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When reading a lot of data from disk or network filesystem, e.g. during a backup, buffer cache pollution can be a substantial performance problem for other processes on the machines involved due to buffer cache pollution. odirect is intended to provide a convenient way of avoiding that on systems...

The library born to solve a problem I had when working with the Linux Kernel archives that I use to replicate using hard links. Replicating archives with hard links is both fast and space saving, and it helped me a lot in speeding up my operations when working on the kernel source. A recent...

DPS-FTP is a multi-threaded FTP client for GNOME. It was originally called Kevlar FTP, since its interface was inspired by Bulletproof FTP, and Kevlar is bullet-proof. But DuPont actually sent me a notice telling me that I cant use their trademarked product names in my product name. They were...


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GladePyC is a Python code generator tool, from Glade XML save file, to the low-level part of "PyGtk", the Python - Gtk+ binding. Glade is a GUI builder for the Gtk+ GUI toolkit. PyGtk is the gateway between Python and Gtk+. Why: Those who know surely have already made the remark: "But why on...


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DWH_File module contains data and object persistence in deep and wide hashes. SYNOPSIS use DWH_File qw/ GDBM_File /; # the use argument set the DBM module used tie( %h, DWH_File, myFile, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644 ); untie( %h ); # essential! Note: the files produced by DWH_File 0.22 are in...


Platforms: *nix

Dmidecode project reports information about your systems hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS and DMI standard (see a sample output). This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of...


Platforms: *nix

Libsball is a simple POSIX-based library for communicating with Spaceball 2003, 3000, 3003, and 4000 FLX six-degree-of-freedom motion control devices, via RS-232 serial ports on Unix-like systems. Spaceballs are excellent controllers for CAD/CAM, scientific visualization, and general 3-D VR...


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Multiscan is a tcp port scanner for console which allows you to scan a range of IP addresses. Each IP address is pinged before it is scanned. It is also possible to scan just known ports, and to scan them in a random order. Feel free to send me a mail at coldn@gamearena.net Installation: Grab...


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Libmorph is a library that reads 3d mesh file formats saved by Autodesks 3D Studio and Newteks Lightwave. The main purpose of LibMorph is loading (and saving) 3d models (3d modeller object files). Given loader is dynamically linked when format of requested file is recognized. The library is...


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XML::XPathToXML is a Perl module that generates XML document from XPath expressions. SYNOPSIS my @data = ( /project/name => The Ultimate Question, /project/comment() => generated by XPathToXML , /project/start => 2002-09-08, /project/end => 7002002-09-08, /project/@id => 42,...


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Image::Imlib2 is a Perl interface to the Imlib2 image library. SYNOPSIS use Image::Imlib2; # create a new image my $image = Image::Imlib2->new(200, 200); # or load an image $image = Image::Imlib2->load("foo.png"); # Enable the alpha channel support $image->has_alpha(1); # set a...


Platforms: *nix

Guiftp is a simple FTP client using the GTK+ toolkit. It should work if you have Linux (currently Im using Debian 2.1 on a 386 box). If youre using another Unix... well you should try, I have no idea whether it will work or not (if it does tell me, and if not send me a mail to tell me what does...


Platforms: *nix

gpkcs11 provides support functions to make the development of support for new tokens easier and contains a complete software token, as well as an automated testing environment. gpkcs serves as a testing tool in the development of new applications that contain cryptographic support. A core of...


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MRTG-eth-probe provides a probe for the Multi Router Traffic Grapher, generating statistics for network devices that do not support the SNMP protocol. It reads interface stats from /proc/net/dev (or some other file you configure), and generates an output readable for MRTG by parsing the file....


Platforms: *nix

QtDSO is a frontend for the Velleman PCS64i digital oscilloscope. The project provides a fully featured oscillocope mode (including XY plot and math) and a highly configurable spectrum analyzer mode. It has been tested with the Velleman scope and didnt show problems here. If you encounter...


Platforms: *nix

RDF::Sesame::Repository is a repository on a Sesame server. This class is the workhorse of RDF::Sesame. Adding triples, removing triples and querying the repository are all done through instances of this class. Only SELECT queries are supported at this point, but it should be fairly...


Platforms: *nix

catty project is a small utility to write to and read from a serial tty device. You can use it in scripts, or directly writing some text to its stdin. With catty you can add in a few seconds of serial communication to your shell scripts. Build: Simply launch the tiny build script: ./Build...


Platforms: *nix

CD-Rom Control is an X Window control panel which eases the use of the cd-rom drive. It allows you to mount, eject/umount, the cd-rom drive at the click of a button.Other features include autostart and cd status checking. This software is provided as is and has been designed for use on a Linux...


Platforms: *nix

Synfig application is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient...


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Googolplex is just a Python class to do a query on Google search engine, parse it and returns the result as a list. My friend Matias Torchinsky wrote me a pretty brief history about the Googolplex: "According to the penguin dictionary of curious and interesting Numbers a googol is a number...


Platforms: *nix