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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 22:59:00

I was talking with someone recently about school, and books, and how expensive they are, and how states can't afford them, and how kids these days would rather watch YouTube. I was trying to remember the name of this place I came across. I finally dug it up. It's Khan Academy, and it's amazing the things you can learn from him. Apparently he's a pretty good teacher. So if you want to catch up in class, or remember stuff you forgot, check it out.


Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:57:00

If you're having trouble imagining anything after the sixth dimension, maybe this will help. If you can wrap your head around it, the book sounds like fun.


Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:55:00

Where you from? Well, ultimately, Africa, but then we all spread out from there. This is a good animation that shows where we went and when, after we left. It ties in with Joseph Campbell's "Masks of God" series and the separation of the "Southern Planters" from the "Northern Hunters". Maybe that happened because of a huge volcanic eruption.


2010-09-03T16:15:23Z
Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

Changes: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2010/Sep/04). Partclone was updated to 0.2.15. Live-boot was updated to 2.0.3-1.drbl1, and live-config was updated to 2.0.4-1.drbl1. New file system support, btrfs, was added. Note that btrfs is still beta, so this support is in testing. Russian language support was updated.

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Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Archiving, backup, Mirroring

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T16:28:11Z
Absolute Linux is a lightweight Slackware derivative that uses an Icewm, pcmanfm, ROX-Filer, ivman, and others to create a lightweight yet easy to use distribution. Installation is text-based but simplified, and all packages are installed at once. It can run on a Pentium II and above, including SMP systems. A minimum 128MB RAM is recommended. It features ease of browsing any connected device in pcmanfm and an auto-popup menu for inserted playable media. "Restricted" codecs are available to those eligible via a root-user installer. There is a large range of software available, including OpenOffice, Mplayer, GIMP, and K3B.

Changes: The main reason for this release is to avoid kernel security vulnerabilities. A few new applications, many library package updates, and a bit of interface tweaking. Starting to feel like a 13.1.x final.

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Release Tags: linux lightweight

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T17:56:58Z
The openscap project is a set of open source libraries that support the SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) set of standards from NIST. It supports CPE, CCE, CVE, CVSS, OVAL, and XCCDF.

Changes: XSL transformations for generating report and guidance from XCCDF. SQL and xinetd OVAL probes. Updated Python bindings. Fixes for building on Debian-based distributions. Memory usage optimizations and many bugfixes.

Tags: Software Development, Security, Interpreters

Licenses: LGPL

2010-09-03T23:41:35Z
Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains heavy optimizations targeted towards current CPU architectures.

Changes: Numerous bugfixes and improvements and a significantly better COLLADA importer.

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Tags: rendering, Computer Graphics, global illumination, Physics

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-04T04:03:23Z
Avoision is a very simple arcade-style game. There's no story, no fancy graphics, no campaigns--just frantic, high-speed gameplay. Gameplay consists of moving a green block around with the arrow keys. The goal is to capture the red block before the timer runs out to score points. You must avoid all the white blocks that appear as you progress through the game.

Changes: This release features all-new background music and numerous bugfixes.

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Tags: Arcade, Game, 2d, simple

Licenses: GPL, MIT/X

2010-09-04T01:50:49Z
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 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: Bugfixes for all areas and major updates to the IEP (Special Education admin areas) section. This is the result of a couple of weeks of testing by secretaries and teachers.

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Tags: education

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T12:35:11Z
GRhino is a GUI Othello/Reversi game for the GNOME environment. The goal is to have a game with a strong AI, targeted to experienced players.

Changes: This release fixes bugs for Edit board functionality. It fixes incorrect pass by AI. It fixes compiler warnings on newer versions of GCC.

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Tags: Games/Entertainment, Turn Based Strategy

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T22:24:07Z
Untangle is a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more.

Changes: Extensive bugfixes and performance enhancements.

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Tags: Monitoring, Networking, Firewalls, Operating Systems, Linux Distributions

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T21:35:36Z
mk-configure is a lightweight replacement for GNU autotools written in and for bmake (a portable version of NetBSD make). The main goal is to have only one top-level tool instead of aclocal+automake+autoconf+autoheader. Other goals are clean design, simplicity, and "no code generation".

Changes: Fixes for LPREFIX, YPREFIX, and YHEADER. The target "install" creates destination directories by default (calls the target "installdirs"). A new variable EXPORT_SYMBOLS for exporting (in shared object library) only specified symbols. New variables NOSUBDIR, EXPORT_VARNAMES, and NOEXPORT_VARNAMES in mkc.{subdir,subprj}.mk. By default, _mkc_* cache files are created in the project's top directory. Documentation updates. More regression tests and samples. Better support for Solaris and OSF1. Other improvements.

Tags: autotools, NetBSD make, bmake, build automation, cross-platform development, NetBSD, BSD

Licenses: BSD Revised

2010-09-03T19:47:26Z
quIRC is a lightweight console-mode IRC client. It makes heavy use of terminal escape sequences to provide backscroll, tabs (for multiple channels and servers), and color.

Changes: This release fixes case mapping and recognizes the CASEMAPPING parameter of the 005 RPL_ISUPPORT numeric. It also fixes display in narrow terminals, down to a minimum of 30 columns. The top status bar is now 'smarter' and displays as much information as it has room for.

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Release Tags: Minor, bugfix, Display

Tags: IRC, Client, terminal, Console

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T21:27:17Z
quIRC is a lightweight console-mode IRC client. It makes heavy use of terminal escape sequences to provide backscroll, tabs (for multiple channels and servers), and color.

Changes: The configuration file (.quirc) can now contain multiple servers and associated channels to auto-join on startup. Global and server-level /ignore can also be automated in this manner. New commands /left and /right were added to reposition entries on the tab strip.

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Release Tags: Major, features

Tags: IRC, Client, terminal, Console

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T19:15:21Z
streamtuner2 is an Internet radio browser. It lists directory services like shoutcast and icecast/xiph.org in a GTK+ window. It mimics the older streamtuner, but is an independent rewrite and aims for more features.

Changes: This release brings minor bugfixes. The pyQuery parsing mode of Shoutcast has been adapted to its latest changes. The double escaping for %pls audio player parameters has been corrected. Interpolating of meta %fields is now possible for use with external recording wrapper scripts. A new plugin for MP3 file browsing is now available, though tag editing is unfinished and it's a separate download.

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Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

2010-09-03T19:04:05Z
pyAggr3g470r is a multi-threaded news aggregator with a Web interface. Articles are stored in an SQLite database.

Changes: It is now possible to browse articles by year and month with tag clouds (see new screenshots). In addition, URL errors are detected before downloading feeds. There are some improvements in the user interface.

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Release Tags: Major, history, search

Tags: RSS, Python, feedreader, aggregator, aggregate

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T18:57:59Z
etm is an acronym for Event and Task Manager. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store data, a command line interface for viewing stored information in a variety of convenient ways, and a cross-platform, wx(Python)-based GUI for creating and modifying items as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by date, context, keyword, or project and can be filtered in various ways. A display of busy and free times is also supported, as is a ledger view of time spent that is suitable for client billing. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.

Changes: This release adds 'data view' which displays all data items, regardless of date, sorted by type (action, event, note, task, reminder) and then by context, keyword, and description with options to filter in various ways. It improves the widget layout and changes the style of the 'today' button. It increases the width of the date column to prevent truncation. It allows individual settings for whether or not to rotate actions, events, notes, tasks, and reminders. It changes the GUI binding for search to ^F and for delete to either Delete or Backspace.

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Release Tags: new features, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Office/Business, Scheduling, Information Management, reminder

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T18:39:37Z
Pipho is a Web-based image gallery that is optimized for the iPhone and iPad. It is based on the original iPhone Photos application. The presentation layer is the Jaipho JavaScript gallery. It will read images from the desired folder, create resized thumbnails and slide images, and also will dump JavaScript read images part. In addition, it will read text files as descriptions for both gallery and slides. It has a mechanism for iPhone and iPad detection.

Changes: iPad support in Pipho_DeviceInfo by giving the right screen size for iPad and through isIpad() method. Distributed with list.php, which displays all image galleries list. A bugfix in Pipho_FileManager::_createImage() that enables pipho to work with PHP 5.2 and lower. Deployed with Jaipho 0.54.

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Release Tags: iPad

Tags: iPhone, gallery, Image, iPad

Licenses: LGPL, BSD Revised

2010-09-03T12:28:45Z
BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server load-balancing.

Changes: The "nat" module has been implemented, allowing IPv4-IPv4 and IPv6-IPv6 network address translations. The module handles UDP, TCP, and ICMP ECHO/REPLY (ping) traffic for both IPv4 and IPv6 and synchronizes the NAT states from the master to the backup accordingly. The manual has been updated accordingly.

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Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Internet, Proxy Servers, Clustering/Distributed Networks, Web, Networking, Load-Balancing, Software Distribution, Load-Balancer, TCP/IP

Licenses: Proprietary with Free Trial

2010-09-03T17:11:02Z
Talend Open Profiler (TOP) helps you to profile your data. TOP's ergonomic interface allows you to define metrics (indicators) and collect statistics on your data in a few clicks. It comes with a set of regular expressions that helps you to identify bad data. You can create your own regular expressions and use them in data profiling analyses. A lot of options exist for each indicator, which change the behavior of the indicator so that it gives you more pertinent information. Data quality options on indicators alert you when your data quality is not what you expected.

Changes: 11 bugs have been fixed.

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Release Tags: Bugfixes

Tags: Information Management, Metadata/Semantic Models, Database, Front-Ends, Software Development, Quality Assurance, Records Management

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-03T17:09:36Z
Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool. Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with components written by users.

Changes: 35 bugs have been fixed.

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Release Tags: Bugfixes

Tags: Software Development, Code Generators, Database, Front-Ends

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T16:34:03Z
Octopussy is a solution to manage your logs (also frequently called a SIM/SEM/SIEM Solution). Basically, it stores your logs, produces reports, and raises alerts.

Changes: User management has been improved. The test suite has huge updates. Many bugs have been fixed. Installation on Linux systems other than Debian has been improved.

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Release Tags: Bugfixes

Tags: Monitoring, Internet, Log Analysis, Logging

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T12:26:16Z
Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, and servers. It has proactive security features like PaX and SSP, which prevent security holes in the software from being exploited. It is based on uClibc and Busybox.

Changes: This is a bugfix release. It includes fixes for booting on Soekris 4801 boards, a libc fix for getprotobyname(3), kernel security fixes (even if those were not really exploitable due to PaX), and a fix for booting the alpine-vserver ISO.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor, Bugfixes

Tags: Linux Distributions, Operating System

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-03T15:20:54Z
BSW IRC Proxy translates the chat aspect of the proprietary binary protocol used in the Java client for the online gaming portal BrettSpielWelt.de to the standardized features of IRC (RFC 1459, 2810, 2811, particularly 2812, and 2813). It keeps a persistent connection to the client, server, and IRC client, in case one of them should vanish.

Changes: This release compiles on x86/glibc 2.7 (Debian lenny GNU/Linux). It fixes a toupper loop that caused a segfault. -L can be used to specify the address to listen on instead of the default 0.0.0.0.

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Tags: Communications, Chat, IRC, Internet, Proxy Servers

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T15:24:54Z
The LibPKI Project is aimed to provide an easy-to-use PKI library for PKI-enabled application development. The library provides the developer with all the needed functionality to manage certificates, from generation to validation. It helps developers integrate X509 digital certificates into their applications, and implement complex cryptographic operations with a few simple function calls using a high-level cryptographic API. The library constitutes the core of other OpenCA Labs Projects like the PRQP Server, the OCSP Responder, and the OpenCA-NG PKI.

Changes: This release adds support for different operating systems (initial support for Win port), PKI_SSL and support for easy SSL/TLS management, support for the Win LDAP API, support for 64-bit architectures, safe URL encoding for the HTTP GET protocol, and platform-independent thread management together with thread synchronization primitives (mutexes, condition variables, and r/w locks). There are LDAP interface fixes.

Release Tags: major release

Tags: Cryptography, Security, PKI

Licenses: BSD Revised

2010-09-03T12:15:02Z
S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online. It supports Amazon S3 as well as arbitrary SFTP servers and effectively provides you with a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with Internet access. S3QL provides a standard, full featured Unix file system that is conceptually indistinguishable from any local file system. Furthermore, S3QL has additional features like compression, encryption, data de-duplication, immutable trees, and snapshotting, which make it especially suitable for online backup and archiving. S3QL is designed to favor simplicity and elegance over performance and feature-creep. Care has been taken to make the source code as readable and serviceable as possible. Solid error detection and error handling have been included from the very first line, and S3QL comes with extensive automated test cases for all its components.

Changes: This release fixes a problem with the setup script not copying all the required files ("global_lock.py" was omitted). Otherwise it is identical to release 0.22.

Release Tags: Beta

Tags: FUSE, Compression, File system, backup, storage, encrypted backup, encryption, de-duplication

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T15:02:03Z
Zaz is an arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order. Currently it includes 20 different levels and two modes of gameplay. The engine allows for easy custom level creation with unlimited number of paths, different speeds, ball-sizes, and rules. A 3D accelerator is needed for decent gameplay.

Changes: This release adds a splash screen and a --disable-splash configure option. The music volume option is honored in the main menu. A disable speed-up option has been added. Saving of profile after changes in options has been fixed. Mouse glitches have been fixed. There are 23 levels in total. Detection of the default language in Win32 has been fixed.

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Tags: Games/Entertainment, Puzzle Games

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T14:57:37Z
lftp is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program. Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. Additional protocols supported: FTP over HTTP proxy, HTTPS and FTP over SSL, BitTorrent protocol. There are lots of tunable parameters, including rate limitation, number of connections limitation and more.

Changes: Changes since 4.0.5 mostly include minor bugfixes. 4.0.6 had a security fix (for CVE-2010-2251, aka oCERT's "#2010-001 multiple HTTP client unexpected download filename").

Tags: Internet, FTP, http client, SFTP, Mirroring, Bittorrent, IPv6

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T15:02:08Z
AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP is a Webmail script with a modern AJAX interface. It supports POP3/IMAP accounts, SMTP, and SSL (including Gmail). Users can check and send mail and use an address book. Skins, a 3-pane view, non-English languages (including right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew), UTF-8 and other charsets, IMAP folders, and view and compose HTML mail. MS SQL/MySQL backends are supported, as well as multiple mail accounts and domains, Web-based administration and installation, and cPanel integration.

Changes: This release has been rewritten from the ground up. It has a new user interface, improved performance, mail folders, IMAP support, an address book (contacts and groups), a rich text editor with spell check, personal user settings, the ability to store mail in a database, mail filters and search, an installation wizard, and cPanel integration.

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Release Tags: Improved performance, Personal user settings, cPanel integration

Tags: Communications, Email, Email Clients (MUA), Internet, Web, Dynamic Content

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T11:06:43Z
VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical engineering. In addition to standard tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting, the CAD system provides tools for sheet metal unbending and crash tests, libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN) and symbols, mechanical part calculations, and tools for working with bills of materials (BOMs) and title blocks. VariCAD supports STEP, STL, IGES, DWG, and DXF file formats.

Changes: This release brings substantial improvements in STEP file import and includes a number of minor improvements.

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Tags: Communications, Email, multimedia, Graphics, 3D Modeling

2010-09-03T10:47:46Z
The Web Fingerprint Class creates as unique a fingerprint as possible for a Web browser. A HMAC digest function is also added for use with Web security products.

Changes: Minor code change and cleanup.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T13:47:32Z
stnn is a neural network system that includes a back propagation network, which can learn input target patterns. It can be trained to match patterns such as letters and fingerprints.

Changes: This release has been made for Squeak version 4.1.

Tags: Artificial Neural Networks

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T10:43:09Z
Vault is a PHP class for implementing security and encryption. It was designed and built for use in the Vault product range (Message Vault and Password Vault), but has been released in its own right for others to benefit from. It uses a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption including SSL (2048), SHA256, SHA512, and ASE256. It also features randomly generated salts and key verification.

Changes: Minor code changes and cleanup.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T13:07:33Z
GoAccess is a real-time Web log analyzer and interactive viewer for the Apache Web server. It runs in a terminal and provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require log monitoring and visual reports on the fly. GoAccess can monitor unique visitors, browsers, spiders, OS, hosts and IP geolocation, keyphrases, referring sites, status codes, etc. It parses both Apache log formats, the Common Log Format and the Combined Log Format.

Changes: Due to the difference of gamma correction on some monitors, a color scheme implementation was added.

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Tags: analyzer, Statistics, Log Analysis, http, Apache, Systems Administration

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-03T12:57:37Z
The drkhtb project was designed with medium to major Internet Service Providers in mind. Featuring extended hashing support, error handling, and simple configuration options, it has proven to be a stable solution for shaping up to 15000 residential clients with both upload and download rules, it is considered stable and is already in use as a production platform in at least one major ISP running 4 shaping bridges, each handling up to 2 Gbit/s, with a total of 48000 active clients and over 60000 filter rules in each direction. At this point there is no reason to believe that further bandwidth cannot be handled by one bridge, but there have not been sufficient resources to extensively test it. It is believed that up to 4 Gbit/s can be shaped on one individual machine serving at least 20000 clients.

Changes: This release fixes a syntax error that prevented the generator from working with some versions of tc.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Network Monitoring, Communications, Systems Administration, traffic shaping

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T10:56:33Z
The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.

Changes: Various code cleanups and bugfixes have been committed. gtkshell can now make use of the current icon theme for specified icon lookup. gshterm, based on VTE, is now a tabbed terminal. A toolbar providing mnemonics for tab operations has been added to the terminal widget. Command line usage is now generated automatically on invalid options. A new deskbar utility was added to ACE. ACE now looks up a system default value for a configuration key when a key has been marked as undefined before attempting to prompt the user.

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Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Desktop Environment, tools, Software Development, User Interfaces, GTK+ 2.x, GTK 2.0, gtk+2.0, GTK2, X, X11, GUI, scripting, scripting enhancements, Scripts

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T10:17:09Z
The MySQLi PHP class is a class that extends MySQLi. It has built in error handling and simplifies the use of MySQLi. The use of place holders within the PHP/SQL means that SQL injection is now a thing of the past.

Changes: Minor code changes and clean up were done.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T09:46:59Z
The IP PHP Class provides a comprehensive set of functions for handling and manipulating IP addresses (IPv4 only). It includes creation, validation, block information, and checking of IP addresses within CIDR blocks.

Changes: This is a minor code update and clean up.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T09:47:59Z
Mcrypt is a simple PHP class that provides functions for handling mcrypt encryption and decryption.

Changes: This is a minor code update and clean up.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T08:29:06Z
Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that runs winelib applications. It also supports installation of third party utilities, installation of applications and games, and the ability to use custom configurations.

Changes: This version bundles Wine 1.2, has many fixes for Steam, and adds support for IrfanView 4.27, VLC 1.1.0, Google SketchUp 7.1, and FireFox 3.6.8 with multimedia plug ins. IrfanView plugins are also installed. Internet Explorer 7 support was improved. Issues in the Bordeaux UI and Cellar Manager were fixed. The latest DIB Engine patch was applied and the latest Winetricks release is used.

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Release Tags: Mac OS X, Major feature enhancements, Major bugfixes

Tags: Desktop Environment, GNOME, Utilities, Emulators, GUI, Office/Business, Games/Entertainment, multimedia

Licenses: Other

2010-09-03T08:27:42Z
PAC provides a GUI to configure SSH and Telnet connections, including usernames, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, and macros. It is similar in function to SecureCRT or Putty. It is intended for people who connect to many servers through SSH. It can automate logins and command executions.

Changes: All "Hidden" (and "Password") fields are now encrypted with Crypt::CBC and Crypt::Blowfish in the configuration file. An entry was added to the tray menu to start a "Local Shell". A minor bug regarding the "Cluster" window was fixed.

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Release Tags: bug fix and enhancement, GUI improvement

Tags: Perl, GTK+, SSH, Telnet, GNOME, Ubuntu, Expect

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-03T08:22:13Z
TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.

Changes: This version includes an updated version of the TCPDF library.

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Tags: education, Testing, Computer-Based Assessment, e-exam

Licenses: AGPL v3

2010-09-03T08:12:59Z
BitNami Alfresco Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the KnowledgeTree ECM software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache Tomcat, Java, MySQL, ImageMagick, and OpenOffice (optional), so users can get an Alfresco installation up and running in minutes after answering a few questions. Linux and Windows are currently supported.

Changes: Installation on Windows was fixed.

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Release Tags: Minor Release

Licenses: Apache 2.0

2010-09-03T05:44:56Z
poker-eval is a C library to evaluate poker hands. The result of the evaluation for a given hand is a number. The general idea is that if the evalution of your hand is lower than the evaluation of the hand of your opponent, you lose. Many poker variants are supported (Draw, Holdem, Omaha, etc.) and more can be added. It is designed for speed so that it can be used within poker simulation software using either exhaustive exploration or Monte Carlo.

Changes: Minor bug fixes and packaging adjustments were made.

Tags: Games/Entertainment

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T03:25:37Z
Owl (Openwall GNU/*/Linux) is a small security-enhanced Linux distribution for servers. Owl also makes a good base system for customized virtual machine images and embedded systems, and Owl live CDs with remote SSH access are good for recovering or installing systems (whether with Owl or not). A single Owl CD includes the full live system, installable packages, the installer program, as well as full source code and the build environment capable of rebuilding the entire system from source. Owl supports multiple architectures (x86, x86-64, SPARC, and Alpha) and offers some compatibility for packages developed for other Linux distributions. The primary approaches to security are proactive source code review, privilege reduction, privilege separation, careful selection of third-party software, safe defaults, and "hardening" to reduce the likelihood of successful exploitation of security flaws.

Changes: The kernel has been updated to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.028stab071.3) with minor additional changes. CD bootup and the installer have been improved. e2fsprogs, diffutils, bison, man-pages, man, diffstat, gawk, cdrkit, iptables, sed, grep, ltrace, hdparm, mktemp, vsftpd, acct, file, and m4 have been updated to new upstream versions. Assorted minor improvements have been made and bugfixes were applied to several other packages. New ISO images and OpenVZ container templates have been generated for i686 and x86-64.

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Release Tags: Development

Tags: Operating Systems, Software Distribution, Security, Systems Administration, Cryptography

Licenses: OSI Approved

2010-09-03T02:48:25Z
Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web applications.

Changes: The updater was extended to handle update methods from extensions. Error handling was optimized for initializing IMAP connections. Fixes were applied to Unicode names in the WebDAV server and uninstalling extensions.

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Tags: Communications, Information Management, Office/Business, groupware, Content Management, Knowledge Management, helpdesk, CRM, Collaboration, Document Management, project management, Web Application development, synchronization, contacts, tasks, Email, RSS, LDAP, WebDAV

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T23:59:21Z
FBReaderJ is an e-book reader for the Android platform. It is a clone of the FBReader book reader written in Java by the same authors. FBReaderJ supports several e-book formats: oeb, epub, and fb2. Direct reading from zip, tar, and gzip archives is supported.

Changes: The user can navigate along text using a slider. To launch the navigation dialog, the user can touch the screen for a long time. User-defined OPDS catalogs are now available by pressing the "Add new catalog" item in the Network Library. A scrollbar is shown on Android 2.2 devices. Installation to SD card is now possible. Hungarian, Italian, and Vietnamese interface translations have been added. Hyphenation for words containing the "-" symbol has been fixed. An option for inverting the actions of volume keys has been added. A problem with Eken tablet devices has been fixed: the status bar is always visible on these tablets now.

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Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Text Processing

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-03T00:52:54Z
GLFW is a portable framework for OpenGL application development. It handles operating system specific tasks such OpenGL window management, resolution switching, keyboard, mouse, and joystick input, timer input, creating threads, and more.

Changes: Many bugs have been fixed. Explicit support for OpenGL 3.2+ context creation has been added. Proper EWMH and ICCCM compliance has been implemented. A 64-bit capable Cocoa port has been added. The LaTeX documentation has been expanded. The Carbon port has been deprecated. The Pascal and D bindings have been updated. More keys are supported, a number of test programs have been added. The X11 build system has been improved. The deprecated DOS and AmigaOS ports have been removed. Several unmaintained language bindings have been removed.

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Release Tags: Stable

Tags: Graphics, 3D Rendering, Software Development, Libraries, OpenGL

Licenses: zlib/libpng

2010-09-02T20:22:18Z
PeerSec MatrixSSL is an embedded SSL and TLS implementation designed for small footprint devices and applications requiring low overhead per connection. The library is less than 50K on disk with cipher suites. It includes SSL and TLS client and server support, session resumption, and implementations of RSA, AES, 3DES, ARC4, SHA1, and MD5. The source is well documented and contains portability layers for additional operating systems, cipher suites, and cryptography providers.

Changes: A server-side configuration option was added to decrease binary executable size with simpler X.509 parsing. The Yarrow PRNG algorithm is included for strong entropy processing. Non-ASCII X.509 attributes are supported in certificates. Project files for Windows were updated to VS Express 2010. The return code was clarified for the matrixSslReceivedData() API.

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Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements, SSL, TLS

Tags: Communications, Internet, Web, HTTP Servers, Security, Cryptography, Software Development, Embedded Systems, Libraries, Networking, SSL, TLS

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T19:40:21Z
uxdstools is a set of Unix directory service tools. It is a suite of command tools to administer POSIX user and group accounts in an LDAP directory. It is similar in spirit to the useradd/mod/del tools found on Linux and Solaris, the pw tools on BSD, the mk|ch|rmuser/group tools on AIX, etc. However, instead of manipulating local accounts, uxdstools manages POSIX-type accounts that can be found in LDAP directory services installations, namely those with posixAccount and posixGroup attributes.

Changes: OpenAFS integration was added in the sense that it is possible to add users simultaneously into an OpenAFS pts database, but this requires the necessary AFS/Kerberos 5 infrastructure. All deprecated OpenLDAP API functions were changed to their non-deprecated counterparts (with the exception of ldap_sort_entries()). ltools.h was renamed to uxds.h and the file was split out into uxds_*.h files for more modularity.

Tags: Networking, LDAP, Heimdal

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T22:37:49Z
Paperless Office is a document management and electronic filing system. It is similar to Paperport, but adds many new features, such as automatic document classification, synchronization with your filing cabinet, date extraction, semantic Web integration, and sophisticated natural language processing, such as extracting todo lists from documents, spam detection, urgency classification, along with planning, scheduling, and execution features. You can set due dates and interdependencies for documents and tasks, so it has workflow support.

Changes: This is the initial alpha release. The entire FRDCSA system must be released before this software can be usable.

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Release Tags: Alpha

Tags: frdcsa, Document Management, scanning, OCR, semantic web

Licenses: Proprietary

2010-09-02T19:01:27Z
IMonAir is an instant messaging desktop application with a nice GUI, video chat, and P2P file transfer features. IMonAir relies on the Treegger.com infrastructure to provide Twitter or Foursquare authentication and a contact list based on social network friend relationships.

Changes: A minor bug was fixed. Vcard management was improved. A file P2P bug was fixed. A case in which a username was ignored is now handled.

Release Tags: minor bugfix

Tags: Video, Twitter, Chat Client, P2P, instant messaging, file transfer

Licenses: BSD Revised

2010-09-02T18:15:53Z
JStock is a stock market software for 24 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, portfolio management, and market chit chat features. Free SMS/email alerts are supported.

Changes: A critical bug was fixed. Due to incorrect usage of DomDriver, the stock server connecting process was extremely slow. This bugfix will improve application start-up time dramatically. Incorrect email encoding for the Chinese language was fixed. The missing Labels_en.properties file was added. It is now possible to send SMS in Chinese by using a shorter message content. A possible NPE during unboxing is now avoided.

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Tags: Financial, Investment, Java

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T18:58:22Z
amforth is an interactive and extendible command interpreter for the Atmel AVR ATmega microcontroller family. It has a turnkey feature for embedded use as well. It does not depend on a host application. The command language is an almost compatible ANS94 forth with extensions. It needs less than 8KB code memory for the base system. It is written in assembly language and forth itself.

Changes: This release adds the necessary files to work with most of the current atmega controller types. It fixes a few bugs and adds some words to the kernel as well.

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Release Tags: Major bug fixes and feature enhancements, Stable

Tags: Operating System Kernels, Operating Systems, Hardware, Scientific/Engineering, Software Development, Embedded Systems

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T20:31:45Z
Kiwix is an offline reader for Web contents based on the ZIM file format. It uses the Mozilla framework and integrates a full-text search engine. For example, this software allows you to read Wikipedia offline.

Changes: This release fixes a few bugs and introduces a few small features. The main user-visible improvement is the introduction of tabs navigation.

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Tags: Wikipedia offline reader ZIM

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T20:50:14Z
Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

Changes: This is a bugfix release.

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Release Tags: Bugfixes

Tags: Office/Business

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-02T21:10:01Z
Multi-OTP is a PHP class that can be used to authenticate and manage OTP user tokens for strong two-factor authentication. It can create, update, and delete tokens to authenticate users with one time passwords (OTP). The users' data are stored in files. The class can also check the user token using several algorithms: Mobile OTP (MOTP), OATH/HOTP (RFC 4226), and OATH/TOTP HOTP Time Based (RFC 4226 extension). It works with compatible software tokens (iPhone, Android, PalmOS, Nokia, and other Java J2ME capable phones) and hardware tokens (such as Feitian, ZyXEL, Authenex, or Seamoon). The multiotp command line utility is also provided, both in "compiled" form (for Windows) and in source code (for Linux or educational purpose). The multiotp command line can be combined with FreeRADIUS (under Linux) or the free TekRADIUS LT (under Windows) in order to have a powerful radius strong authentication server.

Changes: Now it is possible to import PSKC Algorithm Profiles containing tokens definition for TOTP and HOTP algorithm. Thus, creating a user and attributing a token is easier. The multiotp-database-format flat file has been enhanced to version 3. Regular attributes are written attribute=value, and encrypted attributes are now written encrypted_attribute:=encrypted_value. In debug mode, the command line version now returns text information after the exit code.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: Security, OTP, Authentication, php class, two-factor authentication, Internet

Licenses: LGPL

2010-09-02T18:00:30Z
Digtwit is a very simple tool that checks for a hashtag (e.g. #digmia) in a user's friends feed on Twitter and retweets any messages mentioning that hashtag automatically. By following a user, you allow a user to be included in automatic retweets.

Changes: This release adds oauth support due to a new Twitter policy (oauth is required for all applications now). It upgrades the underlying libraries.

Tags: Twitter

Licenses: Public Domain

2010-09-02T16:55:11Z
Astaro Command Center (ACC) is an application for centralized management of Astaros gateway products. With ACC, network administrators can easily manage and control multiple Astaro devices. The two separated Web-Based GUIs (WebAdmin and Gateway Manager) enable the split of ACC-system administration and role-based Gateway monitoring and can be also implemented in existing Active Directory or eDirectory environments. ACC provides an effective overview that details the actual health of each device, swiftly allowing administrators to see which gateways require more attention or immediate action (by reason of e.g. threat level, license, or CPU/memory/disk usage). A VPN configuration feature offers the ability to set up an IPSec tunnel between managed devices very easily from a central point. Over the one-click WebAdmin SSO to each connected gateway, it is possible to react instantly if necessary.

Changes: This Up2Date will address the Y2K38 UNIX time issue, which was previously solved and distributed for ASG.

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Tags: Internet, Security, Monitoring, Networking, Central Configuration

Licenses: Free use

2010-09-02T20:34:14Z
The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly scalable, secure two-factor authentication system. It is simple to implement and maintain, allows users to be validated automatically, requires no hardware tokens, has a simple API for application support (via Ruby, PHP, Java, COM, Python, etc.), supports multiple domains, and supports replication for fault tolerance and scalability. It also supports mutual /host and transaction authentication, wireless tokens only domains, locked tokens (to your PC), anti-keystroke logger keypad PIN entry, etc.

Changes: This release updates Tomcat to 5.5.30.

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Release Tags: two-factor authentication, Information Security

Tags: Security, Cryptography, Networking, two-factor authentication

Licenses: GPL, Other

2010-09-02T16:20:29Z
SmartGit is a GUI client for the Git distributed version control system (DVCS).

Changes: This release contains only bugfixes. Updating is recommended.

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Tags: Software Development, Version Control, git client

Licenses: Proprietary

2010-09-02T16:20:01Z
VIPS is an image processing suite designed for extremely large images and colorimetry. It consists of a powerful re-usable library and a graphical user interface.

Changes: Major improvements in this release are a new threading system improving SMP scaling further, a faster and prettier image repaint system, more progress with the core library rewrite, a new command line program for generating image thumbnails, support for PFM files, lower VM use, and new build systems for making Windows and Mac binaries. There are also the usual set of small speedups, portability improvements, and bugfixes.

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Release Tags: Major, Stable

Tags: multimedia, Graphics, Editors, Software Development, Libraries

Licenses: LGPL, GPL

2010-09-02T16:02:41Z
quIRC is a lightweight console-mode IRC client. It makes heavy use of terminal escape sequences to provide backscroll, tabs (for multiple channels and servers), and color.

Changes: This version adds the /amsg command (send a message to all connected channels), and adds a status bar at the top of the terminal. Tab completion has been improved, as has the line-breaking algorithm (thus fixing the corruption of ASCII art due to strings of spaces being folded).

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Release Tags: Minor, features, Display

Tags: IRC, Client, terminal, Console

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-02T15:59:48Z
Zoom is a low-overhead graphical and command line profiler for Linux. Profiles are system-wide, precise down to the instruction level, and capture complete backtraces of C/C++/ObjC/Fortran/Assembly code. This lets you see exactly where time was spent, what code was running (user or kernel), and how that code was called. Drill down into a specific symbol, and Zoom shows source and assembly annotated with general and processor-specific tuning advice. It saves profiles as a single, self-contained session file that can be emailed or attached to bug reports. This lets you share what you find with colleagues or archive it for later review. Zoom also supports remote network profiling and scripting, making it ideal for embedded or server systems and automated workflows.

Changes: This release improves compatibility with RHEL4 and adds support for newer Intel processors. Also fixed are missing event configs in the user interface and a change to make the bug reporting dialog non-modal.

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Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

Tags: Software Development, Monitoring, Diagnostics, Benchmark, Quality Assurance

Licenses: Commercial

2010-09-02T15:49:50Z
Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.

Changes: An SSH module was added. Several TCP evasions were fixed. Language compatibility was improved. HTTP detection accuracy was improved. Inline mode was improved.

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Release Tags: Major bugfixes

Tags: IDS, IPS, Network Analysis, Security, snort, IPv4, IPv6

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T18:32:07Z
Tunnel Manager is a program that manages regularly used SSH tunnels. It supports both SSHv1 and SSHv2 tunnels and can be configured to manage the keys in your ssh-agent.

Changes: This release allows names for port-forwards, saves keys by filename, and exits the tunnel if any port-forward fails. It adds some partial message catalogs.

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Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements

Tags: Networking, Internet

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T14:36:45Z
python-pipeline lets you create pipelines of iterators.

Changes: Python 3 is now supported.

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, Python Modules

Licenses: GPL, GPLv2

2010-09-02T14:13:48Z
DataSync Suite is an integration platform that provides single sign-on, data synchronization, and email archiving for applications like SugarCRM, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and Drupal.

Changes: This release contains a series of bug fixes and now installs a start-up script.

Release Tags: Minor, Stable

Tags: Office/Business, CRM, Email, Systems Administration, CMS, Information Management

Licenses: AGPLv3

2010-09-02T14:11:27Z
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries, rescue shelters, and veterinary surgery clinics. It features complete animal and owner management, document generation, flexible reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.

Changes: This release adds Portugese and Polish translations, support for bonded pairs, litter logging improvements, better report scaling, overhaul of email screens and lost and found functionality, custom mail merging, and many bugfixes.

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Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Information Management, Other/Nonlisted Topic, Office/Business, Database, Records Management

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T14:16:10Z
mod_musicindex is an Apache module aimed at being a C alternative to the Perl module Apache::MP3. It allows nice displaying of directories containing MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or MP4/AAC files, including sorting them on various fields, streaming/downloading them, constructing playlists, and searching. It also provides features such as RSS and Podcast feeds, multiple CSS support, and archive downloads.

Changes: This release fixes a single bug, by which playlists might be downloaded with random filenames.

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Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

Tags: Information Management, Metadata/Semantic Models, Communications, File Sharing, Internet, Web, Indexing/Search, multimedia, Sound/Audio

Licenses: LGPL

2010-09-02T13:44:01Z
Flash Decompiler Trillix is a decompiler for SWF files. It allows you to extract objects from a Flash movie, save sounds as WAV and MP3, images as PNG, JPEG, and BMP, videos as FLV (Flash video format), AVI, or MPEG, and text as RTF, TXT, and HTML. It can also export ActionScripts.

Changes: A warning message is given if a SWF file doesn't satisfy the Adobe SWF File Format Specification. A mechanism was added for fixing some SWF files that do not satisfy the Adobe SWF File Format Specification. A Spanish localization was added. Support for Flex locales was added. Flex files can be now converted to their source format in demo. The Pi-code preview for AS 3.0 was added. Support was added for Adobe Flash CS4 (v10) "vector" generics. The "Recover arguments' names" option functionality was improved (but doesn't apply to AS 3.0 now).

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Tags: multimedia

2010-09-02T13:49:33Z
GNU m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. Autoconf needs GNU m4 for generating `configure' scripts, but not for running them.

Changes: A longstanding bug where the "format" builtin could crash on an invalid format string was fixed. Compilation against newer glibc and on AIX 7.1BETA was fixed. A number of portability improvements were inherited from gnulib.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Text Processing, Filters

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T13:32:10Z
Stantor-Domodulor is a home automation software system. It lets you manage electric and electronic facilities through Web pages and WAP 2 and 1 for smartphones. Stantor can drive Velleman k8000/k8055/k8061 boards, Ethernet and USB Arduino duemilanove boards, X10 materials, USB webcams, and sound boards. Stantor correspondents can sent alerts via email and instant messaging. The Linux distributions supported are Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva.

Changes: 1-Wire sensors network was implemented through OWFS software. Various maintenance was done.

Release Tags: 1-Wire, OWFS

Tags: Home Automation, scada, webcam, X10

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T12:59:48Z
Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Franc??s' Oric emulator, to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the Telestrat.

Changes: The quality of the audio output was improved. The arrow keys and the file selector were fixed. Color schemes were added to distinguish ink from paper. There are no longer stuck keys on the Oric after leaving the Xeuphoric window with [alt]-[tab].

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Tags: Emulators

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T12:25:22Z
openpom is a Web-based user interface for Nagios. It allows you to view almost everything about Nagios in a single page: alert, ack, downtime, comment. You can also interact with Nagios through ack, downtime, comment, disable, and reset buttons.

Changes: Disable alerts are displayed like down and ack alerts. Bugs on filtering were fixed.

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Tags: Nagios, Monitoring, ndoutils

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T12:19:07Z
DynamicReports is a Java library for reporting based on JasperReports. It lets you create sophisticated reports quickly without needing to use a visual designer. The main benefit of DynamicReports is dynamic report design.

Changes: Support was added for detecting data type. Support was added for virtualizer. The SummaryWithPageHeaderAndFooter attribute was added to allow you to print page header and footer on a summary page. Minor bug fixes were made.

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Tags: Reporting, printing, Presentation, Dynamic Content

Licenses: LGPLv3

2010-09-02T11:42:50Z
newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It has all the magic of traditional Lisp, but is easier to learn and use. newLISP is friendly, fast, and small. Most of the functions you will ever need are already built in.

Changes: This development version fixes bugs.

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Release Tags: Development

Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-02T11:06:40Z
QtiPlot is a clone of Origin for data analysis and scientific plotting.

Changes: A bug affecting changing of the scale type in 2D plots was fixed. Selection of multiple columns in tables using the "Shift" key was fixed. Restoring texts from OriginLab projects was improved. Now it is possible to reset the default options via the "Preferences..." dialog. By default, QtiPlot now opens the last used project. The confirmation dialog for updates searching can now be disabled. The user manual was improved.

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Release Tags: Bug fixes and enhancements

Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Mathematics, Visualization

2010-09-02T11:56:52Z
repos-tools is a couple of command-line utilities to make work on your code repositories faster and easier. The first is "repost", which lets you push, pull, build, and do other things on a collection of repositories all at once. The second is "github", a command line client to github.com's features such as issues, following, and watching.

Changes: Two commands were added to github to display the activity feeds (like the dashboard you see when you login on github.com). The "followers" github command was extended. The usage message and readme file were improved.

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Tags: Utilities, Version Control, Development, tools

Licenses: LGPLv3

2010-09-02T09:32:20Z
svnauthcheck checks the syntax of a subversion authorization file and generates Apache-like permission specifications to be used by other tools such as ViewVC. svnauthcheck, in combination with subversion pre- and post-commit hooks, can be used to delegate the administration of a repository authorization to the end users.

Changes: A problem in the check for ending slashes in paths was fixed. The application now checks if the specified file is a regular file.

Release Tags: bug fix release

Tags: Systems Administration, Software Development, Version Control, Subversion

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-02T09:17:51Z
pyAggr3g470r is a multi-threaded news aggregator with a Web interface. Articles are stored in an SQLite database.

Changes: The feedgetter module was improved. More details about articles are stored in the database when possile. An attempt is made to get the whole article (a_feed['entries'][i].content[j].value), and in the event of failure, the description/summary is used (a_feed['entries'][i].description).

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Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements

Tags: RSS, Python, feedreader, aggregator, aggregate

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-02T09:13:09Z
FastFlow is a multi-core programming framework that implements lock-free MPMC FIFO queues specifically designed to support the development of high-level programming frameworks on cache-coherent multi-core. It is faster than TBB, OpenMP, and Cilk. It is specifically targeted to support the development of efficient streaming applications on cache-coherent multi-core platforms. It is realized as a C++ template library.

Changes: Unbounded SWSR queue was improved. A list-based dynamic queue was added. The directory structure was changed. cmake compilation support was added. Some bugs in ffStats and a memory leak were fixed. Multiple stream management was added. Compilation warnings were fixed. The accelerator was improved.

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Release Tags: Stable

Tags: multithreaded, multi-core, cache, C++, template metaprogramming, skeletons, mapreduce, thread, C, Patterns

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T07:58:49Z
Veusz is a scientific plotting package, designed to create publication-ready Postscript, PDF, or SVG output. It features an easy to use graphical interface as well as a command line interface and can be scripted or embedded in Python scripts. Graphs are constructed in a modular fashion from separate components. Datasets can be interactively modified or created from within the program.

Changes: A plugin interface was included for creating datasets from other datasets inside the program. It comes with a variety of useful operations (e.g. add datasets, compute means). Plugins include color randomization and widget cloning for datasets. A vector field widget was added. A new object interface allows the document's tree of widgets to be manipulated. It is now possible to specify ranges of data for fitting. There are several minor user interface improvements and bugfixes.

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Release Tags: Stable

Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Visualization

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-02T07:08:29Z
Fotoxx allows you to navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail gallery that lets you choose an image to view or edit. It includes editing functions for: brightness, contrast, color, brightness distribution, white balance, tone mapping, red-eyes, sharpen, blur, noise, trim, resize, rotate, warp, art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Editing is done using movable curves and sliders. Feedback is live, using the whole image. Unlimited undo and redo are supported. RAW files can be imported and edited with 16-bit color. You can edit the whole image or a selected area with adjustable blending. Tags, dates, and ratings can be added to images. You can then search using these criteria as well as file names. Fotoxx can also help you make slide shows, burn a CD/DVD, and view and edit metadata (EXIF etc.). Renaming, resizing, add tag editing can be done in batches.

Changes: This version added functions for combining multiple noisy photos to make a low-noise image, making a B/W or color negative, or a positive from a negative, and batch deleting or replacing user tags. The Brightness/Contrast curve edit can better preserve detail in areas brightened to saturation. The other Retouch curve edits are generally 30% faster. Search Tags can now be used to create a set of images to choose from for a following batch operation. HDR and HDF automatically trim edges where all input images do not overlap. Six other small improvements and four bugfixes were made.

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Tags: multimedia, Graphics, Viewers, Editors, Raster-Based

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-02T03:05:59Z
PDF to Spreadsheet Pro uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) and document analysis to convert PDF documents into editable spreadsheets. It supports all types of PDFs, including ones that have been scanned from a physical document.

Changes: This release added the ability to select a specific area on the page to base the detection of row and column dividers. This yields much greater flexibility in detecting the cells of a spreadsheet.

Tags: pdf to text, Spreadsheet, PDF, excel

Licenses: Commercial, Trialware

2010-09-02T01:03:37Z
DOLFIN is the C++ interface of the FEniCS project for the Automation of Computational Mathematical Modeling (ACMM), providing a consistent PSE (Problem Solving Environment) for solving ordinary and partial differential equations. Key features include a simple, consistent and intuitive object-oriented API; automatic and efficient evaluation of variational forms through FFC; automatic and efficient assembly of linear systems; and support for general families of finite elements.

Changes: The big change in this release is the move to a CMake build system. The new system provides improved cross-platform support and better dependency checking, and a GUI can be used to help in the configuration process. Other improvements include the option of re-using preconditioners, re-use of LU factorizations, and named mesh functions.

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Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Mathematics

2010-09-01T22:45:00Z
eLyXer (pronounced elixir) is a LyX to HTML converter. While there are a ton of such projects all over the Web, eLyXer has a clear focus on flexibility and elegant output. LyX is a wonderful text editor that produces beautiful PDF files. Internally, it exports documents to LaTeX, and from there to PDF. Sadly there is not an equivalent ???export to HTML??? option. With eLyXer, you can convert your master???s thesis, learned article, fascinating novel, or love letter to an HTML page that you can then publish on the Web. It is a standalone tool that does not depend on LyX.

Changes: Basic support for change tracking; better BibTeX parsing; and support for sizes in spaces, table columns, and boxes.

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Release Tags: Stable, feature complete

Tags: LyX, HTML, Filter, converter, LaTeX

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T22:59:33Z
cvechecker reports about possible vulnerabilities on your system by scanning the installed software and matching the results with the CVE database. This is not a bullet-proof method and you will most likely have many false positives, but it is still better than nothing, especially if you are running a distribution with little security coverage.

Changes: The tool should now build properly on NetBSD and FreeBSD (although more user experience here is still welcome). THis release introduces a cvereport command (example output can be found at the project site), and has lowered its initial dependency requirements. pullcves now only loads the CVE XML changes in the database, rather than iterating across all CVE XML entries.

Tags: Security

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T21:15:05Z
VDT (Visual Disk Test) performs various I/O tests on files and devices such as whole hard disks, partitions, and logical volumes. It provides visual feedback on screen while offering a broad selection of addressing methods and test area selection.

Changes: This version implements the option to include a timestamp in the filenames for log and error messages. It also includes better validation of command line arguments and flags. This version has been tested and verified stable on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Cygwin.

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Release Tags: TimeStamp, filename, Command Line, validation, Stable

Tags: disk, test, stress, device, partition, Slice, Logical Volume, visual, performance, Analysis, random, Seek, copy, Comparison, Evaluation, Unix, Linux, BSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, SunOS, Source code, portable, Power6, Power7, Itanium, PA-Risc, SPARC, AMD64, Intel

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T20:34:23Z
FusionInventory Agent is an agent for OCS Inventory and GLPI. It's designed to be open and easy to extend.

Changes: This release fix OCS Inventory deployment support and various minor things.

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Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-01T20:02:06Z
NolaPro is a Web-based accounting, inventory, POS, and business management suite. It integrates well with other applications as an accounting backend using custom development, APIs, and/or code hook plug-ins. Standard modules include AP, AR, POS, payroll, order entry, inventory tracking, customer records, a B2B Web portal, and an osCommerce shopping cart. This suite can be configured for LAN or Web access, and offers optional security measures like user monitoring and IP access restrictions. The application has built in translation tools, and multi-currency features are currently in development.

Changes: This release improves the way the PO List displays. It adds a compatibility change for jpgraph. It adds a cost column to the Inventory Item Usage History report. Payments have been changed so that GL is always cash if the cash type payment is selected. Tweaks have been made to custom invoice options. Changes to bank OFX import to handle Wells Fargo files. Aging Report now has optional sort by inventory location. Invoice summary can now show the amount of sales tax remaining to be paid. Invoice sales personnel selection now takes precedent over customer file default.

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Tags: Office/Business, Financial, Accounting, Point-Of-Sale, inventory management, Business Service Management, time tracking

Licenses: Freeware, PHP 5

2010-09-01T23:06:49Z
ZenMagick is an OO database API and MVC frontend for Zen Cart. It includes a powerful plugin architecture, central validation rules, and caching. The alternative MVC-based theme system offers superior separation of application code and custom HTML. Sensible event handling allows one to modify the final HTML, which allows things like caching and code injection.

Changes: An admin UI scratch rewrite, separate from the existing Zen Cart admin. Improved localization code with gettext style .po support. The new admin UI is also available as a stand-alone application. Improved caching, now also on the template file level. Huge performance improvements for large catalogs. Based on Zen Cart 1.3.9f. SwiftMailer integration to replace existing email functions.

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Release Tags: admin UI, caching, performance

Tags: Zen Cart, e-commerce, shopping cart, framework

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-01T23:10:39Z
cpuid dumps detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU (s).

Changes: This release fixes a bug with the -f option and new-style dumps. It adds a few chips to the synth field. It corrects a build problem on x86_64 with -O2. An x86_64 version has been released.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Systems Administration

Licenses: GPLv2

2010-09-01T20:00:57Z
CT-Calc is a US paycheck calculator with up-to-date withholding rules. Thanks to its Java Web Start deployment, it can be used offline, yet still retains the ability to automatically update when tax tables or calculator features have changed.

Changes: Updated NYC Resident; new rates start 9/1/2010.

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Tags: Office/Business, Financial

Licenses: Proprietary

2010-09-01T19:11:57Z
quIRC is a lightweight console-mode IRC client. It makes heavy use of terminal escape sequences to provide backscroll, tabs (for multiple channels and servers), and color.

Changes: This version adds the /ignore command and fixes several bugs. When tabs are disconnected (e.g. from being kicked or the connection being dropped), instead of closing they simply become 'dead', thus retaining the scrollback buffer. /rejoin and /reconnect commands have been added.

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Release Tags: Minor, features

Tags: IRC, Client, terminal, Console

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T19:06:45Z
Tin Hat is a Linux distribution derived from hardened Gentoo. It aims to provide a very secure, stable, and fast desktop environment that lives purely in RAM. Tin Hat boots from CD, or optionally USB pen drive, but it is not a LiveCD in that it does not mount any file system from the boot device. Rather, Tin Hat employs a massive squashfs image which expands into tmpfs upon booting. This makes for long boot times, but remarkable speeds during human-computer interaction.

Changes: The hardened toolchain was kept steady with only a minor bump to glibc. The kernel was updated to Gentoo's hardened-sources-2.6.34-r2 based on vanilla 2.6.34.4. Over 260 packages were upgraded, including Gnome 2.30.2 and Firefox 3.6.8.

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Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

Tags: Desktop Environment, GNOME, Security, Cryptography, Operating Systems, Linux Distributions, CD-Based, Operating System Kernels, Linux

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T17:10:47Z
JavaScript Recurring Dates Generator is a JavaScript library to generate recurring dates. For example: "Every month on the last Sunday starting on 02/10/09 until 03/30/10". This library will generate a list of dates for those types of patterns.

Changes: First release.

Tags: JavaScript, Calendar, Libraries

Licenses: MIT

2010-09-01T16:31:15Z
Sync Mail Dir is a set of utilities to synchronize a pair of mailboxes in Maildir format using SSH to transfer data. It provides the smd-pull utility to pull changes made on the remote mailbox, smd-push to propagate local changes to the remote mailbox, and smd-loop to iterate push and pull in a timely way. Unlike OfflineIMAP It requires no IMAP server to be installed on the remote host. Moreover, it never attempts to automatically resolve conflicts between incompatible mailbox statuses; it just notifies the user explaining how he can fix the problem. Its design is similar to that of Maildirsync, but it is more efficient in terms of CPU cycles and disk I/O.

Changes: The Gnome applet now check network manager status, and automatically pauses if the computer is disconnected from any network.

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T15:59:42Z
IndiMail is a messaging platform built using qmail and other messaging software. IndiMail has the ability to distribute the users in a domain across multiple hosts. IndiMail has multiple queues (called a queue collection), which can achiever very high concurrencies. The system IDs and configuration files used by IndiMail are all configurable through a set of environment variables, allowing you to customize IndiMail the way you want. IndiMail does not use hard-coded uid/gid in the executables, which makes it easy to distribute a binary package. IndiMail has features that any modern email server should have: SMTP, QMQP, QMTP, IMAP, POP3, DKIM, BATV, greylisting, filtering capability, and spam/virus control.

Changes: This release adds CRAM-MD5 authentication to qmail-remote using Erwin Hoffman's code. The number of levels in a directory when creating home directories has been made configurable. ClamAV has been upgraded to 0.96.2.

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Release Tags: CRAM-MD5, qmail-remote, qmail indimail

Tags: Communications, Email, Mail Transport Agents, Post-Office, IMAP, POP3, Greylisting, BATV, SMTP, QMTP, QMQP

Licenses: GPLv3

2010-09-01T14:50:21Z
System Configuration Collector (SCC) is yet another configuration collector. It consists of a client and a server part. The client collects configuration data in a structured snapshot, compares the new snapshot with the previous one, and adds differences to a logbook. Then the snapshot and the logbook are converted to HTML for local inspection. Optionally, the data can be sent to a system running the server software. On the server, summaries of the data are generated, and search/compare operations on the snapshots and logbooks are available via a Web interface.

Changes: The -P option has been added to scc.sh to specify non-default ports for scp and smtp transfers. The EMC powermt data has been added to the snapshots. Several changes have been implemented to support Minix. The idents of all files in $PATH have been added to the snapshots for all BSD variants. The build process for ttylinux and dragonflybsd has been updated.

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Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements

Tags: Monitoring, Systems Administration, Utilities

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-01T12:47:27Z
KDE Partition Manager allows you to manage your disks, partitions, and file systems. It can create, resize, delete, copy, backup, and restore partitions with a large number of supported file systems (ext2/3/4, Reiserfs, NTFS, FAT32, and more).

Changes: Some small bugs and annoyances were fixed. The build system was updated to properly work on newer Linux distributions.

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Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Desktop Environment, KDE, Archiving, backup, Mirroring, Filesystems, Installation/Setup, Recovery Tools, Systems Administration

Licenses: GPL

2010-09-01T12:01:24Z
c++-gtk-utils is a lightweight library containing a number of classes and functions for programming GTK+ programs using C++ in POSIX environments where the user does not want to use a full-on wrapper such as gtkmm or wxWidgets. It provides classes for managing the lifetimes of GTK+ widgets and windows that will make GTK+ exception safe, functions to make single instance programs where restarting will bring up the existing instance, smart pointer classes for memory management, thread-safe signal/slot classes with automatic disconnection, classes for using std iostreams with files opened with Unix file descriptors, functions for connecting a callback object and a Unix file descriptor to the main loop with provision for automatic disconnection, classes and functions for inter-thread communication, some convenience pthread wrapper classes., a class encapsulating anonymous Unix pipes, a class to reassemble UTF-8 sent over pipes and sockets, and classes for printing Postscript files and plain text using the GTK+ print system.

Changes: The new basic_fdistream::set_byteswap() and basic_fdinbuf::set_byteswap() functions are provided for wide stream input to provide conversion of incoming text to native endian format where required. Other implementation and documentation improvements were made.

Tags: C++, GTK+

Licenses: LGPL

2010-09-01T11:39:54Z
Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It lets you create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, or just simple HTML. Visifire's unique features are visually stunning animated charts, the ability to be embedded into any Web page in minutes, a tiny footprint (140 KB), and enterprise grade features.

Changes: Bugs were fixed.

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Tags: Software Development, Libraries, Scientific/Engineering, Visualization, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, CGI Tools/Libraries

Licenses: GPLv3

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