Short Answer

Beyond Linux From Scratch or BLFS in short, is a project that continues where the LFS book finishes. It assists users in developing their systems according to their needs by providing a broad range of instructions for installing and configuring various packages on top of a base LFS system. Why...

Quizmaster project is a program designed to allow the creation of short, fun quizzes. Quizmaster is a type-oriented quiz program that gives multiple-choice questions along the axes you provide and selects the results that most closely match your visitors responses (think SelectSmart or the...

Simply Powerful ToolKit in short SPTK is a powerful widget toolkit based on the Fast and Light ToolKit (FLTK). The goal of this library is to create the easy-to-use, compact and effective library of controls to extend the abilities of FLTK library. It is geared for business-style application...


Platforms: *nix

Computation Job Management (jobman in short) is a program that calls executables according to a given program flow. Each executable is run in a separate process. It is useful when a project needs to carry out a series of calculations that are performed by software written in different languages...


Platforms: *nix

HTML Redemption Language, or HRL for short, is an HTML-preprocessor. Its basically a macro package, with built-in Python scripting. It redeems HTML by adding useful tags such as < include >, < macro >, < if >, and < python >. The last tag allows the web site designer to embed Python...


Platforms: *nix

AMPLE is short for "A MP3 LEnder". I wrote AMPLE one summer when I was coding for a company and got fed up with having to FTP over all my MP3 files from my home server to the computer at work just to listen to them. And through the other "MP3 servers" I could find didnt fit my needs for one of...


Platforms: *nix

The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a system CPU and memory load monitor. It displays something that looks like a vial containing water. The water level indicates how much memory is in use. The color of the liquid indicates how much swap space is used (watery blue means none...


Platforms: *nix

Cite enables Web developers to set up complete Web sites in very short time frames. Cite project has all the functionality needed to create arbitrary site structures. Trionic Cite is suited for many different user roles and usage scenarios: For content editors If you are the designated...


Platforms: *nix

Jauus is a software patching program that works over the Internet by making a single TCP connection to a host server. JAUUS project works on any Java-supported platform for any language or file type. The client/server sees each file as an object, and passes it over the network as such....


Platforms: *nix

Gnome-o-phone (gphone for short) is an internet telephone. In other words, if you and your friend have computers with sound cards and network connections, you can use gphone to talk to each other and save on phone bills. Gphone is definitely a work in progress and you probably shouldnt bet your...


Platforms: *nix

Immediate Answer lets you choose your search area from a pop-up menu. Type in your question, select web page, image, news or movie from the pop-up menu, hit return and get an answer from Jeeves. A special thanks to e-dot studios for letting me use a part of their Google Widget v 1.1 script.


Platforms: Mac

App::datetime is a date and time considerations. Most Enterprise development includes processing of dates and times. There are many date and time modules on CPAN, and choosing the right one can be confusing. There are no special perl data types for dates and times, so some direction is needed....


Platforms: *nix

Ethics Search Protocol in short ESP is an XML-based protocol for search engines that is designed to allow people to express specific ethical requirements when performing searches. Consumers seldom get the chance to communicate ethical requirements because the proper communication channel does...


Platforms: *nix

Yet Another Swing Library (YASL in short) provides a light-weight framework for developing Swing-based applications along with a library of Swing components and utilities. Swing is a much-maligned but rich library for developing Java-based gui applications. Despite what critics say, you can...


Platforms: *nix

Scalable OGo project (SOGo in short) is a groupware server built around the SOPE application server. Unlike OGo it is focused on scalability instead of depth in functionality. The web interface uses human readable URLs and can be accessed according to REST web service ideas. Notably it requires...


Platforms: *nix

Shelisp is a very short program that provides mechanisms for composing and running Unix shell (particularly bash) commands and constructs from Common Lisp. To run shelisp, say at the command prompt: lisp -load shelisp.lisp This should start CMU Common Lisp and provide the prompt, *. A more...


Platforms: *nix

Pldap short from PAM LDAP Module is an experimental attempt at writing a new LDAP authentication module for PAM. It is currently beta code, and only implements the basic elements of LDAP authentication. However, it does provide all the elements of a PAM module, and can be used to authenticate...


Platforms: *nix

waipssip is short for While AmaroK Is Playing Screen Saver Is Paused. This a simple script that disables the screensaver while amaroK is playing. Comments are available in source code. Dependences: DCOP module for Perl (available at your local CPAN) Caveats: (minor) If you have a longer...


Platforms: *nix

DisSent (short for "Distribute Sent Mails") is a program for separating your sent mail from a single folder into different folders based on properties of the individual messages in the folder. DisSent scans your mail storage and proposes a set of actions to tidy up your sent mail folders....


Platforms: *nix

The Epeios XML preprocessor (expp in short) is a tool which transforms an XML file to another XML file, by using tags owned by a given namespace (xpp by default, but you can change it). This tags allow to handle macros, to affect value to variables ant to test their values, to include files, ......


Platforms: *nix