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David Weekly writes: "A new model is emerging from the Internet. It represents the culmination of years of incremental evolution in the structure of the network and the clients that feed upon it. It is based upon the same principles upon which the Internet was founded. It is this: the client is the server." [Comments are disabled]
About: getstockquote is a Perl script which fetches stock and mutual fund data for one or more ticker symbols and returns an HTML table on STDOUT with each stock's data, including last trade price, day high, day low, change, last trade date/time, volume, open, close, bid, and ask. It can look up information from NYSE, NYSE Europe, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Vanguard, ASX (Australian Stock Exchange), and TIAA-CREF Annuities. It is completely configurable via command line arguments, and can be easily used by more than one page/script/etc. with no modification. Changes: Initial release.
About: Gtk-Gnutella is a Unix Gnutella client using GTK+. Changes: First release.
About: mhash is a thread-safe hash library implemented in C, and provides a uniform interface to a large number of hash algorithms (MD5, SHA-1, HAVAL, RIPEMD160, TIGER, GOST). These algorithms can be used to compute checksums, message digests, and other signatures. The HMAC support implements the basics for message authentication, following RFC 2104. Changes: Bugfixes in hmac implementation, and removal of. MD2 (which was not free)
About: ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. Changes: A new expression-based Find feature, use of ImLib for rendering if available to produce a decent Small Icons display, and the minibuffer can be used for entering shell commands.
About: Prototype Makefiles allows for very fast project startups; often no editing of Makefiles is needed at all. It is a collection of shared Makefiles and Makefile templates. The shared Makefiles contain the rules for building a project, cleaning it and making dependencies etc. The Makefile templates contain the data that is specific for each project. This separation avoids duplication of code in Makefiles and is therefore extremely easy to maintain and extend. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: Figaro's Password Manager (FPM) is a GNOME application that allows you to securely store your passwords, which are encrypted with the blowfish algorithm. It allows you to copy passwords or usernames to the clipboard or primary selection. If a password is for a Web site, FPM can keep track of the URLs of your login screens and can automatically launch your browser. You can also teach FPM to launch other applications. FPM can sort your passwords into categories. Finally, it has a password generator that can help you choose good passwords. Changes: New security features not visible to the user: password files now have permissions set so that by default only the owner can read them, and all fields are now encrypted.
About: Gnometoaster is a full CD creation suite for X11 and GNOME. It can be used to copy and create data, audio, and mixed mode CDs on the fly or with precaching in both TAO and DAO mode. Data tracks can easily be created with the built-in file manager. GNOME drag-and-drop is supported throughout the program. Gnometoaster can also write MP3 files on the fly, is fully multisession capable, and can be used to encode all sorts of filetypes directly from audio audio tracks on a CD. Changes: Display of space already used on a destination CD in the fillstate bar, and some other enhancements and bugfixes.
About: xinetd is a replacement for inetd, the internet services daemon. Anybody can use it to start servers that don't require privileged ports because xinetd does not require that the services in its configuration file be listed in /etc/services. It can do access control on all services based on the address of the remote host, time of access, connection attempts, or process limits. Access control works on all services, whether multi-threaded or single-threaded and for both the TCP and UDP protocols. xinetd supports both internal access control, and the use of the libwrap library. IPv6 with access control is also supported. It can redirect service requests to other machines, and has the standard built in services, including tcpmux. Changes: Support for Mac OS X, a new include statement, inetd compatibility mode, and various fixes.
About: Xdialog is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the dialog and cdialog programs. It converts any terminal-based program into a program with an X interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use, and Xdialog adds more functionality such as a help button and box, a treeview, an editbox, file and directory selectors, a range box, and a calendar. It uses GTK+, and will match your desktop theme. Changes: Lots of bugfixes and improvements, and many new functions.
About: Moodss is a modular monitoring application, which supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.), databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, etc.), networking (SNMP, Apache, etc.), and any device or process for which a module can be developed (in Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, and C). An intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows the construction of dashboards with graphs, pie charts, etc., while the thresholds functionality includes emails and user defined scripts. Monitored data can be archived in a SQL database by both the GUI and the companion daemon, so that complete history over time can be made available from Web pages or common spreadsheet software. It can even be used for future behavior prediction or capacity planning, from the included predictor tool, based on powerful statistical methods and artificial neural networks. Changes: Dynamic module loading using the new "File / Load Modules" menu.
About: Temperature.app is a Window Maker applet which fetches local temperature information every 15 minutes from ftp://weather.noaa.gov/ and displays it (in Celsius or Fahrenheit). Changes: First release.
About: Toaster is a software testing tool for C/C++ programs on Linux/x86. It's based on a modified version of gdb. It analyzes programs compiled with EGCS 1.1.2 and allows you to perform various tests on all the functions, including unit tests, integration tests, and others. Changes: First freshmeat announcement.
About: MP3-Database is a tool to organize your MP3 collection. If you insert a CD with MP3 files in your CDROM drive, MP3DB can read all ID3 tags of the MP3 files. With this information MP3DB creates a database which can be searched for a specific song, artist, or CD. A GUI makes it easy to use the program. Any title found in the database can easily be added to a playlist or can instantly be played by XMMS. Changes: First release.
About: Half-Life Admin MOD is a plugin module to any Half-life mod that adds admin commands and user levels. You no longer have to risk giving out rcon access. It is very flexible to configure, supports reserving nicknames/playerslots on servers, and offers public kick and map voting. Changes: This release adds lots of new features, regex matches on usernames, better IP reservation features, re-coded file reading, and lots more.
About: Scandoc is a documentation generator, similar to JavaDoc or KDoc, which produces high-quality documentation by extracting specially-formatted comments from C or C++ source code. ScanDoc allows for themable documentation. In other words, you can format the resulting documentation to appear however you want, with frames, styles, indexes, etc. You can also create theme files which generate non-HTML output, such as ASCII text or PostScript. ScanDoc is also very small, making it easy to distribute with your applications. Changes: Several bugfixes have been made. The aesthetic quality of the default documentation theme has been improved.
About: mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1). It is based on the SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL and supports all SSL/TLS related functionality, including RSA and DSA/DH cipher support, X.509 CRL checking, etc. Additionally it provides special Apache related facilities like DBM and shared memory based inter-process SSL session caching. per-URL SSL session renegotiations, DSO support, etc. Changes: Just maintainance cleanups and fixes.
About: FutureSQL is a Rapid Application Development web database administration tool written in Perl. FutureSQL allows one to easily setup config files to view, edit, delete and otherwise process records from a MySQL database. It uses a data dictionary, configuration files and html templates, and allows "pre-processing" and "post-processing" on both fields, records and operations. It allows multiple views and operations on a data set, including the use of joined tables for queries and reports. A demo application with most of the features is included. Changes: A bug was removed from unescape() which, when applied to a string such as "like '%fast%'", turned the %fa into an accented 'ú'. Two more functions to the backup routine, namely, a 'select into outfile' routine and a 'normal_select' routine were added, along with html 'password' field functionality and a $chmod_backup_file flag. The documentation has been moved into a doc file.
About: GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. Changes: This is another release from the stable Pth 1.3 branch. It provides lots of back-ported bugfixes from the forthcoming Pth 1.4 branch to make the 1.3 series even more stable.
About: GNU shtool is a compilation of small but very stable and portable shell scripts into a single shell tool. All ingredients were in successful use over many years in various free software projects. The compiled shtool program is intended to be used inside the source tree of free software packages. There it can overtake various (usually non-portable) tasks related to the building and installation of an free software package. Changes: Various bugfixes and optimizations plus a few minor new features.
About: Aps is a small tool for analyzing network traffic. It prints out a great deal of information about the relevant protocols including TCP, UDP, ARP, and ICMP. It allows you to filter IP addresses, hardware addresses, ports, and specific protocols. It comes with a little GTK-GUI displaying packet counters for each protocol. Changes: Now with a very small, and beta, GTK-GUI, aps now can colourise different protocols. Numerous bugfixes implemented.
About: jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor. Changes: The 2.4pre series has many new features, including a new syntax highlighting system where mode grammars are specified in XML, optional syntax token background highlighting, improved auto indent, incremental search, and easier autosave file recovery.
About: GObject Builder (GOB) is a simple preprocessor for easily creating GObjects (glib objects). It reads a class description file with inline C code and produces .c and .h object files for you. It allows you to easily use most of the features of the GObject system and avoids typos by reducing the amount of code needed. In general, the amount of code is about the same as for OO languages such as Java or C++, but you still have to only use C and you get all the power of the GObject system. Changes: Assorted bugfixes.
About: Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone machines over a network using Internet protocols, namely DHCP and tftp.
About: LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems and ADSL devices. Changes: Initial release. Based upon DialControl Server 2.7.0, it now supports TCP connections instead of only UDP. Some other minor features were added. New client for windows, specially designed for LineControl Server.
About: nmh (new MH) is a powerful electronic mail handling system. It was originally based on version 6.8.3 of the MH message system developed by the RAND Corporation and the University of California. It is intended to be a (mostly) compatible drop-in replacement for MH. nmh consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, receive, save, retrieve, and manipulate e-mail messages. Since nmh is a suite rather than a single monolithic program, you may freely intersperse nmh commands with other commands at your shell prompt, or write custom scripts which use these commands in flexible ways. Changes: A fix for a security hole made in the 1.0.3 release caused other problems that are now fixed. This release fixes a memory corruption bug when examining mmdf mailboxes, when handling single-character format strings, and in packf triggered by corrupted mail files. There are now three types of email address masquerading. This feature is meant to interoperate with the analogous one of MTAs like sendmail and qmail. New mhshow-suffix-* lines in mts.conf allow use of MIME part viewing programs that only work properly when the New --with-smtpservers and --enable-masquerade configure parameters. Several date problems (Y2K) have been fixed.
About: PIKT is cross-categorical, multi-purpose software for monitoring and configuring computer systems, administering networks, organizing system security, and much more. PIKT is intended primarily for system monitoring, and secondarily for configuration management, but its versatility and extensibility evoke many other wide-ranging uses. PIKT consists of a sophisticated, feature-rich file preprocessor; an innovative scripting language with unique labor-saving features; a flexible, centrally directed process scheduler; a customizing file installer; a collection of powerful command-line extensions; and other useful tools. Changes: The #indent-#unindent preprocessor directives, for automatic indentation of PIKT configurations, were added. Much of the script processing code is now in a more modular, readable, and maintainable fashion. The author redid the array implementation, eventually making possible AWK-style associative and multi-dimensional arrays. This reimplementation also removes the 65535-element upper limit for one-dimensional, numerically indexed arrays. An OVERVIEW file was added.
About: Kaweth is a driver for Kawasaki KL5KUSB101 based USB to Ethernet bridges. Changes: Several bugs were fixed, providing a mostly working driver. Packet loss problems have also disappeared.
About: LessTif is an implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. It aims to be source compatible with OSF/Motif. Most Motif apps should compile and run out of the box. Changes: This is a major release, with many bugfixes and a repackaging of the the binary distributions for Linux.
About: NetAMP is your personal MP3 server. It is a set of PHP3 scripts that connect to a MySQL database of all of your MP3s and provide an easy-to-use Web interface that allows users to browse, play, and download your songs. Changes: Initial release.
About: LaDa is a program to make it easier to play darts on a non-digital darts table. It simply does the counting for you. Changes: Three new gamemodes and gamemode rules, and a major code redesign that makes the work of potential developers a lot easier and made the code itself a lot cleaner.
About: GNU Parted is a package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which also serves as a sample implementation and script backend. Changes: A separately-available boot disk image, instructions for the SuSE/gettext problem, and compatibility fixes for Linux 2.0 and C++.
About: Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall. Changes: New functionality so a map can give an answer that includes the username to connect to the backend server with, Regex maps now support back-references, minor build clean-ups for FreeBSD 3.4 and Slackware, and more.
About: acmemail is a multiuser IMAP/POP3 to Web gateway (or webmail program). It reads mail from a mail server and displays it using HTML on a web server. It is written in Perl, has full support for MIME (and mod_perl), is quite pretty, and is GPL'd or distributed under the Perl Artistic License. Changes: Minor documentation changes.
About: Ggradebook is the fully-featured GNU gradebook, an application for tracking student grades for teachers. It uses GTK+ and can optionally be compiled to use GNOME. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: Qt is a comprehensive, object-oriented development framework that enables development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and server-side applications. When you implement a program with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11), Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows NT/9x/2000/XP by simply compiling the source code for the platform you want. Qt is the basis for the KDE desktop environment, and is also used in numerous commercial applications such as Google Earth, Skype for Linux, and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
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