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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... Platforms: *nix

File::Find is a Perl module to traverse a directory tree. SYNOPSIS use File::Find; find(&wanted, @directories_to_search); sub wanted { ... } use File::Find; finddepth(&wanted, @directories_to_search); sub wanted { ... } use File::Find; find({ wanted => &process, follow => 1 }, .);... Platforms: *nix

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

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

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

mod_auth_cache is an Apache module transparently caches an authentication originally done by a different module. The aim of this module is to speed up complex authentication mechanisms, to reduce database traffic if authenticating thru a backend database and to implement some sort of... 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

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

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

ccovinstrument package contains instruments C/C++ code for test coverage analysis. SYNOPSIS ccovinstrument code.c > covcode.c ccovinstrument code.c [-f] -o covcode.c [-e errs] -f instrument fatal code as well as normal code Scans C/C++ source (before cpp) and inserts trip-wires in each... Platforms: *nix

ImageInfo is a free Java class to retrieve properties from image files. The following file formats are currently supported: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, PCX, IFF, RAS, PBM, PGM, PPM and PSD (read why TIFF is not included). ImageInfo can recognize these formats, and in addition determine image width,... 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

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

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

eArea is a simple cross-browser WYSIWYG text editor. It works on Explorer, Firefox/Mozila and Safari/Konqueror. eArea project even with OS X Dashboard widgets! If eArea comes across a browser it doesnt support (like Opera), it will display an ordinary < textarea > instead. How does it work?... Platforms: *nix

JChav is a way to see the change in performance of your Web application over time by running a benchmark test for each build you produce. JChav project is an Ant task that, when used in conjunction with the JMeter ant task, produces historic views of the performance of your application. Charts... Platforms: *nix

SMTarPit is a chrooted SMTP honeypot and tarpit. I wrote this program because I looked around the Internet for an SMTP Tarpit/Honeypot that was: written in Perl; and, was only an SMTP tarpit/honeypot - I couldnt find one. SMTarPit is a combined SMTP honey 7187 7187pot and tarpit released... Platforms: *nix

TRASHY is a way to write HTML code using only a few characters, reducing the amount of typing errors, space wasted, helping you to arrange code, and providing an easy way to avoid some common HTML mistakes (like a wrong sequence in closing tags). Why write the attrib height thousands of times... Platforms: *nix