2 August 2009
02 Aug 22:35
Klavaro 1.2.2
Klavaro is a touch typing tutor that is very flexible and supports customizable keyboard layouts. Users can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course provided by the program was designed to not depend on specific layouts.
Release Notes: This version adds a new kind of exercise: error analysis. Collect more than 200 errors and try the adaptability exercise. Also, you can see the characters most prone to error in the adaptability charts.
02 Aug 22:34
stresslinux 0.4.111
stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems.
Release Notes: The build system has been changed to SUSE Studio. The base distribution is openSUSE 11.1 with updated packages of bandwidth, busybox, bonnie++, lshw, lm_sensors, iperf, ifstatus, memtest86+, smartmontools, stress, and x86info. USB and VMware images are available.
02 Aug 22:32
Task Coach 0.73.3
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.
Release Notes: This release fixes some bugs and adds support for synchronizing with version 1.1 of the iPhone app.
02 Aug 22:27
PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7.1
With a small codebase, the PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced resolver currently serving the DNS resolving needs of over 80 million Internet connections. Besides high performance (using kqueue or epoll, over 100 thousand qps on commodity hardware), it provides advanced anti-spoofing measures. In addition, the program caches server performance and timeouts, making it both network and user friendly. It also has built-in hooks for making graphs with rrdtool, providing insight into nameserver performance.
Release Notes: This release consists entirely of fixes for tiny bugs that have been reported over the past year. In addition, compatibility has been restored with the latest versions of the gcc compiler, the 'boost' libraries, and Solaris 10.
02 Aug 22:23
Thread Safe Template Library 1.2.7
Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides thread-safe containers with high grade of locking. It includes classes for multimaps based on a B-tree and a hash table. It also includes classes for a queue, a priority queue, a pipe, an alloccache, a timercache, a limitcache without global locking, and a fast shared mutual exclusion locker (also known as "rwlock" or "wmrg"). It's useful for writing multi-threaded applications, network services, and operating system components with high requirements for interactivity level.
Release Notes: Template definitions of functions members were split on declarations and implementation. The enumeration algorithm of the nbmap template was replaced with one that is faster and cheaper. The atomic API library has been refactored. Dependencies from MS with different declarations of interlocked functions in different SDKs were deleted.
02 Aug 22:22
JessyInk 1.3.0
JessyInk is a script that turns every layer of an Inkscape SVG image into a slide of a presentation. Current features include different transitions, an index sheet view, and automatic slide numbering.
Release Notes: This release features a drawing mode allowing users to draw on the slides during the presentation in the browser. Another interesting new feature is the ability to assign "views." This feature can be used to zoom in on a particular region of the slide. Also new in this release is the option to customize the key bindings. To further improve the compatibility and usability of JessyInk, custom keys can now be assigned to all actions. For maximum flexibility, each mode (slide, index, and drawing) has its own set of key bindings.
02 Aug 22:20
pmacct 0.12.0rc1
pmacct is a small set of passive network monitoring tools to account, filter, classify, aggregate, and export IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. A pluggable and flexible architecture allows storing collected network data in memory tables, RDBMSs (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, BDB), and flat files, and also export via IPFIX, NetFlow, or sFlow protocols to remote collectors. pmacct features fully customizable historical data breakdown, sampling, BGP correlation, tagging, and triggers. Libpcap, ULOG, sFlow v2/v4/v5, NetFlow v1/v5/v7/v8/v9, and IPFIX are supported data capturing methods.
Release Notes: A BGP daemon thread featuring per-peer RIBs was integrated in both NetFlow and sFlow collectors, nfacctd, and sfacctd. As a result, additional aggregation primitives are supported. These include standard and extended communities, AS-PATH, Local Preference, MED, and BGP next-hop. Origin and peer ASNs are supported at the same time, and careful support for source peer AS is introduced. 32-bit ASNs have been implemented throughout Netflow and sFlow collectors and probes. Tags have been increased to 4 bytes from 2. There are minor fixes.
02 Aug 22:19
Odyssey 0.5.1
Odyssey is a PIC programming application which can erase, read, and write a variety of PIC microcontrollers. It was originally written to work with the EPIC programmer but it should work with any parallel port programmer.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It fixes a GCC 4.3 compatibility issue, adds support for PIC16F627A, PIC16F628A, and PIC16F648A, and fixes a file name schema (Pic16f6xx.cxx becomes Pic16f6xxDevice.cxx).
02 Aug 22:17
Pyjamas 06~pre2
Pyjamas is a Python-to-Javascript compiler and an AJAX widget set for Web application development (its sister project is pyjamas-desktop). It is a port of Google's Web Toolkit to Python.
Release Notes: This is a testing pre-release of the upcoming 0.6 release. There are over 110 additions and enhancements to the compiler and the widget set itself. Also, pyjamas-desktop has been merged into the pyjamas release, and includes support for both XULrunner / Gecko, using python-hulahop, and Webkit (requiring a patched version of pywebkitgtk and Webkit).
02 Aug 21:36
TCPDF 4.6.023
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.
Release Notes: A bug related to the image alpha channel was fixed.
02 Aug 17:57
PasTmon 0.13-0
PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times, throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the plots.
Release Notes: This release brings support for multiple PasTmon sensors feeding into a single central PostgreSQL database. It has been ported to FreeBSD (7.1), has significant performance improvements, and has the beginnings of a complete rewrite of the PHP-based interface.
02 Aug 17:45
clive 2.2.4
clive is a command line utility for extracting videos from Youtube and other video sharing Web sites. It was originally written to bypass the Adobe Flash requirement needed to view the hosted videos.
Release Notes: This release ports --stream-pass from cclive, adds support for a few more Web sites, and fixes Dailymotion and Redtube support.
02 Aug 17:00
Hover 0.6.9
Hover is a WordPress plugin that replaces keywords with links and an optional popup. It uses JavaScript and CSS to create valid XHTML code and is based on mature JavaScript libraries like domTT and behaviour.js.
Release Notes: This release fixes a problem related to HTTPS with the internal checks and problems with popups containing the "'" (single-quote) character. Support for IE8 was introduced in domTT. The regex used for finding hovers has been changed, which leads to a minor incompatibility with the current scheme used by conditional replacement.
02 Aug 12:56
sha_digest 2.1
sha_digest is an implementation of the secure hash algorithms SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA 384, and SHA-512 as described in the FIPS 180-3 standard. It is written in standard compliant C (ANSI C89) and system- and architecture-agnostic. Byte- as well as bit-oriented hashing is supported. The package can be used as a shared library or its modular components can be integrated directly into other projects.
Release Notes: Changes to effect a small speed increase were made. In the Makefile, optimization is now switched on.
02 Aug 12:53
get_iplayer 2.14
get_iplayer allows a user to stream or make recordings of any BBC iPlayer TV (H.264/Quicktime), BBC iPlayer Radio (MP3/AAC/RealAudio), or BBC Podcasts (MP3/AAC). It downloads iPlayer subtitles, metadata, and thumbnails. It has full PVR functionality for automatic searching, queuing, and stream recording. Its plug-in architecture allows third-party channels to be added. Live and embedded iPlayer TV and Radio recording and streaming is also supported. The optional Web PVR Manager allows full PVR searching, recording, and playback support of available and recorded material.
Release Notes: A new automated installer was released, which includes a Web GUI and streaming proxy. A user command can be run after streaming to stdout. The flvstreamer exit code handling was made better when streaming. It retries when any non-zero exit code is returned from flvstreamer. The --force option now overrides --hide. In PVR Manager, a new logo is used. A new "Play" link was added to each programme. Clicking on it opens a player to play the contained M3U playlist. The ability to create a playlist from selected programmes in the GUI was added. Options were added to replace old command line arguments. A bug where get_iplayer was not correctly called for plugin evaluation was fixed.
02 Aug 12:51
spdatapickle 0.2
SPDataPickle is a library use to serialize and deserialize C structures to and from XML or JSON.
Release Notes: XML and JSON pickling were added.
02 Aug 12:50
Stateroom 1.0-RC2
Stateroom aims to provide a simple and easy to understand framework for creating state machines. It helps to maintain state in a clean and maintainable form.
Release Notes: This is the initial public release.
02 Aug 12:13
FeResPost 3.4.4
FeResPost is a library that allows the rapid development of small programs for the post-processing of Nastran or Samcef finite element results. The library allows easy manipulation of finite element models, groups, and results. Efficient post-processing is possible because the time-consuming operations are written in C/C++. The library is distributed as a COM component, a .NET assembly, as well as a Ruby compiled extension.
Release Notes: Several small bugs were corrected in COM component argument conversions (matrices and Arrays of boolean values). A bug in the failure criteria for CLA load response calculation was corrected.
02 Aug 12:11
Kouprey 20090801
Kouprey is a library that can be used to build and run parsers based on the Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) formalism. It does not have any special requirements beyond standard ECMAScript/JavaScript, and can be used to parse arbitrarily complex languages inside a Web browser or other JavaScript runtime. It has been used to parse complex general purpose programming languages, and comes with numerous examples.
Release Notes: A bug that prevented the "End" combinator from working properly was fixed. Several bugs in the various examples were fixed. Minor documentation updates were made. Versioning is now done according to release date.
02 Aug 12:07
pygame 1.9.0
Pygame is a set of Python extension modules designed for writing games. The core of pygame is wrapped on top of the SDL library.
Release Notes: Many fixes and improvements were made. More changes have gone into this release than any other pygame release. Experimental camera webcam, midi, and gfxdraw modules were added. Bugfixes were made for backwards compatibility issues introduced in the pygame 1.8.x series. Old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again. Py3k and Nokia mobile phone S60 are supported. Mac OS X support was improved by dropping the pyobjc dependency, improving the installer, and making sysfont work. pygame.examples and pygame.tests are available as modules. The examples were cleaned up. py2app and py2exe support were improved.
02 Aug 12:00
Weblog 2.2
Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input and outputs static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug and adds a feature. Sub-directories of the source directory are now visited and their content is automatically loaded. This way, you can organize your blog posts as you wish. For example, you could group posts on the same subject into a directory.
02 Aug 11:59
Flickcurl 1.13
Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and comments. It provides utilities such as "flickcurl" to exercise the API and "flickrdf" to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and machine tags.
Release Notes: Two new utility functions were added to get photo IDs from "farm" image URLs and to get the current webservice delay time. Requests were fixed to be dynamically allocated rather than use a fixed buffer. A resource leak bug for the HTTP user agent was fixed.
02 Aug 11:53
The Goblin and the Butterfly 1.0.0.1
The Goblin and the Butterfly (TGATB) is a 2D/3D client for the MMORPG of the same name.
Release Notes: The first skill, fighting, was implemented. Items and wearable items are in the game. Inventory and storage were implemented. The server is up and running.
02 Aug 06:27
Webconverger 5.2
Webconverger is a Live Web kiosk Linux distribution for public places. It is designed to get you on the Web easily without compromising your privacy.
Release Notes: A security update was made for Adobe's flashplayer.
02 Aug 06:25
Vendetta Online 1.8.84
Vendetta Online is a multi-platform 3D space-combat MMO for Windows, Mac, Linux/32 and Linux/64. The game permits players to interact in a vast online galaxy; fighting, trading, and mining their way to success. A "twitch" type real-time combat model makes true player skill the deciding factor instead of character advancement. Massive capital-ship battles shake the foundations of the major nations at war, while others struggle to push back the encroachment of the AI "Hives". A no-strings free trial is available.
Release Notes: All crystal and ice graphics were significantly improved, particularly for those with Pixel Shader 2.0 hardware or better. OpenGL Antialiasing modes were added. A crash in the OpenGL driver was fixed.
