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smspasswd software provides two factor authentication via cell phone short message service (SMS). The reason I wrote this was because of all the pesky SSH brute force attacks, which continue to build in numbers. I didn’t want to waste money and time on using tokens because the few people who...

Fastdeploy is a Web-based system that works with various operating systems automated installer scripting and/or semantics (e.g., Kickstart, Preseeding, Windows Unattended, etc.) to completely automate the process of installing operating systems and related server software. The project is...

Free60 Gentoo LiveCD Xenon is a liveCD for Linux on the Xbox 360. It is based on the experimental gentoo liveCD that can be found here: http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/experimental/ppc64/livecd/ It has a few changes to boot on the Xbox 360 (codename xenon). How does it work ? Burn...


Platforms: *nix

OpenLDAP-PostgreSQL Linux HOWTO is a HOWTO for implementing PostgreSQL as an SQL backend for OpenLDAP. This HOWTO doesnt talk about OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL or iODBC in this document I suppose that you know all that, I just provide my personnal installation of these apps. So in this new version I...


Platforms: *nix

Publimark is a command line tool to secretly embed text in an audio file. Like cryptography, Publimark project uses a pair of keys: the public one can be shared, whereas the private one must be kept secret. Anybody can send a steganographic message, but only the private key owner will be able...


Platforms: *nix

IPTables log analizer displays Linux 2.4 iptables logs (rejected, acepted, masqueraded packets...) in a nice HTML page (it support rough netfilter logs but also Shorewall and Suse Firewall logs). This page shall be easy to read and understand to reduce the manual analysis time. This page...


Platforms: *nix

KNetworkManager is the KDE front end for NetworkManager. KNetworkManager project provides a sophisticated and intuitive user interface which enables users easily to switch their network environment. The range of functions encompasses the features implemented by NetworkManager daemon. Up until...


Platforms: *nix

Band Saw is a syslog monitoring program for the GNOME desktop. Band Saw project allows the user to setup filters that define which messages should generate alerts. Combined with syslogs remote logging functionality it provides a scalable and easily deployed monitoring solution. How does it...


Platforms: *nix

JDatabaseImport is a simple tool created to import data between different databases. How does it work? You can work with it in two ways, either using a configuration file or accessing its api using Java. Example: The following code show an example of a file called *export.xml*: < export...


Platforms: *nix

VoteField provides a vote field to your archetypes contents. How does it work ? From the view of the content, any user can vote for it by clicking on a button. It also show the number of votes for the content. Users can only vote once for a content. The vote verification is done with...


Platforms: *nix

Tag Cloud Explorer allows you to do keywords based search on your site published documents. This product installs a tag cloud portlet on your Plone site The portlet allow you to do keywords based search on your site published documents. Multi-keywords search is also possible, by clicking on...


Platforms: *nix

PloneDeepTrashcan is a project which allows contents to be trashed in a repository. PloneDeepTrashcan keeps documents that were trashed (not deleted) in a central trashcan. PloneDeepTrashcan keeps a reference to the original folder for all content moved to its trashcan. The reference is not...


Platforms: *nix

ZoneMaker is a script for making BIND zone files. ZoneMaker uses files similar to ini files to simplify updating several zone files simultaneously. The script is fully capable of producing both normal and reverse zones as well as being able to produce HINFO, TXT and LOC records. Currently...


Platforms: *nix

CSer is a library for C++ serialization, also called persistence. This isnt quite a simple as you might think, since one object may be pointed to by multiple other objects. How does it work? Writing out integers and character strings is fairly straightforward. The trick is dealing with...


Platforms: *nix

HPGL-Distiller is a small program that was written to filter out aspects of a HPGL file which are not relevant for various HPGL output devices, typically vinyl cutters. The original reason for filtering out the irrelevant codes was that my own personal vinyl cutter was responding poorly to the...


Platforms: *nix

HPGL-DXF project can convert HPGL files into DXF format, which can be read by the likes of QCAD. HPGL-DXF is a small program that was written originally to allow the conversion of HPGL formatted circuit board CAM files into DXF files so that they could be subsequently processed by a laser...


Platforms: *nix

i.File is a file manager for Linux written for the Windows refugees that are arriving in Linux only to find that the state of the user interface is rather poor. I personally somewhat fall into this catagory, although more as a power user than the average Joe. Both the leading file managers for...


Platforms: *nix

VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a tree of tables. You could say that VTE is something of a research project of mine, based on the simple question: "if programs can use a termcap file (through either libtermcap or curses or ncurses) to determine how to drive a terminal, why...


Platforms: *nix

Apache::PAR::tutorial is a Perl module with information on getting Apache::PAR up and running. Apache::PAR is a framework for including Perl ARchive files in a mod_perl (1.x or 2.x) environment. It allows an author to package up a web application, including configuration, static files, Perl...


Platforms: *nix

EJOE is a lightweight Java client/server component built to send and receive objects through pluggable (de)serialization mechanisms. EJOE porject offers a high-performance, simple, and clean object request broker (whereby ORB is meant in its natural manner and not in its relation with CORBA),...


Platforms: *nix