment like FreeBSD or Linux. The first versions were used
to collect binaries for botnet monitoring, and bots are still what it is
mostly collecting. Some people consider it a next generation honeypot;
however, that comparison often leads to the misunderstanding that
computers running mwcollect can actually be infected with the malware,
which is not the case.

Changes: A vuln-ms0551 module (tcp/1025 MSDTC action; Dasher.A-C) was
added. Shell parsing was improved. Fixes were made regarding startup file
permissions. Various bugfixes were made. Other changes were done. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mwcollect/

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[034] - NanoVM 20051217 
  by Till Harbaum (http://freshmeat.net/users/harbaum/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:07



About: NanoVM is a tiny (less than 8 kB of code including simple native
classes and a bootloader) implementation of the Java VM. It currently runs
on Linux and the AVR microcontroller family. Unix/Linux is supported as the
main development and testing platform, whereas the VM is primarily intended
to be used on tiny embedded devices such as the AVR. The VM can very easily
be ported for other targets.

Changes: The support tool (NanoVMTool) has been converted from using
javax.comm to rxtx, thus allowing it to now work under Linux, Windows, and
MacOS. Several improvements were done to the VM. Plenty of new native
methods have been added for generic AVR support. LCD support has been
added together with example schematics on which to base your own projects.
The Mega32 is now officially supported and can be used as an example to
expand the NanoVM to further target platforms. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nanovm/

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[035] - Nematocyst 1.0 
  by Deekoo L. (http://freshmeat.net/users/deekoo/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:03

Communications

About: Nematocyst is an active counter-measure for the spamforo trojan
botnet. Spamforo makes the infected machines send piles of spam;
nematocyst emulates an infected machine, but doesn't send any spam. The
intent is to make the trojan network useless by loading it with fake slave
clients. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nematocyst/

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[036] - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.12 
  by Amir Szekely (http://freshmeat.net/users/kichik/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:10

Software Development :: Build Tools

About: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and
user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a
script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only 34 KB. It
features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an
easy-to-use plugins system 

Changes: This release fixes endianess detection issues in the build system
and includes an improved tutorial. It also contains the usual collection of
bugfixes, improvements, and translation updates. 

License: zlib/libpng License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nsis/

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[037] - Open Administration for Schools 1.96 
  by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:07

Education

About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools
run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school,
one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site. 

Changes: Updates were made to the gradebook and report card system. Other
bugfixes and minor improvements were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openadmin/

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[038] - Openmailadmin 0.8.2 
  by hurrikane (http://freshmeat.net/users/hurrikane/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:35

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: Openmailadmin is a little administration interface to every
complete IMAP mail server daemon. It supports every feature IMAP provides,
and fits in most MTA configurations. A key feature is the non-standard,
generic administration hierarchy which not only seperates "normal users"
from "administrators", but enables the mailserver-master to create
instances between them. You will be able to let other users create their
own sub-users and thus either share a single mail server between different
organizations or project your company's employee structure. It excels with
features such as regex addresses and folder ACL management.

Changes: Cyradm-library has been completely rewritten. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmailadmin/

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[039] - PHP Running Management 1.0 
  by TotoPas (http://freshmeat.net/users/TotoPas/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:13

Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Records Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: PHP Running Management is a set of scripts for runners. Users can
enter intermediate times of training or race performance for calculating
various statistics (distance, avg speed, time/ km, projection on different
distance, etc.) 

Changes: Management of equipment (shoes, watch, or any other kind of gear
you use while running) was added. You can attach one of each kind of
equipment to every run, and then you can see the total time/distance spent
with your gear. Support for vvo2max was added. The speed of every segment
is shown as a percentage of the vvo2max, which is useful for interval
training. A new version of phpPolarTools (0.3) was integrated for more
flexible and configurable HR graphs. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phprunman/

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[040] - PhpWatchDog 1.16.7 
  by Paolo Conti (http://freshmeat.net/users/pconti/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:44

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: PhpWatchDog is a network monitor application which provides a
simple way to check if a service (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.) is running or not.
It can send email to the server's administrator to report malfunctions. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwatchdog/

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[041] - PyChoReLib 0.0.1 
  by Stefaan (http://freshmeat.net/users/Stefaan/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 22:22

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis

About: PyChoReLib is a Python library which transforms lists of notenames
to a chordname. The system uses built-in music theory knowledge to make it
easy and quick to add support for new chord types. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pychorelib/

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[042] - reacTIVision 1.0 
  by Martin Kaltenbrunner (http://freshmeat.net/users/modin/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:13

Scientific/Engineering :: Image Recognition
Software Development :: User Interfaces

About: The reacTIVision framework is a multi-platform computer vision
application which allows the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers.
reacTIVision allows the rapid developent of table-based tangible user
interfaces. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/reactivision/

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[043] - Remote Python Call 1.1 
  by ganges master (http://freshmeat.net/users/gangesmaster/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:41

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: Testing
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Remote Python Call allows you to connect to an RPyC server and have
full, transparent control over it. You can access the server's modules,
classes, functions, and objects, just as if they were local to your
process. It is good for distributed testing (running centralized tests on
many machines/platforms), distribution of workload with centralized
control, and remote administration. 

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpyc/

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[044] - Resubmit 0.2 
  by Felix Suwald (http://freshmeat.net/users/ripit/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 07:33



About: Resubmit is a script used to correct faulty entries in FreeDB. It
is intended for use with Konqueror (KDE) while browsing freedb.org, but it
also works on the command line. With one click, a new message will be
prepared, ready for resubmission. All words will have first character
uppercase, and some standardization is enforced according to the naming
rules of freedb.org. Corrections can be made before sending the improved
message to freedb.org. 

Changes: This release improves the correction algorithm. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/resubmit/

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[045] - rxvt-unicode 5.9 
  by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:20

Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Internationalization
Terminals

About: rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt,
modified to store text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4) and to use
locale-correct input and output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at
the same time, including Xft fonts.

Changes: This release fixes signal handling in the urxvt daemon so that it
doesn't stay around longer than necessary. It also fixes a potential bug in
the menu code that likely caused crashes with some menus. The program no
longer crashes when a broken fontconfig version returns invalid data, but
instead aborts with a proper error message. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rxvt-unicode/

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[046] - smtp-vilter 1.2.2 
  by micro systems (http://freshmeat.net/users/msys/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:10

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Security

About: smtp-vilter is a high-performance content filter for sendmail,
which detects email viruses and spam. It can pass, discard, or simply mark
an email based on the results of a content scan. It relies on third-party
products for the actual content scan. It uses the milter API to
communicate with sendmail, and backends to communicate with the actual
scanning engines. The backends can be chained to perform a series of
checks on each message in one run. 

Changes: PF (packet filter) integration was improved. Reactions on spam,
viruses, and unwanted content can now be specified with a timeout: "react
on virus add to table blacklist for 24 hours". 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtp-vilter/

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[047] - TkDVD 3.9.0 
  by regis (http://freshmeat.net/users/regis1/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:16

System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: TkDVD is a GUI for growisofs, which is a part of dvd+rw-tools. It
allows burning DVD+R/RW and -R/RW discs easily.

Changes: File list saving/loading and DVD copying support were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkdvd/

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[048] - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 1.50-pre10 (UADE2)
  by Heikki Orsila (http://freshmeat.net/users/shaihulud/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:02

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator (UADE) plays most Amiga music file
formats by simulating Amiga hardware and software. It plays over 180 Amiga
music file formats and has three frontends for playing: a command line
tool, an XMMS plugin, and a Beep Media Player frontend. 

Changes: Two major bugs in audio output that were caused by audio DMA
running over the sample buffer and the anti interpolator were fixed. The
audio emulation code was cleaned. A bug where uade.conf options and
command line options conflicted was fixed. New EarAche and EMS replayers
were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uade/

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[049] - XMMS Jogdial Plugin 0.1 
  by Pixis5 (http://freshmeat.net/users/Pixis5/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 13:26



About: XMMS Jogdial Plugin is an XMMS plugin for the Sony Vaio PCG-C1XS.
It allows the user to use the jogdial to control volume, playback, and the
playlist. It is known to work on PCG-C1XS, but probably also works on other
Sony Vaio C1 series picturebooks with a jogdial. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-jogdial/

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[050] - Xyria:CDPNNTPd 0.1.7 
  by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:21

Communications :: Usenet News
Internet
System :: Networking

About: Xyria:CDPNNTPd is a minimalistic, easy to configure NNTP server for
Unix. The server is part of the Xyria-Networkservices project and is IPv6
ready. 

Changes: The logging behavior was improved. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdpnntpd/

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[051] - Xyria:DNSd 0.7.1 
  by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 11:19

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Security
System :: Networking

About: Xyria:DNSd is an high performance DNS server that  supports only
the most important features and  resource records while being extremely
fast and secure. It also supports round-robin load balancing.

Changes: The performance for accessing the internal database was improved.


License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xyriadnsd/

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[052] - Zend Optimizer 2.6.0 
  by Torsten (http://freshmeat.net/users/040982/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:05

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: The Zend Optimizer uses multi-pass code optimizations to double the
running speed of PHP 4.0 applications. This is done by running an
optimization of the code created by the run-time compiler, before the code
is executed. PHP code is typically executed 40-100% faster.

Changes: Support for PHP 5.1.1 and later was added. 

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zendoptimizer/

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[053] - Zina 0.12.10 (Development)
  by Ryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/pancake/)
  Sat, Dec 17th 2005 23:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, a Podcaster and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded
into an existing Web site, or be used as a module in Postnuke, PHPNuke,
Xoops, Mambo, Drupal, phpWebSite, e107, or DragonflyCMS. It is similar to
Andromeda.

Changes: This release adds a statistics summary page and makes genre
generation optional. It also fixes an .asx playlist bug and optimizes some
SQL. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zina/



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