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The Instrument Element is a Grid/Cloud component that provides the computational/data Grid with an abstraction of real instruments and provides users with a more interactive interface to control them.

transconv (transparency converter) makes the color which appears in the upper left corner of the image translucent and converts the image into the PNG format, which supports transparency.

Linux.com: "Nominations are now open for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The winner could be someone you know, or someone whose work you admire, but don't mull over your recommendation too long -- entries must be submitted by September 30."

Cubit POS is a network point of sale system. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: A bunch of minor bugs were fixed in CashSale.java. Some unused code was removed. More comments were added and some code was made more readable. The navigation buttons now align better. The ability to change the currency symbol was added. The ability to change the name of the type of Tax used (eg. VAT, Sales Tax) was added. The ability to change the Tax percentage was added. A report to view daily tax from sales was added. A bug concerning printing was fixed. Installation documentation was added.

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: One major bug in the 2.5.0 release that caused the whole X session to terminate on some systems has been fixed. Additionally, a few lesser bugs have been fixed.

spriteconv stitches several individual still images into a single image with all the components side by side, arranged into a specified number of rows and columns. Such output images are typically used in 2D video games to realize the various states of animation for a particular graphical element, known as a "sprite".

MonoDecrypt uses pattern matching and its knowledge about character frequencies in order to decrypt messages encoded with a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. MonoDecrypt can decrypt texts of any language, as long as it has sufficient information about the language. Depending on the information you give it, the tool decrypts about 50%-100% on its own. Then you can decrypt the remaining data by filling the gaps or correcting bad guesses. MonoDecrypt can also encrypt texts using monoalphabetic substitution.

JEXIT (Java Regular EXpression ITerator) is a tool for simple and quick testing of regular expressions. It allows you to input the regular expression to test and some sample data on which to test it.

AskoziaPBX is more than another GUI for Asterisk. It is an embedded PBX solution which eases system upgrades, backups, and provisioning. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: New outgoing Caller ID options for ISDN and Analog Providers was added. New Portuguese language audio prompts were added. WebGUI localizations for Greek, German, Italian, and Dutch were updated. The annoying "Remote UNIX connection" messages are no longer generated. Two old hardware compatibility bugs have also been resolved: systems with Cyrix 5530 ATA controllers and Intel D201GL* boards are now working.

Qote is a small FTP simulator. It could be used as a honeypot of sorts. It logs date, time, IP address, and whatever usernames and passwords have been used to try to access the (nonexistent) FTP server. It has been tested and runs on Fedora 8 Linux.

libpng (PNG library) is a collection of routines used to create and manipulate PNG format graphics files. The PNG format was designed as a replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many improvements and extensions. License: OSI Approved Changes: This release fixes a new bug with reading the PNG cHRM chunk, and reverts the png_flush() behavior to that of version 1.2.29.

fixx is a bug tracking and issue tracking system for software teams in the enterprise. By focusing on the needs of software developers and their managers, fixx enables you to collaborate, painlessly resolve bugs, and deliver quality software on time. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: An iPhone interface was added. The ability to have private or restricted projects was added. Various bugs were fixed.

Yet Another Dynamic Engine (YADE) is an extensible framework that is designed with dynamic libraries in a way that it is easy to add new numerical models and objects. There are four different models: Discrete Element Method based on spheres, a second method based on tetrahedra, modelling with lattice elements, and Finite Element Method. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release has major improvements. The Qt3 interface was refactored and a Python scripting console was added. It is now possible to control most of the simulation from within a Python script. Clipping planes were added to the graphical view and plotting of resultant curves is possible. A new moment rotation law for DEM spheres was added and fully tested. The DEM triaxial test was improved in many aspects. Finally, an STL entity importer was added, making it possible to import shapes from sources such as blender 3D modeling software.

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Sun Microsystems says its open source storage initiative is catching on, with registered members growing and more than 40 projects under way.

Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Gambas object files are now kind with rmplint. The gb.qt menu shortcut management has been fixed. The gb.gtk system tray icons management has been fixed.

Ctpp is the C99-compatible C preprocessor of the Ctalk language, which provides object oriented extensions for C. The preprocessor is compatible with GNU cpp and provides extensions like macro expansion in warning and error messages, saving expanded macros to files, and built-in symbol definition for many command line options. You can download the preprocessor separately while Ctalk is between versions for development. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This release contains updated configuration files and simpler method declaration parsing.

KDE3TO4 is a wizard implemented as a set of modular bash scripts to help users migrating from KDE3 to KDE4 by easily migrating settings for various applications from their old KDE3 settings directory to their new KDE4 settings directory. It requires that you keep the two directories in separate locations. The modular design makes it easy for anybody to add support for any application. On average, the amount of work for a given application is very little and the wizard takes care of integrating it into the overall process easily. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: Support for migrating konqueror search providers setup was added. A bug in the konqueror script was fixed. Several more important blacklists were added.

Rapla is a flexible multi-user resource and event management system. It features multiple calendars, periods, conflict management, hierarchies, and fully configurable resource and reservation types. The primary target of the program was universities. It allows coordination beetween the lectures and the administration. It offers multiple ways to view the available resources and schedule the events. It started as simple room booking software, but in the last five years it has evolved into a fully configurable framework for event and resource management.

The Gamebook Engine is a cross-platform engine for writing gamebooks, such as the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series or the "Lone Wolf" series. TGE can interpret scripts that use the "Hyena" gamebook format. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: A few errors in ring-of-thieves.gamebook were fixed. A crash when loading a gamebook and then loading a gamebook again was fixed. More detailed installation and compile instructions were added to the README file. The Linux binary was linked against Qt 4.2.1. Previous TGE versions were linked against 4.4.0, and would not work properly if a previous Qt version was used at run-time. find-error.cpp was added to the source archive, which helps to find scripting errors in gamebooks.

Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for many filesystem types (Reiserfs, Reiser4, Ext2/3/4, HFS+, ISO-9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains several utilities for system recovery. It also has IDE/SCSI/SATA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable network support. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Some software updates and fixes and improvements were done.