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DevelopmentCaller ID on your computer with NCIDNCID, the Network Caller ID package, is a cross-platform system that provides telephone Caller ID information to networked computers:
NCID is Caller ID distributed over a network to a vari[e]ty of devices and computers. It consists of a Caller ID server that uses a modem to monitor a telephone line for Caller ID information, and various clients that obtain the information from the server and process it, either by displaying it, speaking it, or emailing it.
Version 0.60 of NCID and version 0.9.10 of NCIDpop, the pop-up client for Mac OS X and Windows, were released this week. "NCID release 0.60 adds support for slow responding modems, the NetCallerID standalone device, and for Distinctive Ring. The server configuration file has changed and aliases were moved to a separate alias file. Configuration files were added for the client, log file rotation, and for the various support scripts. There was also some code improvements and bug fixes."
System Applications Database Software It's PostgreSQL Beta Time AgainThe first beta version of PostgreSQL 8.1 is now available for download. Version 8.1 contains several new features that would benefit from extensive testing. Click below to see more about the new features, and where to send your bug reports.
PostgreSQL Weekly NewsThe August 27, 2005 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL information and resources.
Libraries Cairo 1.0 releasedVersion 1.0 of the Cairo SVG library has been released. "While this release does mark the culmination of months or years of work by many people, it's more significant in marking what is yet to come. Cairo has just begun and we're excited to see where it will go from here. In this release, we have marked three backends as "supported" xlib, image, win32 and all other backends as "experimental" which as such, do not have part in the API guarantees of this release."
Web Site Development Zope 3.1.0 RC 2 released!Version 3.1.0 RC 2 of the Zope web development platform is available. "It is in our opinion that Zope 3.1 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition etween Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible."
Desktop Applications Audio Applications JackMix 0.1.0 releasedVersion 0.1.0 of JackMix, a mixing application for the Jack Audio Connection Kit, has been released. "This new release includes a dir where I did some first tests with OSC, which I plan to use for communication between the mixer-server and the gui(s). Until now its just a lib and two test-apps in that dir."
Snd-ls V0.9.5.3 and Mammut V0.21Version 0.9.5.3 of Snd-ls, a distribution of the sound editor Snd is out with performance improvements and bug fixes. Also, Version 0.21 of Mammut, an audio FFT package, has been announced.
Business Applications Using Drools in Your Enterprise Java Application (O'ReillyNet)Paul Browne discusses Drools on O'Reilly. "Enterprise Java developers have many fine framework choices at the presentation and persistence levels, but what about the business logic that sits in the middle? Do you want to recompile a mass of if ... then spaghetti code every time a manager drops a new gotcha in your lap? In this article, Paul Browne suggests that a rule engine like Drools may be an ideal fit for this task."
Tina POS 0.0.9 released (SourceForge)Version 0.0.9 of Tina POS, a point of sales application for systems with touch screens, has been announced. "This version adds mayor changes to Tina POS like inventory management, refunds, new taxes management and more. "
Zope3 / ERP Project LaunchedThe Zope3/ERP Project (enterprise resource planning) has been launched. "The goal of the project is to leverage the Zope3 platform and build an ERP solution based on ERP5 technologies with the capability of handling more than 1,000 concurrent users or 1,000,000,000 business records and compete with the famous proprietary ERP solutions. The project has been discussed with ERP5 developers and customers in Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe for now one year. Initial high performance experimentations have been conducted with success and give us the confidence that this goal can be reached."
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.12 RC Public Testing ReleasePublic Testing Release 2.12 RC of GNOME has been announced. "Also known as 2.11.92, GNOME 2.11 RC is the release candidate intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in September. It is packed full of tasty GNOME goodness, so if you're itching to find out what we've been doing, and can't wait to finish building it, take a look at Davyd's Prerelease Tour of this release".
GNOME Software AnnouncementsThe following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
KDE Software AnnouncementsThe following new KDE software has been announced this week:
KDE Commit Digest (KDE.News)The August 28, 2005 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. Here's the content summary: "KTuberling gets Serbian sounds. Configuring backgrounds per display in Xinerama implimented. SoC projects progress. Speech Recognition (for hot-keys) merges into KDE 3.5. Webcam support for msn in Kopete. Kate adds syntax highlight support for /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab files... Rejoice!"
Electronics gEDA/gaf 20050820 snapshotA new snapshot of gEDA/gaf (gschem and friends), a suite of electronic simulation and CAD tools, is out with bug fixes and more. See the release notes for details.
Icarus Verilog Snapshot 20050829Snapshot 20050829 of the Icarus Verilog electronic simulation language compiler has been announced. "Wake up everybody, I really *am* doing lots of work on Icarus Verilog. Here comes another snapshot with lots of new stuff for the development branch."
kicad 2005-08-29 releasedRelease 2005-08-29 of kicad, an electronic schematic/PCB system, is available with bug fixes and other enhancements.
Games Hexen2: Hammer of Thyrion 1.3.0 released (SourceForge)Version 1.3.0 of Hexen2: Hammer of Thyrion, a first-person shooter game, has been announced. "Hammer of Thyrion is a port of Raven's class based first person shooter Hexen2 source code and is based on the original Linux Hexen II project, Anvil of Thyrion. HoT includes many bugfixes, improved sound and video".
TORCS version 1.2.4 released (SourceForge)Version 1.2.4 of TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator, has been announced. "The 1.2.4 release highlights are reworked tracks and cars, updated sound and added OpenAL support, more clever and new opponents, support for texture compression and downscaling, heavily improved collision detection and response, a Windows debug project, lots of little improvements and bug fixes, and an updated track editor."
GUI Packages PyQt 3.15 releasedVersion 3.15 of PyQt, a Python interface to the Qt GUI toolkit, is out. "All classes now support Python's cyclic garbage collector. Utility functions have been added to QAxBase to ease integration with win32com on Windows. Automatic type conversion has been improved using available real-time type information."
Interoperability Wine TrafficThe August 26, 2005 edition of Wine Traffic is available. Topics include: Theming Support, Authentication & ntlm_auth, Safedisc Update, WineHQ Downtime, Non-continuable Exceptions, Sharing IDL Generated Headers and Google Talk.
Music Applications Freecycle 0.5 alpha has been releasedVersion 0.5 alpha of Freecycle, a beat slicer that provides amplitude and frequency domain beat matching, is out. "Lot of new features in this release, among which a fully functional midi subsystem, allowing the assignement of midi notes to locked beatlines and realtime playing of midi note events. Freecycle now supports drag n'drop from/to or within Freecycle. Moreover, it allows the drag n'droped waves to be stacked and assigned to a scene."
Patchage 0.2.2 ReleasedVersion 0.2.2 of Patchage, a modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa MIDI, is out with bug fixes.
Office Applications Gnumeric 1.5.5 Released (GnomeDesktop)Version 1.5.5 of the Gnumeric spreadsheet has been announced. "This release repairs the long-broken solver and fixes a couple of problems with the sheet management dialog."
Office Suites The second OpenOffice.org 2.0 betaThe OpenOffice.org project has released a new beta of the upcoming 2.0 release. This is a good chance for those interested in the 2.0 release (which is full of new features) to help shake out the last bugs.
OpenOffice.org NewsletterThe OpenOffice.org newsletter for August is out. It looks at the beta 2 announcement, the upcoming OpenOffice.org conference, and more.
Peer to Peer Distributing Content with BitTorrent (O'Reilly)Robert Bernier discusses the publishing of content using BitTorrent on O'Reilly. "BitTorrent has three distinct components: the client, the web server, and the tracker. The client is the person/machine that downloads the content. The web server provides a link to a file called a torrent. The torrent is a specially created file that describes the shared file and the location of the tracker. This third component is a service that waits for a connection from a client. It sits on a user-assigned socket that can be either on the same machine as the web server or at another location. The tracker not only supervises the sharing of the content between multiple clients, but also logs all downloading activities. The tracker can manage many files at the same time from many different torrents on many different web servers."
Science GNU TeXmacs 1.0.5.7 releasedStable version 1.0.5.7 of GNU TeXmacs, a scientific text editor which was inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs, is available. See the project news for change information.
Video Applications DVD converter 'videotrans-1.0.1' released (SourceForge)Version 1.0.1 of videotrans has been announced. "Yesterday "videotrans-1.0.0" was released, which contained some installation problems. Videotrans-1.0.1 should fix these problems. videotrans is a set of scripts that allow its user to reformat existing movies into the VOB format that is used on DVDs."
Web Browsers Mozilla Firefox and Minimo development schedules (MozillaZine)MozillaZine covers the release schedule for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta. "The Mozilla Developer News weblog has posted the schedule for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta, with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 scheduled for release on Thursday 8th September. In preparation for the release, the tree will be locked down at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -0700) on Tuesday 6th September."Also, see this article for information on the development path for the Minimo mobile browser.
Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)The minutes from the August 15, 2005 mozilla.org Staff Meeting have been announced. "Issues discussed include Joi Ito, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 branching, planning for Firefox 2.0 and Thunderbird 2.0, marketing and the Mozilla Foundation reorganization."
Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)The minutes from the July 25, 2005 mozilla.org staff meeting have been announced. "Issues discussed include bugs in the Mozilla 1.7.11 release, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 planning, OSCON and the Mozilla Foundation reogranization."
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly NewsThe August 23-30, 2005 Caml Weekly News is online with the latest Caml language articles.
Java This week on harmony-devThe August 21-27, 2005 edition of This week on harmony-dev is online with coverage of the developments to the Harmony open-source Java platform.
Lisp SBCL 0.9.4 releasedVersion 0.9.4 of SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) has been announced. "This version features major changes such as the Solaris x86 port, better heap management and performance enhancements on MIPS platforms, improved ANSI compliance, new documentation, and several bug fixes."
wxCL 1.1.0 Alpha releasedVersion 1.1.0 Alpha of wxCL, a Common LISP interface to the wxWidgets GUI library, is out with new features, bug fixes, and a license change.
Perl This Week in Perl 6The August 17-23, 2005 edition of This Week in Perl 6 is online with the latest Perl 6 development news.
Perl Needs Better Tools (O'Reilly)Matisse Enzer ponders the future of Perl on O'Reilly. "Perl is in danger of becoming a fading language--new programmers are learning Java and Python in college, and companies like Google hardly use Perl at all. If you are afraid that Perl may be in danger of becoming irrelevant for medium-to-large projects, then read on."
Python Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!The August 30, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is available with more new Python article links.
python-dev SummaryThis week's python-dev Summary covers the python-dev mailing list traffic for August 1-15, 2005.
IMDbPY 2.1 released (SourceForge)Version 2.1 of IMDbPY has been released. "IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database. With this release you can transfer the whole content of the plain text data files (distributed by IMDb) into a SQL database. A lot of bugs where fixed, and the 'http' data access system retrieves some new information."
Ruby Ruby Weekly NewsThe August 28th, 2005 edition of the Ruby Weekly News summarizes the latest discussions on the ruby-talk mailing list.
Tcl/Tk Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!The August 24, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is online with the latest Tcl/Tk news and resources.
Build Tools cruisecontrol 2.3 releasedVersion 2.3 of cruisecontrol is out with bug fixes and other improvements. "CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, maven, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds."
Debuggers Valgrind 3.0.1 (for x86 and amd64) is availableVersion 3.0.1 of Valgrind, a suite of simulation based debugging and profiling tools, is out. "3.0.1 fixes a bunch of bugs reported in 3.0.0. There is no new functionality. Some of the fixed bugs are critical, so if you use or distribute 3.0.0, an upgrade to 3.0.1 is recommended."
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