mikesd81 writes “Google has developed ‘Mail Goggles,’ a Gmail add-on that makes sending email from Gmail more difficult during certain times (which you can set). If you have Mail Goggles installed, it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. You can adjust the math difficulty and times this option is in effect. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, ‘Water and bed for you. Or try again.’ Of course, if you set the math settings too high, you may have a tough time solving some of those problems in under 60 seconds, even when sober. Then again, if you’re sober, you could just turn Mail Goggles off and hit send on that impassioned letter to your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend or that flame to your boss.”
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Joomla is an award-winning content management
system (CMS) that will help you build Web sites
and other powerful online applications. The
JumpBox for Joomla saves a lot of time by
providing a production quality Joomla!
installation in very little time. This JumpBox is
for the Joomla 1.5.x series of releases. A JumpBox
is also available for the Joomla 1.0.x series of
releases.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
Joomla has been updated to 1.5.7. Restoring from 1.0 and newer Joomla 1.5 Jumpbox backups should work. This release no longer requires registration.
Project Pier is a self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects, and teams through an intuitive Web interface. It will help your organization communicate, collaborate, and get things done. Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. With the JumpBox for Project Pier it just takes a couple minutes to get a fully functional Project Pier installation to help you manage your projects. This JumpBox is based on the 1.1 JumpBox Platform and includes a backup system that supports archiving the state of the JumpBox to NFS, Windows File Shares, and Amazon S3.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
A unique SSL certificate for the JumpBox Administration Portal is generated on initial boot. The expiration date of the self signed certificate is 10 years from initial boot. An issue that complicated moving the JumpBox to a new directory with VMware has been resolved. Portability is still complicated by snapshots and suspends. Consider trying the JumpBox backup and restore tools where possible.
jOpenDocument is a pure Java library for
manipulation of OASIS Open Document files.
jOpenDocument is a library for developers looking
to use Open Document files without OpenOffice.org.
You can use jOpenDocument to generate dynamic
documents from Java, XML, or databases; to display
and print files with built-in viewers; to split,
concatenate, and manipulate pages; to automate
filling out of templates; and to use your
preferred langage via the standard ScriptEngine
interface.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release contains small bugfixes in JavaScriptFileTemplate and convenience methods. It is production ready.
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,
and encryption.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
An internal links bug was fixed.
VMware allows you to run ‘virtual machines’ inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended).
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
This release introduces Unity View (integrating guest applications with the host), an installer bundle for Linux hosts providing a graphical UI wizard, and accelerated 3D graphics (DirectX 9 accelerated graphics with shaders up through Shader Model 2.0) on Windows XP guests. Operating system support was expanded. Several other enhancements and performance improvements were made.
Endian Firewall is an all-in-on Linux security
distribution that turns any system into a
full-featured security appliance. It features a
stateful packet inspection firewall,
application-level proxies for various protocols
(HTTP, POP3, SMTP), anti-virus support, virus and
spam filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP),
content filtering of Web traffic, and a “hassle
free” VPN system based on OpenVPN.
BlueJ is an interactive Java development environment. It provides a unique user interface that presents a graphical display of the application classes and their relationships, and it lets users interactively create objects of any class. Once objects have been created, users can interact with them directly. This interaction mechanism allows for much greater testing and experimentation than in conventional environments. BlueJ is suited for teaching and learning OO and Java.
License: Freely Distributable
Changes:
This version contains many improvements, including support for Java ME development, support for Subversion repositories for team work, greatly improved unit test recording, and many bugfixes.
bdec allows you to write specifications for
existing binary formats in a flexible XML based
syntax, and have C decoders automatically
generated for you. It supports decoding to XML or
Python objects, as well as generating quality C
decoders.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
This release allows common entries to be given another name. It improves the readability of generated C code. It will not include unnecessary data structures in C headers. It has changed to the LGPL. There are documentation updates, various fixes in C decoders, and a fix for the MP3 specification.
TDA (Thread Dump Analyzer) is a small Swing GUI
for analyzing thread dumps generated by the Sun
Java VM. It has been tested with 1.4.2_x, 1.5.0_x,
and 1.6.0_x releases. It provides statistics,
gives information about locked monitors and
waiting threads, can diff between threads to look
for similarities, and has “long running thread”
detection.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
The tool now is available as a VisualVM plugin. It skips broken thread dumps. Custom thread categories. A new welcome screen. Small adjustments to support SAP JVM dumps. Small adjustments to support HP JVM dumps. Icons of monitors with high contention now have a red background. Multiple selection of threads. Stack line count is now also set in long running thread result. Reads heap information from Sun JDK 1.6 dumps and displays them. Thread dumps or log files can be pasted from the clipboard. Extended help (now uses javahelp). General bugfixes.
FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Bootable CD is a
bootable CD based on Debian-live that contains
a lot of tools suitable for computer forensic
investigations, including bash scripts. Its main
purpose is to create images of devices prior to
analysis, and it is used by the Belgian Federal
Computer Crime Unit.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The ability to start in non-graphical mode by passing “live 3″ as a boot parameter. An updated version of Guymager (0.3.1). Two Windows tools to copy Win32 memory (including Vista): win32dd and mantech mdd. The memory analysis tool Volatility was added. The registry analysis tool regripper was added. aeskeyfinder and rsakeyfinder were added. A better starting Web page and a better description of the tools on the CD. An updated version (0.40) of the Perl library Parse-win32Registry. Version 3.3.4 of afflib. Many other updates.
Editra is a general, extensible, multi-platform
text editor with an implementation that focuses on
creating a clean and easy-to-use interface with
features that aid in code development. Currently,
it supports syntax highlighting and variety of
other useful features for more than 50 programing
languages.
License: OSI Approved
Changes:
This version includes a wide range of new text
searching features and file grepping options. Many
supported languages received improved automatic
indentation support. A fair number of existing
bugs were also fixed.
The MiniUPnP project is a library and a daemon.
The library is aimed to enable applications to use
the capabilities of a UPnP Internet Gateway Device present on the network to forward ports. The daemon adds the UPnP Internet Gateway Device functionality to a NAT gateway running
OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD/Solaris with PF/IPF or Linux 2.4.x/2.6.x with netfilter. One of its most
interesting features is to enforce some
permissions to allow or deny redirections,
bringing some security to UPnP. Newer versions also support the NAT-PMP protocol from Apple.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
Compatibility with ipf under FreeBSD was improved.
You can now run MiniUPnPd and MediaTomb on the
same computer. The documentation was updated.
MiniUPnPc installation was fixed. MiniSSDPd is now
used (optionally) by both the client and the
server software.
AstroCam is an C-based stepper motor control system including both a PHP and a Perl based Web interface. You can use it for controlling webcams over the Internet or an intranet, or for everything else you could want to do with a stepper motor.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release includes a new console based script
that helps you check if your installation works.
Some tiny documentation updates were made. The
install script now can find default locations for
htdocs.
VMware allows you to run ‘virtual machines’ inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended).
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
This major release introduces VI Web Access,
VMware remote console, USB 2.0 device support,
increased RAM support (8GB instead of 3.6GB per
virtual machine), improved 64-bit guest support,
native 64-bit host support on Linux, quiesced
backups of virtual machines, a VMCI Sockets
interface, and hot add and remove for SCSI hard
disks.
twigles writes with news of a new proposed bill that seeks to curtail DHS’s power to search and seize laptops at the border without suspicion of wrongdoing. Here is Sen. Feingold’s press release on the bill. The new bill has more privacy-protecting safeguards than the previous one, which we discussed last month. “The Travelers Privacy Protection Act, a bill written by US Senators Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., would allow border agents to search electronic devices only if they had reasonable suspicions of wrongdoing. In addition, the legislation would limit the length of time that a device could be out of its owner’s possession to 24 hours, after which the search becomes a seizure, requiring probable cause.”
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Engineered from the ground-up with specific regard
to security, EnGarde Secure Linux incorporates
intrusion alert capabilities, a complete suite of
e- business applications using AllCommerce,
improved authentication and access control, strong
cryptography, and complete SSL secure Web-based
administration capabilities. EnGarde protects
against many forms of attack, not just a
particular form of vulnerability. It is also not
just a repackaged version of another distribution
that claims to be secure. EnGarde is a collection
of best-of-breed applications from many sources
tuned to provide exactly what is necessary to
maintain a secure Internet presence. Featuring the
Linux Intrusion Detection System integrated into
its design, as well as Web-manageable Tripwire,
tools from many Open Source security projects
including Openwall, snort network intrusion
detection system, and extensive host security
improvements, EnGarde Secure Linux strives to be
the most secure, yet functional, Linux
distribution to date.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes many updated packages and
bugfixes and some feature enhancements to Guardian
Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy.
APIviz is a JavaDoc doclet which extends the Java
standard doclet. It generates comprehensive
UML-like class and package diagrams for quick
understanding of the overall API structure.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
A problem in the published Maven pom.xml file has
been fixed.
The Midgard Components Framework (also called
MidCOM) is an advanced component architecture
which extends the Midgard Web content management framework. It provides mechanisms for building a Web site using components without much need for writing code to glue all this together. The administration site gets built automatically by using those components. Goodies like a caching engine and subrequests make site building even easier.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This version is meant to ease transition from Web
services using the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to
the new Midgard2 architecture. Because of this,
this release provides both API versions. This
means that it can be used to run both Midgard 1
applications, like version 2.9 of the MidCOM
component framework, and Midgard2 applications,
like MidCOM3.
LordsAWar! is a turn-based strategy game where up
to 8 players strive for control of as many cities
as possible. New armies can be produced in cities
to conquer nearby cities to gain more income to
make more armies to take more cities. You can also
send a hero to a temple to get a quest or maybe
search a nearby ruin instead.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Default terrain artwork based on Wesnoth artwork
was added. Z-axis zooming on the game map was
added. Random map generation was improved. Network
play was improved (but is still buggy) and some
crashing bugs were fixed. Many game behavior bugs
were fixed.
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.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Major bugfixes were made in the Windows installer.
Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on Web, Extranet,
and Intranet services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic applications
to power eBusiness and Information Management processes. Writing applications
and functionalities for the platform is done using the easy-to-learn PHP
scripting language. All interfacing with the system is done via a regular Web
browser, and no special tools are needed for developers or content authors.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This version is meant to ease transition from Web
services using the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to
the new Midgard2 architecture. Because of this,
this release provides both API versions. This
means that it can be used to run both Midgard 1
applications, like the version 2.9 of the MidCOM
component framework, and Midgard2 applications,
like MidCOM3.
Blue is a unique multi-purpose dynamic programming
language. The minimalistic syntax is intuitive,
easy to learn, and adapts to a broad range of
programming styles and applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a shell stream for easily
communicating with the command interpreter. The
documentation for streams is now up to date. The
source contains the start of a new blue parser
using the Lemon parser generator.
Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
The ability to compile client code with namespace
suppression was (re)assured. Also, a minor
compilation bug with MFC compilation (when
pantheios/pantheios.hpp is the first include in
the compilation unit) was addressed.
TRIP is a general computer algebra system
dedicated to celestial mechanics. It includes a
numerical kernel and has interfaces to gnuplot and
xmgrace. Computations can be performed with
double, quadruple, or multi-precision. Users can
dynamically load external libraries written in C,
C++, or Fortran.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
A SCSCP-compliant server and client component were
introduced to communicate with other computer
algebra systems. Comparison of strings is
supported and a global variable was added to
disable warning messages. Error messages on a
valid code were corrected. Syntax coloring was
added for the editors vim and PSPad. The msg
command now works with the non-default numerical
mode.
ASUS G50 OLED is a daemon that controls the ASUS
G50/G70 OLED to display system monitoring
statistics such as load, CPU usage, battery level,
total network traffic, CPU core operating
frequency, and the current time and date. The
package includes ACPI event handlers that stop
writing to the display when the lid is closed and
stop or start the daemon by one of the blue
buttons.
LaTeX::Table is a Perl module that provides
functionality for an intuitive generation of LaTeX
tables. It ships with some predefined, good-looking table styles. This module supports multi-page tables via the xtab LaTeX package. For publication quality tables, it utilizes the booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx package for nicer fixed-width tables. Furthermore, it supports
the colortbl package for colored tables optimized for presentations.
