Serena Scott Thomas

Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen.At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger... Platforms: Windows

Now you can find out without even logging into the box by only analyzing the packets on the network! Every wonder if someone is remotely logging in to one of your boxen and then going on to another? Now you can find out without even logging into the box by only analyzing the packets on the... Platforms: *nix

moltiblock is a user-space plugin to netfilter for blocking lots of nets. No need to recompile kernel or patch other sources. To install just type make. Then copy the binary to /usr/local/sbin or wherever. Put one CIDR per line in /etc/moltiblock/cidr.deny, like so: -- snip --... Platforms: *nix

Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum. Pipebench measures the speed of a pipe, by sitting in the middle passing the data along to the next process. Works on... Platforms: *nix

App::Options is Perl module to combine command line options, environment vars, and option file values (for program configuration). SYNOPSIS #!/usr/local/bin/perl use App::Options; # reads option values into %App::options by default # do something with the options (in %App::options) use... Platforms: *nix

Catch the Macs is a classic arcade shooter game. Shoot down Wintel machines to save the Macs. For OS 8 or 9 only (does not work in classic mode) Platforms: Mac

The PropertyWindow is a further development of Thomas Allins popular PropertyWindow control The PropertyWindow control is a powerful fully functional control supported by a comprehensive object model which allows the user to modify attributes in the same way that properties can be modified in the... Platforms: Windows

Persistent::Oracle is a persistent class implemented using an Oracle database. SYNOPSIS use Persistent::Oracle; use English; # import readable variable names like $EVAL_ERROR eval { ### in case an exception is thrown ### ### allocate a persistent object ### my $emp = new... Platforms: *nix

mixplayd is a daemon that can be told to play mp3 (and now also ogg) files from the local file system. It cannot be controlled directly but with telnet. It has a built-in multi-channel mixer, so you can play several files on different channels with different volumes simultanously. This is very... Platforms: *nix

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. Seed7 project is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. An open-source Seed7 compiler is also under development. In Seed7 new... Platforms: *nix

DBA Companion is a free open-source Oracle administration tool. I am building this tool for my own needs. This means, it does not necessarily contain all the information you can extract from an Oracle database nor all the information that *you* may require. Configuration: Set... Platforms: *nix

Mac ASCII Invaders is a text-based clone of Space Invaders that runs in a Terminal window.Based on Thomas Munro'sASCII Invaders source code. Platforms: Mac

If your name is ,by chance, Adolph Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus (the longest real name according to Wikipedia) or if you are born in the (a nice place in... Platforms: Windows

Search::ContextGraph is a Perl module for spreading activation search engine. SYNOPSIS use Search::ContextGraph; my $cg = Search::ContextGraph->new(); # first you add some documents, perhaps all at once... my %docs = ( first => [ elephant, snake ], second => [ camel, pony ], third =>... Platforms: *nix

CMIX is a computer music "language" designed to create and manipulate soundfiles, or files containing raw binary data which can be converted into sound on a computer equipped with an appropriate digital-to-analog convertor. It is somewhat similar to CSOUND and CMUSIC (two other popular software... Platforms: *nix

Metacity is a lightweight window manager written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat. The first version was 2.3, which was released in 2001. Metacity is implemented with the GTK+ 2.x toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME 2.x platform. In fact the intention is to remove the traditional... Platforms: *nix

Conky is a light-weight system monitor. Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since its original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from its predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has... Platforms: *nix

IRCTree is a project which shows a tree representing the structure of an IRC network in ASCII. Introduction IRCTree shows a tree in ascii format representing the structure of an IRC network. You need netcat (nc) for it to work. Example uses $ irctree irc.swipnet.se Compiling No... Platforms: *nix

The project is a simple program using xine code from mplayer (thanks!) to download BBC Listen Again streams. Simply open the "Listen with External Real Player" links with this program and you can save the Real audio file. Play it with mplayer, vlc, or even Real Player (their linux player is... Platforms: *nix

TimeMon gives a graphical representation of where the CPU cycles are going. TimeMon is coarse, but better than nothing. The best feature is that it runs in an icon on your dock, so that you never lose it. Originally by Scott Hess, this app has been ported to both GNUstep and Mac OS X.. Platforms: *nix