Science News reports on a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters in which an international team of researchers describes their computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed. Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose’s weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold — the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon. “Mathematically, ‘naked’ singularities, or those without event horizons, can exist, but physicists wouldn’t know what to make of them. All known mechanisms for the formation of singularities also create an event horizon, and Penrose conjectured that there must be some physical principle — a ‘cosmic censor’ — that forbids singularity nakedness…”
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GChart is a pure-GWT client-side charting
solution. It does not require browser plugins,
external JavaScript, or server round-trips. The
package supports bar, line, and pie charts, custom ticks, left and right y axes, grid-lines, annotated data points, and more.
License: The Apache License 2.0
Changes:
Client-side, line charts are now much faster and better looking thanks to a new interface that lets you plug an external GWT vector graphics library (canvas) into GChart. The updated live demo plugs into the GWT incubator’s graphics library to update a sine/cosine chart 10 times faster in IE7 and 20 times faster in FF2, compared to using GChart’s built-in, HTML-rectangle-based algorithms.
Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card accounts.
License: The Apache License 2.0
Changes:
Backup and restore functionality has been added.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU. It supports NVIDIA and ATI video cards.
tuitest is a tool to create and run automated
tests of text user interfaces. It is meant as a
complement to the widespread use of unit tests,
and uses concepts known from GUI testing tools
with the difference that it applies them
specifically to text- and terminal-based user
interfaces. It consists of a recorder that records
the interaction with an application under tests
and generates a Ruby script that replays the same
interaction, optionally with the same timing. Ruby
replaying is supported through a native Ruby module.
Seed7 is a general purpose programming language.
It is a higher level language compared to Ada,
C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and
operators can be declared easily. Functions with
type results and type parameters are more elegant
than a template or generics concept. Object
orientation is used when it brings advantages and
not in places when other solutions are more
obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts
of other programming languages, it is generally
not considered as a direct descendant of any other
programming language.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The chapter about primitive actions in the manual was improved. The definition of STD_NULL in the seed7_05.s7i library was improved to support read and write operations with STD_NULL. The bas7.sd7 (basic interpreter) example program was improved. The compiler (comp.sd7) was improved to support local interface declarations and dynamic functions that refer to constant values. Several improvements were made to support compilation with the cl compiler from MSVC and the bcc32 compiler. The function bigCLit() was improved to avoid C code that the cl C compiler miscompiles to the wrong machine code.
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
application. The initial target platform is Linux,
using the infrastructure of the Jack Audio
Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced
Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI. It is
meant to be a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the
personal home studio.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A spurious MIDI events recording bug has been fixed. Audio track monitoring and plug-in loop processing has been slightly improved if not fixed. The MIDI clip editor has improved precision and correct snapping. Multiple track mute and solo one-click toggling. Better MIDI connection persistence across sessions. Record-armed tracks aren’t muted on playback anymore. Optimized audio clip waveform caching and drawing. Many other fixes.
AntTweakBar is a small and easy-to-use C/C++ library that allows programmers to quickly add a light and intuitive GUI into OpenGL or DirectX based graphic programs to interactively tweak them. Program variables can be linked to a graphical control that allows users to modify them. Programmers are not required to design the graphical interface by providing coordinates or by using a visual UI editor. Controls are automatically organized following an optional given hierarchy.
License: zlib/libpng License
Changes:
This release supports quaternion and direction variables allowing for the interactive tweaking of rotations and 3D vectors, along with several other improvements.
PEBL is software for creating psychology
experiments. PEBL offers a simple programming
language tailor-made for creating and conducting
simple experiments.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version offers many fixes and improvements, including additional drawing functions, ten new tests in the test battery, and better robustness on Windows.
Mordred is a tool for mechanical engineers to
calculate the movements and forces of a mechanical
system. For the existence of a solution, it is
necessary that the system be statically statically
determinate. The results can be logged to a
textual report, and can be displayed graphically.
You define your mechanism graphically, for the
most part, but can define your forces and
coordinates textually in order to reach full
precision. It requires Java 6 in order to run.
SDoP (Simple DocBook Processor) reads a DocBook
XML file, processes it into typeset pages, and
outputs the result as PostScript (which can easily
be converted to a PDF). It is “simple” because it
supports only a subset of DocBook, and also
because it does not make use of a DTD or
stylesheets or any other heavyweight apparatus. It
is a single program. SDoP is used to format the
Exim reference manual.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
A few minor bugs have been fixed. It is possible to specify a different font for subsection titles.
p@rdalys provides the full configuration set for
the Kolab Server and is based on puppet. Besides
the configuration data, it provides Ruby
extensions to puppet.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This is an intermediate release that provides many fixes and improvements but does not yet deliver the complete Kolab server configuration.
bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot without special configuration or directory preparation. It will work out-of-the-box with almost no configuration required, and works on all Unix variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release brings the stable branch up to date with all bugfixes and improvements in the development tree.
PHPLiveX is a lightweight PHP-JavaScript class
library that helps you integrate AJAX into your
PHP applications. Without loading a page again,
you may call your PHP functions in the same page,
submit your form to an URL, and send a request to
another page with passing of any type of data.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Now a select box can be used as a “target” DOM element for the response. For example, it may be used when listing towns after a choice of city in drop-down menus. A bug that occurred when using “=” and “%” characters has been fixed. A bug that occurred when AJAXifying more than one class has been fixed. Now the “params” option may be used with the “SubmitForm” method.
Wings 3D is a powerful and easy to use 3D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release features many new tools, preference options, bugfixes, and a Turkish translation.
The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based
application that allows you to manage your goods
at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster
management, and it automatically creates shopping
lists that can be printed out or downloaded by
cellphone. It also watches “best before” dates and
informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that
date. The complete application is a system that
can be accessed from nearly everywhere and offers
you the possibility to find out what you really
need next from the supermarket.
License: Freeware
Changes:
After a new product is scanned, the user can jump to the search mask directly. The full software is now available in English on English systems.
rwdtinker is the core application for a Ruby
application framework using the RubyWebDialogs
GUI. It provides a system for developing programs,
and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a
developer to combine and create applets to
implement an application. It features built-in bug
report submission, remote control with UDP ports,
a test framework, and context-sensitive help.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has changed PDA handling in rwd.rb. It has added logging, and a log review screen in the tinker back window. It also changes applet loading to not depend on version config files.
Spensierato is a simple-to-use Web site CMS.
It is designed to allow in-site editing so that
non-technical users can just find the page, update
an element, and save it. It is written in PHP using a MySQL backend and released under the GPL. Some components use different license agreements; details are included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release installs on PHP with MySQL. mod_rewrite has been made optional, so it should work on other Web servers. There are fixes for skins to work better if Tidy is not installed. There is a major fix, as ‘Text Articles’ were not been saved in Pre Release 5.
jVSTwRapper is an easy and reliable Java wrapper
for the Steinberg VST interface. It enables you to
develop VST 2.4 compatible audio plugins and
virtual instruments and user interfaces with the
Java programming language. Three demo plugins
(with source) are included.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Integrated with VSTAU for Audio Unit support. Apache Maven integration allows you to create a .zip file for your jVSTwRapper plugin for all 3 supported platforms. Maven-based compilation and deployment of the wrapper itself. A simple GUI to show/hide the plugin when window embedding is turned off. Greatly improved GUI stability on all platforms. Automation support for the JayDLay example plugin. A tricky threading bug has been fixed. A new example VST instrument: LiquinthVST. Performance improvements, in particular further minimizing the need for garbage collection.
Bible-Discovery is complex Bible studying
software. It contains several Bible translations,
dictionaries, tools for helping to understand the
texts in the original language, bookmark handling,
customizable font size and colour, a biblical text
importing pane, and a parallel and comparative
Bible read feature.
License: Shareware
Changes:
The language of the German interface has been updated. A German Web site has been added.
openQRM Plug-ins is a collection of
community-supported plug-ins that enable openQRM
to manage other enterprise and open source software.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The Nagios configuration for the openQRM network was simplified and automated via nmap2nagios-ng.
Vuurmuur is a firewall manager for Linux that supports traffic shaping. It has powerful monitoring features for logging and live connections. It can be managed entirely through an Ncurses GUI, on the console, or through SSH.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Detection for support for the NAT random option was added. Checks for the iptables, iptables-restore, and tc command line tools were fixed.
NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which
are “ASCII” art in the CP437 codepage. The
advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text
editor are preset font and encoding settings,
automatic window size, and clickable hyperlinks.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release fixes sensitivity updating of menu items, fixes AssertionErrors when installing, and adds a Simplified Chinese translation.
Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and
QScintilla2. It has integrated project management
capabilities with class browsing functions, gives
developers an unlimited number of editors with
syntax highlighting and code folding, an
integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class
browsing capabilities for Python files, and more.
Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3
development environment.
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program
written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but
feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It
uses the widely known video processing swissknife,
transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
License: Artistic License
Changes:
This release adds a new translation to Danish. It also fixes a cluster avimerge problem with recent transcode versions, and adds full support for anamporh transcoding without any scaling applied.
pisa converts HTML to PDF using the ReportLab
Toolkit, the HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML
5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). The main
benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills
like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF
templates very quickly without learning new
technologies.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The license has been changed to the GPLv2. There are minor changes.
Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like
documentation system for C++, C, Objective-C, C#,
Java, IDL, Python, PHP, VHDL, and Fortran. Doxygen
can be used to generate an on-line class browser
(in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in
LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen
can also be configured to extract the
code-structure from undocumented source files.
This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams
and hyperlinked source code. This type of
information can be very useful to quickly find
your way in large source distributions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version fixes the problem where doxygen stops
with an error when GENERATE_HTML was set to NO. It
also includes a couple of other fixes, and it is
now possible to set the size of the font for dot
generated graphs.
SqlBuilder is a library that attempts to take the
pain out of generating SQL queries within Java
programs. It wraps the SQL syntax within very
lightweight and easy to use Java objects that
follow the “builder” paradigm (similar to
StringBuilder). This changes many common SQL
syntactical, runtime errors into Java compile-time
errors.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release fixes handling of Boolean values (it handles them as numbers because SQL 92 has no notion of a real Boolean type).
