Atomic Ski

Start to get into the spirit of Christmas holidays now and laugh a bit with this interactive screensaver. In it you can see how Frosty (a friendly snowman) skis along while you throw snowballs and jets of hot water at him. Obviously poor old Frosty doesn+t enjoy this experience quite as much as...

XML::Mini::Node contains nodes that are used as atomic containers for numerical and text data and act as leaves in the XML tree. They have no name or children. They always exist as children of XML::MiniElements. For example, < B >this text is bold< /B > Would be represented as a...

Frosty Goes Skiing Screen Saver helps you get into the holiday spirit with a few laughs. Check out this interactive Screen Saver, enjoy watching Frosty ski while you peg him with snowballs or squirt him with hot water. Caution... Frosty may not seem so jolly after being hit by a few snowballs!...


Platforms: Windows

Nasal is a language that I wrote for use in a personal project. Ostensibly it was because I was frustrated with the dearth of small-but-complete embeddable scripting languages, but of course I really wrote it because it was fun. It is still young and incomplete in a few places, but is under...


Platforms: *nix

X10 is an experimental new language currently under development at IBM in collaboration with academic partners. The X10 effort is part of the IBM PERCS project (Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computer Systems) in the DARPA program on High Productivity Computer Systems. The PERCS project is...


Platforms: *nix

Parsley is Atomicly Delicious is an MPEG-4 editor that akes TV Shows and other MPEG-4 files show up in iTunes and on an iPod correctly.Not satisfied with the existing GUI front ends for AtomicParsley I wrote my own. It's slimmer than the others I used by splitting the movie types into separate...


Platforms: Mac

Nice Widget that shows the open ski runs and facilities in Zermatt!


Platforms: Mac

TARIFA, which stands for Transactions by AssembleR Instrumentation FrAmework, aims to provide the "atomic" keyword to C/C++ for better support of concurrency programming. Instead of using lock-based designs with all their problems (deadlocks, difficult design, lack of reusability), the "atomic"...


Platforms: *nix

DS Clock is a digital desktop clock that displays variable date and time information built from the format string. The program allows you to fully customize its look and feel, and can synchronize your computer's clock with Atomic Time Servers. You can select any combination of date and time, pick...


Platforms: Windows

uLan Driver provides 9-bit message oriented communication protocol, which is transferred over RS-485 link. Characters are transferred same way as for RS-232 asynchronous transfer except parity bit, which is used to distinguish between data characters and protocol control information. A physical...


Platforms: *nix

SwapSwapVM is an AppleScript application made with Smile written to change thetarget volume (disk; partition) for the Virtual Memory swapfiles in OS X10.2.x Jaguar. It has been vigorously tested on various configurations underOS X 10.2.0 through 10.2.6. SwapSwapVM requires a default installation...


Platforms: Mac

WebTime 2000 is a small utility program that will synchronize your PC's internal clock with one of the several atomic clocks maintained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. You can run WebTime automatically every time Windows is started or open the program, select...


Platforms: Windows

Franchise Time Synchronizer franchise time software helps you keep your franchise computer up-to-date with the exact current time. Franchise Time Synchronizer will reference an atomic clock server to get the current time with the greatest accuracy available and update your franchise computer...


Platforms: Windows

IPC::PubSub is Perl module for Interprocess Publish/Subscribe channels. SYNOPSIS # A new message bus with the DBM::Deep backend # (Other possible backends include Memcached and PlainHash) my $bus = IPC::PubSub->new(DBM_Deep => /tmp/pubsub.db); # A channel is any arbitrary string my...


Platforms: *nix

Zoltan is an application that will display the weather and possibly give you words of wisdom... Or at least entertain you with his meaningless wit!


Platforms: Mac

Bexclock is an easy to use Atomic PC Clock Synchronizer, it can optionally run on startup allowing you to set and forget. Bexclock can be set to automatically close itself once your PC clock has been set so it will not take up any of your PC's memory space. Alternatively, you can run Bexclock...


Platforms: Windows

File::NFSLock is a Perl module to do NFS (or not) locking. SYNOPSIS use File::NFSLock qw(uncache); use Fcntl qw(LOCK_EX LOCK_NB); my $file = "somefile"; ### set up a lock - lasts until object looses scope if (my $lock = new File::NFSLock { file => $file, lock_type => LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB,...


Platforms: *nix

RPM::Make is a Perl module to cleanly generate an RPM. SYNOPSIS use RPM::Make; # The "Manifest": list of files that will comprise the software package. my @filelist=(tmproot/file1.txt, tmproot/file2.txt, tmproot/file3.txt, tmproot/file4.txt); my %doc; my %conf; my %confnoreplace; my...


Platforms: *nix

Peers is a distributed programming toolkit designed for building peer-to-peer systems. The toolkit is a hybrid language project which offers low level primitives for managing concurrency and communication. Using these primitives, complex P2P protocols and complete systems can be designed and...


Platforms: *nix

Journaled Files LIBrary allows you to perform atomic transactions on standard files. It supplies functions to commit and rollback (back-out) changes. Journaled files are normal files that you can browse and parse with standard tools. A journal (log) stores all transactional info. Whats New in...


Platforms: *nix