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It is 2074. Astronomers from around the world are watching an asteroid crash into the surface of Mars leaving a huge crater. Clouds of dust and vapor hide the surface of the planet for several long months. Communication with all Martian research stations is lost. When the clouds clear away,...

Bigasoft iPhone Video Converter is an easy-to-use video to iPhone converter which can transform almost all video formats for watching on iPhone. It can fast convert a broad range of video files like AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB, 3GP and so on to iPhone video MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264)....

Tie::ListKeyedHash is a system allowing the use of anonymous arrays as keys to a hash. SYNOPSIS use Tie::ListKeyedHash; [$X =] tie %hash, Tie::ListKeyedHash; my $live_key = [key,items,live]; $hash{$live_key} = Hello!; $hash{[key,trees,grow]} = Goodbye!; print...


Platforms: *nix

Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh). The project is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling...


Platforms: *nix

grammydotru123 eases interaction with the MP3 portal grammy.ru. It works in this way: you seek up the url of an artist or an album at grammy.ru, and then just invoke grammydotru123 or python grammydotru123 and it fetches all songs belonging to the artist/album (a song of an album of...


Platforms: *nix

revava is a single pass disassembler that reads in a file containing a program intended for an Atmel AVR microcontroller and outputs assembly code that can be input to an avr assembler. The output of revava contains assembler mnemonics where possible and dc.W declarations where no mnemonic...


Platforms: *nix

GD::Image::Thumbnail is a Perl extension for creating thumbnailed images with GD. SYNOPSIS use GD::Image::Thumbnail; my $img = GD::Image->new(100,20); my $thm = $img->thumbnail; # same as { factor => 0.20 } my $thm = $img->thumbnail($n); # same as { side => $n } my $thm =...


Platforms: *nix

ETrace is a configurable static port network tracing tool, similar to traceroute, but supporting ICMP, TCP, UDP and other IP protocols. Usage: etrace [ -BbCcnv ] [ -p profile ] [ -F config ] [ -i interface ] [ -I icmp-type ] [ -T port ] [ -U port ] [ -P protocol ] [ -r probe-count ] [ -t...


Platforms: *nix

cghttpd software is a coronet plus guasi based trivial web server, that has been developed to test the level of performance that can be achieved with such solution. This project is not by far a complete web server, and neither a server that you want to expose to the public network. SYNOPSIS...


Platforms: *nix

spuug is a little tool that generates the boilerplate code for GObjects. I you dont know what they are, then probably this tool is of little use to you... spuug can be used for plain GObjects, but also for GTK+-widgets etc., and tries to be a bit smart with the code in spits out. Ive been using...


Platforms: *nix

CAD::Drawing::IO::Tk is a Perl module with GUI I/O methods for CAD::Drawing. This module is considered extremely pre-ALPHA and its use is probably deprecated by the time you read this. Methods There is no constructor for this class, its methods are inherited via CAD::Drawing::IO Thoughts...


Platforms: *nix

Lib3df is a C++ library to load 3D world. It works under Windows,MacOS,Linux and most Unixes. HLIB is a C++ library intended to facilitate the use of ".MAP" files in applications. ".MAP" files are produced by the "Valve Hammer Editor" availlable at: http://collective.valve-erc.com/ . This is...


Platforms: *nix

Data::Region Perl module can define hierarchical areas with behaviors. SYNOPSIS use Data::Region; $r = Data::Region->new( 8.5, 11, { data => PageObj->new() } ); $r->data( PageObj->new() ); foreach my $c ( $r->subdivide(2.5,3) ) { $a = $c->area(0.25,0.25, 2.25,2.75); $a2 =...


Platforms: *nix

freesteam is an open source implementation of international-standard steam tables from the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). freesteam lets you compute water and steam properties for a wide range of pressures and temperatures: you can specify the state of...


Platforms: *nix

GD::Text is a Perl module with text utilities for use with GD. SYNOPSIS use GD; use GD::Text; my $gd_text = GD::Text->new() or die GD::Text::error(); $gd_text->set_font(funny.ttf, 12) or die $gd_text->error; $gd_text->set_font(gdTinyFont); $gd_text->set_font(GD::Font::Tiny); ......


Platforms: *nix

Net::TCP::PtyServer is a Perl module that serves pseudo-terminals. Opens a listening connection on a port, waits for network connections on that port, and serves each one in a seperate PTY. Coping with terminal size changes To set the size of a terminal, you need to call ioctl(), and pass...


Platforms: *nix

The fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python is called NumPy.  This package contains: - a powerful N-dimensional array object - sophisticated (broadcasting) functions - basic linear algebra functions - basic Fourier transforms - sophisticated random number capabilities...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

ngbatch project is a newsgroup/rmgroups batcher for INN. SYNOPSIS < ngbatch -n > < group > [ < flag > [ < creator > ] ] < ngbatch -r > < group > < ngbatch -e > [ < -D > ] [ < -w > < days > ] [ < -h > < days > ] This program executes newgroup and rmgroup controls in a delayed way, to...


Platforms: *nix

Oracle::CAPI is a Perl XS wrapper extension for the Oracle Collaboration Suite CAPI SDK. SYNOPSIS use Oracle::CAPI; use Text::vCard; Oracle::CAPI::SetConfigFile($CAPI_INI_FNAME,$CAPI_LOG_FNAME) && die("Cant init/log CAPI"); $capi_session = Oracle::CAPI::CreateSession() || die("Cant create...


Platforms: *nix

Statistics::GaussHelmert is a general weighted least squares estimation module. SYNOPSIS use Statistics::GaussHelmert; # create an empty model my $estimation = new Statistics::GaussHelmert; # setup the model given observations $y, covariance matrices # $Sigma_yy, an initial guess $b0...


Platforms: *nix