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RUSSIAN SHASHKI. Shashki is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has blue pieces, and the other has red pieces. Pieces move diagonally and pieces of the opponent are captured by jumping over them. The playable surface consists only of the dark...

Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesnt depend on the window manager or on a desktop-drawing program (for example, I use it with Nautilus). It is meant to work with window managers that are EWHM compliant. However, I only know for sure that it...

CrossTeX is a new bibliography management tool. The project comprises a new bibliographic database format that is much less prone to error compared to other alternatives like BibTex, and a new, more flexible tool for creating the citations that appear at the end of scholarly texts. CrossTeX was...


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GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks with the historical Unix directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as /usr and /etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree;...


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TaxiPilot is just a silly little game. The project is based on what I remember of the Spacetaxi-game on the C64. The objective is to pick up passengers waiting on a number of platforms and to drop them where they want to go. Thats basically it. Whats New in This Release: - added initial...


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Module::Install::Philosophy Perl module contains the concepts behind Module::Install. SYNOPSIS This document describes the personal philosophy behind the creation of CPAN::MakeMaker (the predecessor of Module::Install). The views expressed here belong to Brian Ingerson; if they are not of...


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PDL::Indexing Perl module contains a tutorial on how to index piddles. This manpage should serve as a first tutorial on the indexing and threading features of PDL. This manpage is still in alpha development and not yet complete. "Meta" comments that point out deficiencies/omissions of this...


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ClearCase::Wrapper::DSB Perl module contains David Boyces contributed cleartool wrapper functions. SYNOPSIS This is an overlay module for ClearCase::Wrapper containing David Boyces non-standard extensions. See perldoc ClearCase::Wrapper for more details. CLEARTOOL ENHANCEMENTS CATCS 1....


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pam_sqlite allows developers to authenticate users against a table in an SQLite database. pam_sqlite supports checking account information (pam_acct_expired, new_authtok_reqd) and updating authentication tokens. Compilation & Installation pam_sqlite is autoconfed, thus, compiling should be a...


Platforms: *nix

Tk::Adjuster module will allow size of packed widgets to be adjusted by user. SYNOPSIS use Tk::Adjuster; $adjuster = $widget->Adjuster(?options?); WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS Name: restore Class: Restore Switch: -restore Specifies a boolean value that determines whether the Adjuster...


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MP3html is a utility for generating listings of MP3 files based on their ID3 tags and information such as bitrate, duration, and file size. Because it makes use of template files and is script-friendly, it can easily be used to create just about any kind of list you can think of. Its most common...


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Mail::Bulkmail is a platform independent mailing list module. SYNOPSIS use Mail::Bulkmail /path/to/conf.file my $bulk = Mail::Bulkmail->new( "LIST" => "~/my.list.txt", "From" => "Jim Thomason" , "Subject" => "This is a test message", "Message" => "Here is my test message" ) || die...


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Data::Page::Viewport is a Perl module to scroll thru data a page, or just an item, at a time. Synopsis This is a complete, tested, runnable program. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Page::Viewport; # ----------------------------------------------- my(@data) =...


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EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. No longer is EPIC 100% backwards compatable with ircII, but instead we have chosen to find those things where compatability is undesirable, and fix them. No gratuitous incompatabilities have been added, but lots of new code has been added to make...


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Time::Piece is a Perl module that contains Object Oriented time objects. SYNOPSIS use Time::Piece; my $t = localtime; print "Time is $tn"; print "Year is ", $t->year, "n"; This module replaces the standard localtime and gmtime functions with implementations that return objects. It does...


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Moose::Cookbook::FAQ is a frequenty asked questions about Moose. Is Moose "production ready"? Yes and No. Currently I have one web application in production using Moose, and at $work we are re-writing our core offering to use Moose. Several other people on #moose either have sites in...


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Pod::HTML2Pod Perl module can translate HTML into POD. SYNOPSIS # Use the program html2pod that comes in this dist, or: use Pod::HTML2Pod; print Pod::HTML2Pod::convert( file => my_stuff.html, # input file a_href => 1, # try converting links ); Larry Wall once said (1999-08-27, on the...


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DataMonster is a console based application for managing data for d20 D&D games. Goals include monster generation, xp calculator, game time/calendar and combat manager. Whats New in This Release: - The xp returned from the calc command was backwards. That is now fixed. - NEW! xp command. Use...


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Paco project is a source code package organizer for Unix/Linux systems, originally written to aid package management when installing an LFS system. When installing a package from sources, paco wraps the "make install" command (or whatever is needed to install the files into the system), and...


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Filesys::Df is a Perl extension for filesystem disk space information. SYNOPSIS use Filesys::Df; #### Get information by passing a scalar directory/filename value my $ref = df("/tmp"); # Default output is 1K blocks if(defined($ref)) { print "Total 1k blocks: $ref->{blocks}n"; print...


Platforms: *nix