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Boot Timer is a small tool that lets you control the time it takes to start up Windows. It requires no installation, just double click on the runnable file and, each time you restart the PC, it shows you the time Windows dedicates to the different applications and windows. It doesn+t time how... Platforms: Windows

Create a bootable CD with Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server CD and a full set of DiskInternals recovery tools. Recover your hard drive by booting into familiar operating system with handy access to data recovery tools. Computer crashes, data corruption and hard disk failures have happened to many... Platforms: Windows

bicl is a tool for editing the built-in command line boot arguments in binary files like the PPC64 Linux compressed kernel image and the PPC64 Xen compressed hypervisor boot image. he boot argument processing for powerpc Xen is much less complex than it may appear. Assuming that the Simplify... Platforms: *nix

Borg Live is a bootable CD-Rom containing a GNU/Linux operative system, that permits you to boot directly from the CD, without the need of an hard disk installation . The system is based on Slax , the Slackware Linux Live CD.. Platforms: *nix

xbill is a game in which you have to save the world from the evil hacker known only as Bill. xbill is a game that tests your reflexes as you seek out and destroy all forms of Bill, establish a new operating system that is very popular throughout the universe, and boldly go where no geek has... Platforms: *nix

boottool and Linux::Bootloader provide a generic interface for detecting the installed bootloader, updating bootloader configuration files, and performing boot-once to a given kernel. Supported bootloaders include grub, yaboot, lilo and elilo. There are essentially four major pieces in this... Platforms: *nix

Upstart project is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. It is being developed for the Ubuntu distribution, but is intended to be suitable for... Platforms: *nix

Dariks Boot and Nuke, known as DBAN, is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.. Platforms: *nix

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest... Platforms: *nix

CAD::Drawing is a Perl module with methods to create, load, and save vector graphics. SYNOPSIS The primary intention of this module is to provide high-level operations for creating, loading, saving and manipulating vector graphics without having to be overly concerned about smile floormats.... Platforms: *nix

CAD::Drawing::IO::PgDB is a Perl module with PostgreSQL save / load methods. This module is considered pre-ALPHA and under-documented. Its use is strongly discouraged except under experimental conditions. Particularly susceptible to change will be the table structure of the database, which... Platforms: *nix

CAD::Drawing::IO::Compressed is a Perl module to load and save compressed data. Requisite Plug-in Functions See CAD::Drawing::IO for a description of the plug-in architecture. check_type Returns true if $type is "compressed" or $filename has a ".gz" extension (probably the best way.)... Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

Laptops which use dynamic IP address assignment via DHCP have the problem that the boot process is much longer when no wire is connected to the Ethernet card. This is because the startup scripts have to wait for the DHCP request to time out. ethwireck can detect if the physical layer of the... Platforms: *nix

This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written. Platforms: *nix

BootRoot creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd image. The initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2) filesystem. The root filesystem isnt made by this program, but there lots of compressed filesytems out there to use. You can use a bzip2... Platforms: *nix

Missile Command project is a game in which you have to save your city from nuclear doom. Missile Command is a clone of the Atari save-your-city-from-impending-nuclear-doom game.. A Linux port of the save-your-city-from-impending-nuclear-doom game. Platforms: *nix

beam-back is a simple Python script to save streaming MP3 data. This script has been tested with my.mp3.com and www.shoutcast.com. If you want to make an mp3 for an infinite stream m3u url, start beam-back with the option -v: xterm -e beam-back.py -v %s Verbose mode will tell you how much data... Platforms: *nix

Graph::Writer::DrGeo can save the graph output DrGeo scheme script. SYNOPSIS my $g = new Graph; # Add some vertices/edges to $g my $writer = Graph::Writer::DrGeo->new(); $writer->write_graph($g,"graph.scm"); # graph.scm can be evaluated and rendered with Dr.Geo Dr. Geo is a GTK... Platforms: *nix

SLAMPP is a generic linux distribution which can boot and run directly off CD-ROM and has possibility to be installed onto harddisk. SLAMPP Live CD is designed to be used as an instant home server. Just like another linux live CD available at this moment, SLAMPP gives a linux newbie a chance to... Platforms: *nix