july 4 2009
schily 2009-07-06
schily is a set of tools written or managed by J?rg Schilling. more>>
Enhancements:
- Smake is allowed to use /bin/bosh instead of bash on Linux or ksh on HP-UX.
- Some small problems were fixed in smake.
- Cdrtools was upgraded to 2.01.01a53.
- Some extensions were made as a first step to allow compilation on the ATARI ST with MINT.
SureMoKu 2009-05-28
SureMoKu 2009-05-28 is another compact yet useful SMK analysis tool. It is actually a software used for analysing positions in renju / gomoku games more>>
Requirements:
- Python
ZIG 2.0.0
ZIG is a client-server game networking engine. more>>
From the standpoint of ZIG, the graphics renderer, the sound engine and the input handler are all extensions you must provide. You will be able to plug your Allegro, SDL, DirectX, OpenGL etc. stuff into ZIG with ease. ZIG is a cross-platform C/C++ library which depends only on HawkNL versions 1.7 beta 1 or later.
Enhancements:
- This release brings about two years of bugfixes and enhancements, plus documentation rewritten from scratch.
- It includes SCTP-like transport of multiple message streams through a single ZIG client-server connection.
- Each stream enforces a message ordering that is independent of other streams.
- The ZIG streams also allow you to control bandwidth use (if you want to) and to mix reliable and unreliable messages on the same stream.
Jikes RVM 2.9.1
Jikes RVM is a virtual machine and runtime environment for Java. more>>
You may wonder why the world needs another Java compiler, considering that Sun provides javac free with its SDK. Jikes has five advantages that make it a valuable contribution to the Java community: [OSI Certified Logo]
* Open source. Jikes is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
* Strictly Java compatible. Jikes strives to adhere to both The Java Language Specification and The Java Virtual Machine Specification as tightly as possible, and does not support subsets, supersets, or other variations of the language. The FAQ describes some of the side effects of this strict language conformance.
* High performance. Jikes is a high performance compiler, making it ideal for use with larger projects.
* Dependency analysis. Jikes performs a dependency analysis on your code that provides two very useful features: Incremental builds and makefile generation.
* Constructive Assistance. Jikes strives to help the programmer write better code in two key ways. Jikes has always strived to provide clear error and warning text to assist the programmer in understanding problems, and now with release 1.19 Jikes helps point out common programming mistakes as documented in Effective Java.
Abridged from a FAQ entry which was adapted from some material by Lou Grinzo for an article he wrote.
The fact that Jikes is a high-performance, highly compatible Java compiler that can be used on almost any computing platform makes it an interesting program and worth investigating for almost any Java programmer. But Jikes is also notable because it lies at the center of two events: the adoption of open source philosophy and practice by large corporations, and the continued growth of Java for Linux.
Its worth pointing out that Jikes is not, and is not intended to be, a complete development environment -- it is simply a command line compiler. It should not be considered a replacement for more complete tools, such as Source Navigator or IBMs VisualAge for Java which provide sophisticated graphical IDEs (Integrated Development Environments).
The Jikes compiler was released in binary form in April 1997 on the IBM alphaWorks site. Jikes for Linux was released on 15 July 1998. The response was overwhelming -- Jikes had more downloads in the three months after the announcement than in the fifteen months before the announcement.
Around the end of March 2002, IBM opened a fledgling community hosting location attached to their developerWorks site with Jikes as a founding member. Approximately 3 years later this server was decommissioned and the most active projects migrated into SourceForge.net hosting options. During those three years Jikes was the #1 most popular project every month, often by a large margin. We approached nearly 250,000 downloads while residing at dw/oss, and had been consistently tallying triple digit daily downloads.
Release of Jikes for Linux was soon followed by requests to open up the source. Many notes and comments from users suggested this would be a good idea. The source was released under a liberal license in December 1998 to make a very visible demonstration of IBMs commitment to open standards and to Java Technology, to make Jikes more reliable and accessible, to encourage more widespread use of Java Technology, to encourage standardization of Java Technology, and to gain some experience actually running an open source project. This marked the start of one of IBMs first efforts in the open source arena.
The original alphaWorks version of Jikes was written by Philippe Charles and Dave Shields of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. For awhile after the release of the source they continued to work on the compiler as contributors; however, shortly after the project migrated to developerWorks Open Source Server they were officially moved off onto other projects within IBM. Today there are no IBMers who work on Jikes as part of their job description. Jikes survives today soley based on the free time contributions of members of the open source community.
The source code is available under IBMs Public License, which has been approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) as a fully certified open source license. The project provides access to the complete CVS development tree, which includes not only Jikes, but also the source for the Jacks Test Suite and the Jikes Parser Generator used to build Jikes. Jikes is included in many Open Source Operating Systems. The Jacks Test Suite is a replacement for the Jikestst package.
FTwall 2.02
FTwall is short for Fast Track traffic Firewall, a P2P traffic filtering script, for Kazaa blocking. more>>
Ftwall-2 is an updated version of the original ftwall-1 software which adds new P2p protocols to the set it can control.
Ftwall-2 is an add-on for linux firewalls that allows the control of "Fast Track" peer-to-peer traffic (such as is used by "Kazaa" and its derivatives), WinMX and others using the OpenNAP protocol.
It is designed to block network traffic from P2P client applications running in the "home" (or "green") network from making access to any peers on the public internet. It is designed primarily for use in networks where the security reigme allows "open access" for outbound connections and "tightly limited" access for inbound ones. Ftwall-2 can be used in networks like this to prevent outbound P2P access from the supported protocols, hence restricting illegal file downloads and uploads.
A Fast track "home network" client that establishes an "outbound" connection is (worryingly) immediately available to accept inbound connections through the established TCP/IP socket - even if the gateway firewall blocks all in-bound connections via "normal" TCP/IP and UDP mechanisms. This is a kind of limited "tunnelling" and gives rise to a number of concerns. Other P2P applications and protocols present similar security challenges. Ftwall solves this (and other) problems for the protocols it understands.
Version 1 of ftwall controlled the Fast Track protocol only (Kazaa et al).
Version 2 of ftwall (the version discussed on this page) adds logic to allow blocking of traffic from WinMX and OpenNap clients using a mechanism based on DNS name wildcards. One simple example is the control of WinMXs native protocol which can be blocked by preventing access to IP addresses resolved from any domain name that ends "winmx.com". OpenNAP is similarly controlled using DNS wildcards to "train" ftwall. See the man page (etc) for these new features by following the links at the bottom of the page.
FTwall-2 runs on Linux-based firewalls using kernel 2.4 (tested with 2.4.20) or later and iptables (test with version 1.2.6). This combination of version numbers is the current set employed by RedHat 8.0 - which is the system on which the software has been developed. The software has also been tested briefly on RedHat 9 and Fedora - but I am awaiting more in-depth news of these and other Linux distributions.
FTwall-2 runs well on the "ipcop" firewall, version 1.3.0 (GPL) with the QUEUE target and string match modules added manually. I believe that it will similarly run on Smoothwall 2 (GPL) although I have not tested this. It will NOT run on Smoothwall 1.0 since this is an "ipchains" based firewall, not an "iptables" one.
FTwall-2 has been tested with the following P2P client applications:
Kazaa 2.1.1, 2.5-beta2, 2.5.1
Kazaa Lite 2.0.2, K++ 2.4.3
iMesh 4.1 build 132, 4.2 build 138
Grokster 1.7
WinMX 3.31
Version restrictions:
- Ftwall requires Linux kernel version 2.4, equipped with "iptables" and the "QUEUE" target. The "ip_string" match module of iptables is desirable, but not required.
- Ftwall works with the "current" version of the Fast track, WinMX and OpenNAP network protocols at the time of writing (July 2004). It is possible that it will need to be re-worked if the protocols are changed in future.
- Ftwall does not block the "SOCKS PROXY" connection option of FastTrack. For a complete lock-down, the firewall must block this style of traffic.
Puppy Linux 4.2.1
Puppy Linux provides you with a perfect and very useful evolutionary operating system which is based on GNU Linux. more>>
Puppy Linux 4.2.1 provides you with a perfect and very useful evolutionary operating system which is based on GNU Linux. Whats different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full featured. Puppy Linux can boot into a 64MB ramdisk, and that's it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in its entirety loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly.
Major Features:
- Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device (flash-Puppy), CDROM (live-Puppy), Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk (zippy-Puppy), floppy disks (floppy-Puppy), internal hard drive (hard-Puppy).
- Puppy occupies about 50-60M on my USB Flash drive, CDROM, or whatever is the storage media.
- When Puppy boots, everything uncompressed into a RAM area that we call a "ramdisk". The live-CD will bootup on systems with only 32M RAM, but the more RAM you have the more Puppy is able to keep files permanently in ramdisk hence more speed. A PC with 128M RAM is the recommended minimum.
- Note that Puppy will automatically use a swap partition if it exists. When booting from a USB Flash device, Puppy tries to load all the Flash files into physical RAM, but if there is not enough RAM then Puppy is able to copy the excess to a swap partition if it exists. This eliminates writes to the Flash memory during a session, greatly extending its life span.
- You may need to have a swap partition to run Firefox or Mozilla on PCs with less than 64M RAM. Certainly, for a PC with only 32M RAM, a swap partition is necessary to run most of the large GUI applications.
Enhancements:
- CUPS-1.3.10 regressed from 1.4b2 to resolve ongoing issues with CUPS printing.
- Fixed printing from Geany, Leafpad and Gnumeric using CUPS-1.3.10
- Abiword-2.6.3 with 2.6.6 plugins has been patched for improved .doc & .docx support (Liberation ttf fonts required for some documents)
- Pwidgets updated to 2.0.8
- Pcrypt updated to 17 May 2009 release and now requires Ccrypt to function. Bcrypt has been dropped in consequence.
- Ccrypt-1.7 added as dependency for Pcrypt
- MIME-types updated in Rox-2.6.1
- Patches for gtk+ Xinput and b43 broadcom network driver
- Pmusic updated to 0.6.4
- Pschedule updated to 0.7
- Plus previously issued patches for nbtscan, mountcifs, jwm-tray, xsane, network wizard (now at April 4 release), mtpaint-snapshot, gtk+2.12.1-Xinput-fix and pcp (Puppy control panel).
PieSpy 0.4.0
PieSpy is an IRC bot that monitors a set of IRC channels. more>>
PieSpy has also been used to visualize Shakespearean social networks.This page got slashdotted on 11 March 2004, with the site getting 250,000 hits per hour. Thanks to Notnet for making sure it all stayed alive!
PieSpy was presented at the Information Visualization conference (IV04) in July 2004. Read the full paper online. It has also appeared in Computer Weekly, ct magazine, and I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Kent.
Enhancements:
- Now tracks nickname changes. Generates images five times faster. Removes formatting and colors from messages. The source code has been refactored to make it easy to add new InferenceHeuristics, which are used to work out who is talking to whom - if you create any good ones, let me know! The config file lets you apply different weightings to each InferenceHeuristic.
DeuTex 4.4.0
DeuTex is a wad composer for Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife. more>>
Conversely, when it reads files for inclusion in pwads, it does the necessary conversions (for example, from PPM to Doom picture format).If you like to do wad hacking beyond level editing, DeuTex is a must. In addition, DeuTex has functions such as merging wads, etc. I use it all the time.
Main features:
- Supported platforms
- Unix and DOS. Should not be difficult to port to other platforms.
- Supported iwads
- Doom, Doom II, Ultimate Doom, Doom alpha 0.4 and 0.5, Doom press release pre-beta, Heretic, Hexen, Strife.
- Supported file formats
- .au, .voc, .wav, .bmp, .gif (will go away), .ppm.
Enhancements:
- default transparent colour is (0, 47, 47) instead of (0, 255, 255),
- flats are put between FF_START and F_END,
- Doom alpha 0.4 and Doom alpha 0.5 are supported,
- Doom press release pre-beta is supported,
- Hexen is supported,
- Strife is supported,
- new command -usedidx,
- on Unix (especially Linux), builds much more smoothly,
- on DOS and Windows, builds with DJGPP and Cygwin,
- source available and libre license (GPL + LGPL + Pbmplus),
- GIF is deprecated,
- many bug fixes and small improvements.
Lyricue 1.9.9
Lyricue is used to edit/display song lyrics on a second screen/projector for use at singing events such as church services. more>>
You should use this tool because:
- With Lyricue you are not restricted to setting everything up before the event as you can add, remove and change songs on the fly.
- You can edit a song while it is up on the screen and quickly show your changes (good for when you notice a misspelling or the singers decide to change the words on you).
- You can even type up notes directly to the screen or quickly display a bible verse at an instants notice.
Major Features:
- Web interface available - Precue
- OpenGL accelerated server using Clutter
- Video backgrounds
- Display over live video
- Runs in English, German, French, Dutch or Swedish
- Networkable (ie run interface and server on different machines)
- User access controls
- Multiple Playlists
- Copyright info for songs
- Automatic Page advance
- Duplicate/Delete individual pages in playlist
- Preferences Dialog
- Re-orderable playlist
- Playlist entries to change background
- Can run at configurable resolution
- User-specific configuration/images (or can all refer to global one)
- All songs kept in a database and so screens are dynamically generated, allowing you to easily change the backdrop, font etc without having to change all the songs
- Can automatically create screens for bible verses (KJV included since there are licensing issues with NIV)
- Quick searching for songs
- Playlist shown as collapsible tree so easy to find wanted page
- Can use any image as backdrop (stored in database)
- Can add images to playlist (stored in database)
- Add/Edit/Remove Songs (even while they are being displayed)
- Honourize a song (change 'jesus' to 'Jesus' etc)
- Preview a song as you enter it
- Drag'n'Drop playlist adding
- Searching by song name or the lyrics themselves
- Change Font/Colours of server
- Graphical error reporting
- Spellchecking
Enhancements: 9/6/2009
- New clutter-based server (allows OpenGL accelerated transitions)
- Major UI re-working
- Presentation import
- Video display
- Webcam display
- Work better with non-english bibles
- Background transitions
- Songbeamer file import
- Gtk2-Perl 1.020 or later
- MySQL 4.0.12 or later
- Perl 5.8.0 or later
AKFQuiz 4.4.0
AKFQuiz project lets you easily make your own quiz games, learning exercises or psychotests. more>>
A CGI-variant, akfquiz.cgi can be installed on a Web server to offer exercises via Internet or a local network.
Or you can use mkquiz, which generates an HTML file for to use with JavaScript. Those can then be published using any deliberate web-space provider.
JClaim 4.4.37
JClaim is an instant message client, tools, and development framework. more>>
The framework can be used for designing your own tools. The UI includes spell checking and a lot more. A Web interface is included for remote access.
Canadian Payroll Apr_2009-00
Canadian Payroll is a helpful tool for calculating Canadian payroll taxes. more>> Canadian Payroll Apr_2009-00 is a helpful tool for calculating Canadian payroll taxes. CdnPayroll is a collection of python functions which calculates Canadian payroll tax withholdings based on the most recent federal publication. Canadian Payroll is mostly for use by developers, but others use it with great success too.
Cdn Payroll is intended to be used primarily from another program or graphical user interface. This is because the numerous command line options necessary to fully implement the federal (and now provincial) tables become tedious very quickly.
Major Features:
- Federal taxes for all of Canada
- TONI provincial tables
- Several output options
- Holiday Pay
- Advances
- Ability to save file
- Spreadsheet output
- Cross platform command line
- Graphical Interface (Linux)
- New web interface included
- Distributed free under the GPL
Enhancements: Changes were made for the 88th edition of Payroll Deductions Formulas for Computer Programs for Canada (t4127-09e.pdf), which is effective January 01, 2009.
PHP Exif Library 0.9.1
PHP Exif Library (PEL) lets you manipulating Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) data. more>>
Using PEL, one can fully modify the Exif data, meaning that it can be both read and written. PEL is written completely in PHP and depends on nothing except a standard installation of PHP, version 5, which was released on July 13th 2004.
Main features:
- Reads and parses both JPEG and TIFF images.
- Supports reading and writing all Exif tags.
- Supports internationalisation.
- Extensible object-oriented design. PEL utilizes the new features in PHP 5.
- Tested with SimpleTest (11 camera models tested, plus core tests).
- Fully documented with PhpDocumentor, see the online API documentation.
Sman 0.99
Sman is the Searcher for Man pages. more>>
- Supports complex natural language text searches such as "(linux and kernel) or (mach and microkernel)"
- Shows results in a ranked order, and optionally an extract (using -e) of the manpage showing the searched text highlighted
- Allows for searches by manpage section, title, body, or filename (use metaname=searchword)
- Indexes the complete contents of the man page, not just the title and description
- Uses a prebuilt index to perform fast searches
- Performs stemming so that a search for "searches" will match a document with the word "searching"
MM3-WebAssistant Private 2009
Archives visited web pages with your browser to be used on- and offline. Offline each page is available with its original URL. There is no difference between surfing in the internet or archive. You can even use your bookmarks offline. Efficient use of the archive by marking and highlighting words. This proxy offline browser allows mobile users to access internet information when they dont have internet access. An ideal addition to every browser! more>>
MM3-WebAssistant Private - The offline browser is a personal proxy server sitting behind your regular browser (Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera - whatever!), silently and speedily handling all the network traffic. Unlike most offline browsers with this concept, you dont have to specifically tell WebAssistant to capture a website - it remembers everything you see, automatically adding new pages to the cache. WebAssistant updates your cached pages (in the background) so youve always got the latest version to hand. Theres no difference between surfing the web and surfing your archive; you can even use your bookmarks or search your pages offline when you dont have a network connection.
Your Benefits:
Work offline (train, plane, beach - wherever you like) without worrying that you have the info you need. Reduces the pressure of knowing what to save, and the necessity for repeating browsing sessions looking for something that was missed.
Incorporate the web into presentations or talks where you dont have internet access. You can sure youll always have the page you need with WebAssistant.
Mobile users have the flexibility of accessing information from the web without having to worry about expensive access points. Shun overpriced wifi access ports - or at least only pay for what you really need.
Important Features:
Automatically archive all pages visited.
Accelerates in the web online browsing or updates the archive.
No difference between on- and offline browsing.
Links to resources of cache archives are marked for quick navigation.
Compare HTML pages from internet and archive. The changes are highlighted.
Browse and interactive navigation in the original hierarchy of downloaded pages.
Burn a site (or many sites) to CD for backup or archive.
Supports the protocols HTTP and FTP.
Supplied with a detailed manual, a simple and completely comprehensive installation and deinstallation.
The reader is an ideal addition to every browser!
Enhancements:
Version 2008
System Requirements:Java of version 1.4 or higher<<less