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January 09, 2005

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Kenosis and the World Free Web
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1440

Four years ago, I wrote an article for freshmeat called "The World Free
Web" in which I described a way to make Web content available in a
distributed and anonymous way via Freenet. Back then, I expected, as
did many others, that Freenet was on the verge of completion, and all
that remained was to think of interesting new applications to write on
this new platform.

Adcd 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184030/

Adcd is a text mode CD player for Linux. It features all the functions
expected in a compact disc player, including playing selected tracks,
random playing, and continuous playing.

aescrypt2 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184046/

aescrypt2 is a command line file encryption program that relies on
AES-CBC-256 plus HMAC-SHA256. It has been designed to be portable
(works on all Unix flavors and Win32) as well as very straightforward
to use.

ARSC Really Simple Chat 3.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184045/

ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL.
It works with every browser in existence, even text-based ones, and it
uses the server push technique or, if possible, its own socket server.
It is very simple to install and use ARSC. It includes some important
features, such as operators, kick-ing, whispering, and more. Multiple
rooms and different languages are available. To run ARSC on your site,
you need a Web server that understands PHP, and can connect to a MySQL
database.

C++ Regex Engine 0.03a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184011/

C++ Regex Engine provides a robust regular expression library for use
in C++. The syntax of the regular expression language is very close to
the Perl 5 standard. The classes given somewhat mirror those found in
Java's regular expression library, but have several improvements. The
intended audience of this package is anyone who does a lot of data
parsing (e.g. sysadmins), people tired of trying to decipher Perl
scripts, and regular expression beginners who know C++. Some knowledge
of the STL's vector and string will come in handy, but isn't necessary.

cbviewer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184043/

cbviewer is a viewer for comic book archives in .zip, .rar, .cbz, and
.cbr formats.

CGI:IRC 0.5.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184047/

CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that allows you to use IRC from a Web
browser without having to have access to an IRC port. It does not use
Java, but it does need a browser capable of rendering frames. It can be
used on a Web page to allow users to chat, or it can be used to access
chat from behind a firewall.

cwdaemon 0.9.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184035/

cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel or serial port
and a simple transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter
from a text message sent to it via the UDP protocol.

Data Access Objects for PHP5 Alpha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/183801/

Data Access Objects for PHP5 is a set of classes used for connecting to
databases in PHP 5. They provide developers with a unified OO API for
accessing databases.

DBMonster 1.0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184027/

DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with
tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and
testing the application performance under heavy database load.
DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an
SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to
use.

Debrief 2003 Release 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184018/

Debrief is an Open Source Java application used to analyze ship and
submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. The analyst is presented with
calculated performance data during "runs" of the vessel
tracks, and is able to annotate the diagram before exporting it in WMF
format.

Entagged 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184041/

Entagged is a Java audio file tagger which uses the freedb online
database for the retrieval of the tags. It supports custom file
renaming based on the tags (with any directory stucture), as well as
custom tagging based on the file names. MP3, Ogg, and FLAC are
currently supported.

ffmpeg-php extension 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184016/

ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use
object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from
movies and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie
files as images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions.
This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movie
files, and it's fast enough to extract thumbnails on the fly so that
thumbnail images don't need to be stored. ffmpeg-php is also useful for
reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...).
ffmpeg-php can access many of the formats supported by ffmpeg.

FormattedDataSet API 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184050/

The FormattedDataSet API is an easy way to generate dynamic text (HTML,
XML, WML, JavaScript, etc.). It combines data and formatting to
generate the dynamic text. Templates contain formatting. Out of the
box, it can generate all common HTML elements (table, list box, drop
down list box, multi-select list box, etc.) and XML. Developers can
easily create their own templates.

IPplan 4.20b-BETA (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184012/

IPplan is a Web-based, multilingual IP address management and tracking
tool which simplifies the administration of your IP address space. It
can handle a single network or multiple networks with overlapping
address spaces. It features DNS administration, internationalization,
importing of network definitions from routing tables, importing of
definitions from TAB-delimited files and NMAP's XML format, support for
multiple administrators with different access profiles (per group, per
customer, per network, etc.), definitions of address space authority
boundaries per group, finding free address space across a range,
display of overlapping address spaces between networks, search
capabilities, an audit log, statistics, circuit tracking, and tracking
and sending SWIP/registrar information.

JChassis ANSI Terminal Controller 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184020/

JChassis ANSI Terminal Controller is a Java API for controlling
ANSI-compliant terminals and terminal emulators such a Linux virtual
terminals, xterm, Gnome Terminal, and KDE Konsole. The library can be
used to display character styles and colors and graphical characters in
those environments. It is a repackaging of various JChassis modules
into a standalone library that does not require the JChassis SDK or
framework.

JKFlow.pm 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/183959/

JKFlow is an easy XML configurable report module for FlowScan. It gives
network administrators the ability to monitor for specific
applications/protocols/services on directions, which are sections of
source- and destination subnets, that can be defined within subnets, on
exporters or globally. JKGrapher.pl is an additional CGI-script for
displaying the RRDTool graphs.

jPortKnock 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184014/

Port knocking describes a method of establishing a connection to a
networked computer with no open port. Ports are opened with the use of
port knock sequences: a series of connection attempts to a series of
closed and logged ports. jPortKnock is an implementation of this
method.

Key Netplug 1.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184015/

Netplug is a Linux daemon that manages network interfaces in response
to network cables being plugged in and out. If you're familiar with
Windows XP, which just does the Right Thing when you plug an ethernet
cable into a laptop, netplug will need no further explanation.
Basically, netplug brings up an interface and runs a DHCP client when a
cable is plugged into that interface, and it brings the interface down
when the cable is unplugged. On a typical Linux system or laptop, you
have to run a command (such as "/sbin/ifup") manually to
handle these events, but netplug automates this for you.

libasyncns 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184034/

libasyncns is a C library for executing name service queries
asynchronously. It is an asynchronous wrapper around getaddrinfo(3) and
getnameinfo(3) from the libc.

Logcheck 1.2.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184019/

Logcheck parses system logs and generates email reports based on
anomalies. Anomolies can be defined by users with 'violations' files.
It differentiates between 'Active System Attacks', 'Security
Violations', and 'Unusual Activity', and is smart enough to remember
where in the log it stopped processing to improve efficiency. It can
also warn when log files shrink, and does not report errors when they
are rotated.

Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184048/

mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster
recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more
CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on
another disk, NFS/CIFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or
system intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can
restore the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning,
which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination
disk does not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the
partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT,
VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. It can restore
disks in Software RAID and LVM mode. It supports the One Button
Disaster Recovery (OBDR) mode, which simulates a bootable CD-ROM on
tape.

OpenPSA 1.10.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184042/

OpenPSA is a Web-based Professional Services Automation suite including
project management, time tracking, document management, sales force
automation, direct marketing, help desk, and a group calendar. It runs
on the Midgard application server.

PunBB 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184028/

PunBB is a fast and lightweight discussion board. Its primary goal is
to be a faster, smaller, and less graphic alternative to otherwise
excellent discussion boards like phpBB, Invision Power Board, and
vBulletin. It has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but
is generally faster and outputs smaller pages.

QStars 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184026/

QStars is a Qt-based screen saver. It displays an image within a field
of moving stars.

SaVi 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184044/

SaVi is satellite visualization software that lets you create, run,
examine, and modify satellite orbits in two and three dimensions.
Simulations of Iridium, Teledesic, Globalstar, GPS, and other satellite
constellations are included. SaVi requires Tcl and Tk on a Unix system.
SaVi works well with the 3D renderer Geomview. Geomview is optional,
though recommended for its 3D rendering capabilities.

t-prot 1.48.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184021/

t-prot (TOFU Protection) is a filter which improves the readability of
email messages and Usenet posts by hiding some of their annoying parts.
The annoyances it handles include mailing list footers, signatures,
TOFU, sequences of blank lines, and repeated punctuation. TOFU is an
acronym that stands for "Text oben, Fullquote unten", a
German reference to the practice of adding just a few lines of original
text and quoting a complete message below them.

the mg2bot 0.62b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184017/

the mg2bot is an IRC bot that was originally written to do unique
channel maintenance but which now sports a homebrew plugin system,
increased channel awareness, and a bot networking capability.

touchbase 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184013/

touchbase is a modular plugin-style groupware framework based on the
OSGi specification. Its modules include link (bookmark) management and
RSS feed aggregation, but this could be expanded to provide support for
calendars, email, usenet, contacts, notes, and IM.

ttylinux 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184036/

ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of
disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or
ISDN and provide Web content to the world. The minimum hardware
requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of
RAM for a hard disk setup.

Vex 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184040/

Vex is a visual editor for XML. It features a word processor-like
interface.

VideoDB 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184049/

VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. Optionally, it features user management and authentication for
sharing the database with others.

Virtual Universe 0.48 (Unaverse Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/183867/

The "Virtual Universe" is a 3D cyberspace which offers more
possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and
instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace.
Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and
whole worlds. The "Virtual Universe" is a virtual reality
environment which runs on top of the Internet.

Zaurus Synchronization Repository 0.2.2 (zync)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/184010/

ZSRep (Zaurus Synchronization Repository) is a project whose main goal
is to provide a professional solution for synchronizing your Sharp
Zaurus with any Desktop PIM software on the Linux operating system. It
is designed specifically to work with the newer Sharp ROMs (DTM-based).




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