tsa writes “Ars Technica reports that 13 of the 23 members from the technical committee of the Norwegian standards body, the organization that manages technical standards for the country, have resigned because of the way the OOXML standardization was handled. We’ve previously discussed Norway’s protest and ISO’s rejection of other appeals. From the article: ‘The standardization process for Microsoft’s office format has been plagued with controversy. Critics have challenged the validity of its ISO approval and allege that procedural irregularities and outright misconduct marred the voting process in national standards bodies around the world. Norway has faced particularly close scrutiny because the country reversed its vote against approval despite strong opposition to the format by a majority of the members who participated in the technical committee.’”
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grapcha is a captcha generator based on Graphviz.
It produces diagrams that are big and easy to read
by humans but hard to break with bots. A person
reads the diagram by starting at the green
“diamond” and stopping at the red “square”, while
ignoring the eventual random padding at the
beginning and end for short texts.
Mini SNMP Daemon is a minimal implementation of an
SNMP daemon. It is targeted for usage in embedded
systems with limited disk and memory resources.
All configuration is done using commandline
arguments. It supports basic CPU, memory, disk,
and network interface statistics.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release adds an install target, developer documentation, and patches for FreeBSD support. It has minor bugfixes.
The GIMP User Manual is a user manual for the
GIMP. It is written for the GIMP Help Browser, but
can produce help pages for other formats as well.
License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Changes:
This release features mostly bugfixes as well as new content in the following languages: German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Korean, Russian, and English.
PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python.
PyYAML features a complete YAML 1.1 parser,
Unicode support, pickle support, capable extension
API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports
standard YAML tags and provides Python-specific
tags that allow the representation of an arbitrary
Python object. PyYAML is applicable for a broad
range of tasks from complex configuration files to
object serialization and persistence.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
The setup.py script detects LibYAML and builds LibYAML bindings automatically. Building LibYAML bindings no longer requires Pyrex installed. ‘yaml.load()’ raises an exception if the input stream contains more than one YAML document. Exceptions produced by LibYAML bindings have been fixed. A dot ‘.’ character being recognized as !!float has been fixed. A Python 2.3 compatibility issue in constructing !!timestamp values has been fixed. The attributes ‘yaml.__version__’ and ‘yaml.__with_libyaml__’ have been added.
Nagiosgraph is an add-on for Nagios. It collects
service perfdata in RRD format, and displays the
resulting graphs via CGI.
License: Artistic License
Changes:
This release fixes a bug where it would only process one line when used via service_perfdata_file. It moves all subroutines into ngshared.pm and adds more tests. It separates graph creation from show.cgi into showgraph.cgi (now show.cgi, showhost.cgi, and showservice.cgi just build HTML and call showgraph.cgi). It updates configuration documentation for upgrades to hopefully clarify that the only configuration change in the executable scripts is done via the ‘use lib ….’ line at the beginning of each script.
wmjump provides keyboard navigation for the Linux
desktop. Use the keyboard to switch between
windows and workspaces. A menu is shown with the
colored list of windows, marked by the letters
a-z. Pressing the key a-z “teleports” to that
window. The colors of the buttons are configurable.
vitetris is a Tetris clone for the terminal that
doesn’t need ncurses. It features configurable
keys, a high score table, and 2-player mode on the
same computer or over network. Joysticks/gamepads
are supported on Linux. Gameplay is much like the
early Tetris games by Nintendo.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release fixes makefiles on OS X, and tries to avoid a certain 1 second timeout that would close the connection during network play.
XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that
supports many popular features of other Wikis like
the Wiki syntax, version control, attachments,
security, and searching, but also many advanced
features like templates, database and dynamic
development using the velocity or groovy scripting
language, a plugin system and skinability, J2EE
scalability, XML/RPC remote API, Portlet
integration, statistics, an RSS feed, PDF
exporting, and WYSIWYG editing.
Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor.
It features arbitrary language scripting, bookmarking, regular expression searching, parsed (”smart”) indentation, macro recording and playback, a multi-element clipboard, multi-level undo, a customizable status line, completely customizable keyboard mapping, and customizable syntax highlighting.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
256 color support has been added. Support for opening files with “filepath:linenumber” syntax has been added. The ability to position the cursor with a code closer has been added. Code closers can now contain newlines. Integration with Klipper (KDE clipboard) has been added. Support for regexp match placeholders has been added. An eol_behaviour setting has been added. Various minor bugs have been fixed. The MIT license has been adopted.
Connect Daily is a Web calendar and resource management application. Features include unlimited users, email reminders, public and private calendars, AJAX support, RSS, CSV import/export, and iCal support. Planner views and approvals prevent double-booking resources and make managing your facility a snap. A powerful security system provides flexible permission control. Authentication via LDAP or Active Directory is supported.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This release adds an audit trail to track system changes. It adds RSS import. Imports can now be marked as recurring for periodic automatic re-import. Import screens support an undo function. A container-level authentication provider has been added, including support for Windows integrated security. The planner view now supports variable period display. There are multiple other improvements in the import function. There are some 18 or so minor bugfixes.
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release contains 16 plugins.
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Support for client SSL certificates. Better support for SSL certificate stores to be able to verify server certificates. Renaming of newsgroups is possible. Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the duration of the session. Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window. Support for animated GIFs in the message view. The Spam/Ham flag is now stored on the IMAP server when possible, using “Junk” and “NonJunk” keywords. All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their non-deprecated equivalents.
Geomyidae is a generic daemon for the Gopher
protocol written in C. It supports dynamic
content, logging, privilege separation, and
automated file/directory indexing.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
The license was changed to MIT/X.
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It
allows you to connect to an sshd server and use
port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer,
etc. You can integrate its functionality into your
own Java programs.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release fixes a problem in using the SOCS4 proxy and an NPE in closing the session in some cases.
ExtSQL is now a new database server. It is a
significant set of independently developed
software additions and patches to the existing
source code of both MySQL and PostgreSQL. It
provides a new set of SQL language features that
make it easy for a DBA to monitor and audit
activity on a busy server and account for activity
by user, database, or even connecting client host.
It even includes the ability to store historical
usage data in amounts and time intervals specified
by the DBA. It is not a separate monitoring
utility, but built into the core of both servers.
TTFSampler takes a list of TrueType fonts on the
commandline and
generates a sample sheet in PDF format. The sample
sheet contains
several lines of text with each line demonstrating
the appearance of a
different font.
openPlaG is a function graph plotter for use on
Web sites. It allows the
display of up to three function graphs, their
derivatives, and their
integrals. It can compute several different
functions, with a focus on
probability functions.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Differential/integral functions D2, D3, S2, and S3, the function mo, an improved gamma function, constant pi2, and some fixes.
p300 is a P2P application that allows you to share directories with other computers on a LAN or VPN. Other hosts running
p300 are automatically discovered using IP Multicast. Bandwidth limiting is supported. You can configure which hosts may access your shared directories. You can use an integrated browser and download manager to download files from other p300 programs on your network, or use your Web browser. You can also use WebDAV to mount the directories from other computers. A search function and an integrated chat (instant messenger) are available.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release adds a search function that searches
all p300 hosts on the
network.
python-gammu is a set of Python bindings for
Gammu, the GSM mobile manager for various cellular
phones. It can work with any phone that Gammu
supports, including many models by Nokia, Siemens,
and Alcatel.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for new Gammu features
and fixes several
coding errors.
Maarch is a DMS infrastructure dedicated to the
legal archiving of high volumes of static
documents. Unlike most DMS tools, it’s a toolbox
approach that allows one to build highly
integrated custom applications. As a proof of
concept, Maarch comes with two business
applications: Maarch LetterBox for mail management
and Maarch PeopleBox for HR document management.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds compatibility with Maarch
Framework 3.
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia, Symbian, and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung, SE, and others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also includes a command line utility that can make many things (including backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from the PHP interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a lot of problems related to
the AT engine, SMS
encoding, and compatibility with some Nokia phones.
Ruby/AWS is a high-level Ruby language interface
to the Amazon Associates Web Service API v4. It
aims to automate and remove the grunt work of
interacting with the Amazon API and, in so doing,
make it much easier to use. Ruby/AWS is the
successor to Ruby/Amazon.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
It’s now possible to have Ruby/AWS use a user
configuration file with a name other than
.amazonrc. This is achieved by defining
$AMAZONRCFILE. If left undefined, the default of
.amazonrc is used. Locations other than $HOME
were not being checked for .amazonrc. This bug has
now been fixed.
Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment, database, cursor, sequence, and transaction objects, and each of these is exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. It has complete support for Berkeley DB distributed transactions and complete support for Berkeley DB Replication Manager. The goal is to mirror most of the real BerkeleyDB API.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
This release is bundled in Python 2.6, and it is
compatible with Python 3.0rc1.
The Netty project is an effort to provide an
asynchronous, event-driven network application
framework and tools for rapid development of
maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability
protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP/IP socket servers.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
A significant performance improvement was made.
API usability was improved. The race conditions
related to SSL and thread pool were fixed.
Maarch is a DMS infrastructure dedicated to the
legal archiving of high volumes of static
documents. Unlike most DMS tools, it’s a toolbox
approach that allows one to build highly
integrated custom applications. As a proof of
concept, Maarch comes with two business
applications: Maarch LetterBox for mail management
and Maarch PeopleBox for HR document management.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new modular architecture is used to enhance
usability, access rights to documents,
integration, and adaptation. New modules were
added to implement indexing and searching, folder
management, physical archive management,
autofoldering, and basket management. Ergonomy was
improved.
EditiX is a cross-platform and multi-purpose XML editor and XSLT debugger (1.0 and 2.0), which helps Web authors and programmers use XML and XML-related technologies, such as XSLT, FO, and XSD schemas. It provides a lot of functionality within a refined IDE, which guides the user with intelligent entry helpers, and has real-time XPath location and syntax error detection. It allows the user to apply an XSLT or FO transformation, and shows the result in a separate view. It includes default templates for XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG, MathML, and XML FO. It can generate schema W3C, DTD or RelaxNG from a document instance.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This release improves the schema validator and
includes an XSLT 2.0 validator. The user can
generate document instances from a DTD element or
a schema element. The diff system has been
rewritten. The user can easily navigate in the
structure with various shortcuts. Drag ‘n drop is
managed for the visual schema editor.
Flamerobin is a database administration tool for
the Firebird RDBMS. It features a small footprint,
fast execution, cross-platform compatibility, and
only depends on other open source software.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
This release brings new features like Firebird 2.1
support, tab-based property pages for database
objects (like the Firefox browser), the ability to
load and save BLOB data in the DataGrid to files,
and an improved dialog for inserting new rows.
