Tuesday, August 1, 2000

links freshmeat 2007

AjaxStub 0.3.0
by Carl J. Nobile - Sat, Aug 4th 2007 11:37 PDT

About: The AjaxStub package provides a Python API for writing Web pages that include JavaScript stubs for Python functions or methods. The data returned from the server can be embedded in either JSON or XML.


2.26.07

About: Kabeja is a Java library for parsing CAD data (i.e. Autodesk's DXF format) and converting to SVG (dxf2svg). You can use Kabeja from the command line or embed it into your application. It includes a plain DXF2SVGViewer and integration into the Cocoon XML Web development framework and the Inkscape SVG editor.


2.21.07

About: KnowledgeTree is a powerful Web-based document management system built on the popular LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. It is a leading PHP-based commercial document management software project. KnowledgeTree is used by Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state governments, and educational and scientific institutions around the world.

About: Computer Breaker is a network testing tool that allows networking administrators to test if a computer is vulnerable to malicious attacks. Using the Nessus scanner, computer-breaker scans the remote host and automatically exploits its vulnerabilities.


About: Ravenous is full-featured Web server written in Java. It allows you to write dynamic pages in Java without the need to read stacks of books before you get started, while still providing the features needed to create complex, high performance sites once you get more development experience.



About: The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat and mpstat, commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats (XML, database-friendly, etc.). The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The information collected by sar can be saved in a file in a binary format for future inspection. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.

About: Google::Adwords is a collection of Perl modules that provides an easy-to-use object oriented interface to the Google Adwords SOAP API. You don’t need to understand SOAP or Web services to use it.

About: MySpeed measures download and upload connection speeds by timing actual data transfers between your server and end-users. Server-side bandwidth test reports provide visibility to the consistency of bandwidth delivery, key information for managing VoIP, Web application, and help desk environments. Max pause, the longest pause recorded during the data download, and round trip time are also reported. The professional version adds a server-side repository which logs the speed test results, session ID tracking, and a continuous testing option for further analysis.



2.19.07

About: xSite generates static XHTML and CSS Web albums from image directories, making use of JPEG/EXIF comments in the images instead of external databases. It is not a photo management tool by itself, so must use something else for tagging, editing, and organizing your images. The project's goals are simplicity, ease of use, and standards compliance in the output.

About: YaHP is a Java library that allows you to convert an HTML document into a PDF document.


About: cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. Silence and ID3 tag searching are also possible. For playback it uses mpg123. The program works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB. There is also a simple frontend for it, called xcutmp3.

About: audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV, and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV, and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer, wvunpack, and lame to work. id3lib, metaflac, and vorbis-tools are optional, but needed for full functionality.




2.15.07

About: Contelligent is a J2EE content management system that is targeted at developers and integrators. It provides an advanced package mechanism for development and deployment of Contelligent projects and extensions. Contelligent implements a component based approach that allows reuse of existing content, layout, and application logic in various contexts and for new unplanned needs.

About: oXygen is an XML editor that supports any XML document, and works with XML Schemas, DTDs, Relax NG schemas, and NRL Schemas. It has powerful transformation support that allows you to edit XSLT and XSL-FO documents and to obtain documents in the desired output format (such as HTML, PS, or PDF) with just one click. It also includes a complete Subversion client, support for flattening XML Schemata, an XML Schema instance generator, integration with the X-Hive/DB, MarkLogic and TigerLogic XML databases, editing actions on the diagram, and a rename refactoring action.



2.13.07

About: cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. Silence and ID3 tag searching are also possible. For playback it uses mpg123. The program works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB. There is also a simple frontend for it, called xcutmp3.


About: audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV, and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV, and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer, wvunpack, and lame to work. id3lib, metaflac, and vorbis-tools are optional, but needed for full functionality.


2.9.07
About: Trinity Rescue Kit is a small CD-ROM/USB disk/PXE-based Linux distribution that targets repairing dead systems, or at least rescuing important data. It has full-blown network capabilities, including an ssh server and a Samba server. It has many custom-built scripts, full NTFS read-write capabilities through ntfs-3g and captive, and four virus scanners.


2.8.07

About: Webminstats is a Webmin module designed to store system information in an rrdtool database and to display historic (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and custom) graphs. It is modular in design, so as to be able to log everything from CPU usage to email box size.
System :: Monitoring


2.1.07

About: HTMLManager enables you to build and mantain a complex site without PHP, mod_perl, mod_python, CGI, or any other type of server-side scripting. It allows you to build your site on your own machine and then upload the generated files to your Web server. You can use templates, add third-party modules, use site-global variables, and much more.
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

1.30.07

About: curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, and FILE, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, port numbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings to libcurl for over 30 languages and environments.


1.29.07

About: strongSwan is a complete IPsec and IKEv1 implementation for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It interoperates with most other IPsec-based VPN products. It is a descendant of the discontinued FreeS/WAN project. The focus of the strongSwan project is on strong authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and optional secure storage of private keys on smartcards through a standardized PKCS#11 interface. A unique feature is the use of X.509 attribute certificates to implement advanced access control schemes based on group memberships.

About: Network Tracker builds a table which records which user is connected on which port of a switch by scanning SNMP-enabled devices. It keeps the inventory of these devices up-to-date by scanning the network regularly. Devices are also checked with ping and SNMP, and the user is informed by email when any of the devices is not alive.

About: ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications. Native high-performance ZABBIX agents allow monitoring of performance and availability data of all operating systems.


About: PHP Date Picker Class will automatically generate the required HTML and JavaScript code that will make a pop-up window appear to let the user choose a date from a calendar. The selected date will be passed to a user-specified control from the calling page. Every aspect is customizable by modifying a template and a related CSS file. The format in which the date is returned, the default date and time period, and the first day of the week can be selected.


1.27.07
About: Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented towards system rescue, specifically for repairing the booting process. Super Grub Disk is simply a Grub Disk with a lot of useful menus. It can activate partitions, boot partitions, boot MBRs, boot your former OS (Linux or another one) by loading menu.lst from your hard disk, automatically restore Grub on your MBR, swap hard disks in the BIOS, and boot from any available disk device. It has multi-language support, and allows you to change the keyboard layout of your shell.


1.27.07

About: chaostables is a package with iptables/netfilter targets that will foil network scanners. Documentation on how it works and how to reimplement it in userspace are also provided. Special features include recognition of all nmap scan types including -sS SYN Scan, proactive slowdown of TCP FNX and UDP (50000+%), and providing back fake nondeterministic information.

About: htmlobserver is a program that downloads a Web page at regular intervals, and searches it for regular expressions. All HTML tags are removed, and the remaining text is searched for regular expressions, which can be defined in a list. Matching rows are displayed in a panel, and different alarms may be triggered. The alarms are repeated when the result set changes.
1.26.07

About: Sitemap Creator uses the standard SiteMaps protocol to create a sitemap.xml.gz file for your Sitemap and pings Google, Yahoo!, and MSN to come crawl it. It tracks the bots and sends an email on every scan of your Sitemap, giving a full report of the search engine response.

About: clive extracts videos from the YouTube and Google Video Web sites. It can be used together with ffmpeg to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (avi, mpeg, flv).



1.25.07

About: ike-scan discovers IPsec VPN servers, and can fingerprint them using UDP backoff and Vendor ID fingerprinting techniques. It supports IKE Main Mode and Aggressive Mode. ike-scan allows flexible specification of the outgoing IKE packet, and decodes the response packets. It also supports pre-shared key cracking for IKE aggressive mode with pre-shared key authentication.

About: Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML, PDF, and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts. Moreover, it is able to summarize other logs like CheckPoint Fw-1 (NG and 4.1), Netfilter, IPFilter, Packet Filter, CISCO PIX, and Lucent BRICK in a similar way.


About: ConceptDraw NetDiagrammer has been developed for professional computer network diagramming, LAN scanning and visualization, preparation of network documentation, and office/building/home network planning. It is intended for network administrators, IT directors, network designers and engineers, and for everyone who finds detailed network documentation, diagramming, and schematics critical. It includes large collections of task-specific shapes of network objects, as well as templates, samples, and easy-to-use wizards. It also allows drawing all types of UML diagrams, floor plans and office layout drawings, flowcharts and dataflow diagrams, workflows, and more.


About: L7-filter is a packet classifier for Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer (OSI layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, Kazaa, etc., regardless of ports. It complements existing matches that classify based on port numbers, packet length, TOS bits, and so on. Combined with Linux QoS, it allows for full layer 7 packet shaping.


1.21.07

About: recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio and video data from a Linux desktop session, producing an Ogg-encapsulated Theora-Vorbis file. The main goal is to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed.



1.20.07

About: aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.).

1.19.07

About:
PHP ZIP Code Locator is a MySQL ZIP code database with a PHP locator. It integrates with existing location tables to provide locater functionality on any table that contains a 5-digit ZIP code column. There is no need to dump, reformat, and reload existing location data into a vendor-provided location table.

1.19.07

About: Reverse Utils::TCP-over-HTTP/CGI is useful for connecting to hosts which are reachable by a Webserver you have access to, but not reachable by you. It allows you to use any host you have Web and CGI access to as a proxy for TCP connections.

1.18.07


About: Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script is a secure stateful firewall for both single and multi-homed machines. It supports NAT and SNAT, port forwarding, ADSL ethernet modems with both static and dynamically assigned IPs, MAC address filtering, stealth port scan detection, DMZ and DMZ-2-LAN forwarding, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding, and extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding. It has plugin support to add extra features (like SSH Brute Force protection and (Racoon) IPSEC support). It is easy to configure and highly customizable. A filter script that makes your firewall log more readable is also included.


1.14.07
About: Namistai is an interface to access SMB shares via HTTP, allowing the user to view them using a Web browser. It works as a stand-alone daemon, and does not depend on a Web server.



1.13.07
About:
My Freshmeat Subscriptions are a collection of scripts that let you manage your Freshmeat subscriptions. Currently, it only supports saving your subscriptions' name and URL, and a full XML record for each subscription by means of helper scripts. It is quite simple, yet useful for those who would like to share their freshmeat choices with the world, or whatever.

1.10.07

About: MySQL High Availability clustering is a set of scripts and programs that provide a high availability database cluster using MySQL replication. It is transparent to client applications, as the cluster uses a shared logical IP to provide the service.


1.9.07

About:
VisualRoute combines the tools traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and whois into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections, reporting quick and essential data points for finding connectivity problems. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a global map. The domain registration and network provider contact information are reported for each hop of a network route for quick problem reporting. Several new advanced edition options include reverse tracing to initiate a connection test from a remote desktop or data center, port testing, Internet application testing, and TCP traceroutes.

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ExifTagger is a graphical application for editing select EXIF tags in digital photos. Images are previewed, and Comment and Location EXIF tags can be modified.

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MindTerm is a complete ssh-client in pure Java. It can be used either as a standalone Java application or as a Java applet. Three packages of importance are provided (terminal, ssh, and security). The terminal package is a rather complete vt102/xterm-terminal, and the ssh-package contains the ssh- protocol and also "drop-in" socket replacements to use ssh-tunnels transparently from a Java application/applet. It also contains functionality to realize a ssh-server. Finally, the security package contains RSA, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, IDEA, and RC4 ciphers.

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wpa-buddy is a tool to decrypt WPA-PSK protected traffic. It can work in real-time (sniffing packets from a network interface) or in batch mode (reading packets from a capture file). It also produces nice output telling you what's going on. wpa-buddy currently supports WPA and WPA2 (this last only in the unstable version).



1.4.07

PMCam is a program that allows you to set up a webcam on a remote site through FTP and perl. It uses qcam to grab the image, mogrify to do the conversion to JPEG, and Net::FTP in perl to FTP the files to the server. The program's RC file should be configurable, though to allow any camera or converison programs.


1.2.07

About:
csvdiff is a simple script for comparing two files of comma-separated values with each other. In contrast to standard diff, it will show the number of the record where the difference occurs, the column number, and (if provided) the fieldname which is different. The separator can be set to any value you want, not just a comma. It also provides support for multiple column keys, the ability to ignore case and trim leading/tailing spaces, and the ability to ignore selected columns such as timestamps.

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NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work fluently even across slow links like modems. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the Internet.

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Endian Firewall is a "turn-key" 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.



1.1.07

About:
wrt54g-linux is a mini-distribution for the Linksys wrt54g 802.11b/g access point and router. It includes basic tools such as sh, syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, find, nfs modules, etc. The installation script runs in about 20 seconds and installs strictly to the RAM disk. If you mess anything up, simply reset the box. After installing the distribution you'll be able to telnet in, add Web pages, change iptable rules, change routing, configure snort, etc.

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ncc is a C source code analyzer which generates program flow and variable usage information. Using it should be as easy as changing CC=gcc to CC=ncc in makefiles, and effort has been made to support most common gcc extensions. ncc has been tested with the sources of the Linux kernel, gtk, gcc, gdb, bind, mpg123, ncftp, and many other famous projects.

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Universal Password Manager (UPM) allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs, etc. in an encrypted database protected by one master password. Its three strongest features are simplicity (it provides a small number of very strong features with no clutter), the ability to run cross-platform, and database sharing. Rather than having many separate databases (home, work, etc.), database sharing allows you store your database at a remote location (password protected HTTP URL, for example) and then have UPM automatically keep your local database in sync with the remote database.

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oSync provides a simple and secure way to synchronize bookmarks between computers. oSync can also backup your bookmarks or publish them as HTML and clean up bloated bookmark files. The synchronization can be completely automated and is aimed to be as transparent as possible for the user.


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