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TinyLIB is an emulation layer to make all platforms look the same. TinyLIB is very small and meant for game development. TinyLIB provides a subset of GLUT/OpenGL, OpenAL, BSD sockets, and the C standard library. Almost any platform has graphics, audio, and networking libraries. The problem is,... Platforms: *nix

HTML::WikiConverter::Dialects is a Perl module which contains a tutorial on how to add a dialect. SYNOPSIS # In your dialect module: package HTML::WikiConverter::MySlimWiki; use HTML::WikiConverter -dialect; rule b => { start => **, end => ** }; rule i => { start => //, end => // };... Platforms: *nix

IP Masquerade HOWTO project is a document describing how to set up IP Masq (NAT) for Linux systems. It contains instructions on understanding, configuring, and troubleshooting NAT or Network Address Translation for Linux. It covers topics such as IPTABLES, PORTFW, IPCHAINS, IPFWADM, stronger... Platforms: *nix

RetrospeKt is my attempt to make working with backups easier and more intuitive. The project is inspired by Apples "Time machine" backup system and is based on rsnapshot backup script. With Retrospect you can easily browse your folders (in konqueror) as they were at any previous backup point. A... Platforms: *nix

Bake is a small domain specific programming language for describing how to transform one file into another. Bake uses the typical topological sort, but has features that make describing this relatively easy. Bake has patterns, similar to make, but which are part of the dependency graph (unlike... Platforms: *nix

EmeraldMoo project is a series of patches to make LambdaMoo better. EmeraldMoo is a series of patches to LambdaMoo. It has three main purposes: To make LambdaMoo more modern and featureful, to make it a better RPG environment, and to make it a better virtual reality environment. A moo is a... Platforms: *nix

vars::global is a Perl module that tries to make global variables a little safer. SYNOPSIS # In the place/package where we want to create globals use vars::global create => qw( $foo @bar %baz ); # Add some more global symbols vars::global->create(qw( $hello @world %now )); # Somewhere... Platforms: *nix

Jaaa is short from JACK and ALSA Audio Analyser, is an audio signal generator and spectrum analyser designed to make accurate measurements. Frequency and Amplitude These two sets of buttons set the display view. One of these six buttons, or Bandw, Peak, or Noise discussed below, has an orange... Platforms: *nix

libping is a C library designed to allow a programmer to make ICMP_ECHO requests directly from a script or program. libpings functions return either boolean--is alive--or the round trip time in milliseconds. The library also includes support for "pinging" the following tcp/ip services: echo,... Platforms: *nix

GCJ::Cni::Examples is a Perl module with examples of how to use GCJs CNI interface to write Perl Modules in Java. EXAMPLES Writing Treaded modules in Java One benefit of using GCJ is that it takes advantage of POSIX threading. This is nice since Perls threading model is, shall we say, less... Platforms: *nix

GNUstep examples is a collection of programs that are meant to show programmers how to use GNUstep. GNUstep examples includes a calculator, a currency converter, finger, fractal, puzzle, hostaddress, and ink (a simple editor). Whats New in This Release: - Minor feature enhancements. Platforms: *nix

LiveJournal Quote is a Firefox extension that tires to make our communication in LJ more easy. It makes quotes. How does it works? 1) You can write in post-form tags [quote]Text[/quote] and on clicking the Send-button tags will be converted in html-quote (Div element) 2) You can also select... Platforms: *nix

Java::Import::Examples is an example of how to use Java::Import to call into Java classes. Making RMI calls from Perl One nice thing about Java is the extremely straight forward manner in which it allows you to make calls to remote objects residing on distant servers. Many people use this... Platforms: *nix

Mobile Web Proxy is a (CGI) tool to make more Web pages available from some mobile devices (cell phone Web browsers, etc.). When I began using my cell phones mobile web browser, one of the things I realized was that there were a lot of web pages that my cell phones web browser simply wouldnt... Platforms: *nix

taskbar-compiz is a modified taskbar applet for kicker to make it work with compiz. The work is inspired by kicker-compiz pager (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021) Please note: currently you cant change "Show windows from all desktops" settings while beryl is running, so... Platforms: *nix

libavg library is made for media presentations and installations that is meant to make Macromedia Director superflous. Installations are scripted using an XML-based layout language and Python for interaction. Multimedia on linux has made great progress. A few years ago, video support was very... Platforms: *nix

OpenOBEX is a project which aims to make an open source implementation of the Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol. OBEX is a session protocol and can best be described as a binary HTTP protocol. OBEX is optimised for ad-hoc wireless links and can be used to exchange all kind of objects like... Platforms: *nix

Linux ATA RAID HOWTO explains how to setup RedHat on a system with Promise Fasttrack RAID. The Linux ATA RAID HOWTO explains how to set up RAID 1 (disk mirroring) and then install Red Hat Linux on the mirror device. Promise Technology was one of the first companies to come up with... Platforms: *nix

Str is a C++ class that is designed to make strings almost as easy to work with as they are in languages like TCL or Python. The Str class has minimal outside dependencies, is implemented as a single source file, and is designed to be user-customized. Str also makes it simple to allocate fast... Platforms: *nix

GD::Graph::Polar is a Perl module to make polar graph using GD package. SYNOPSIS use GD::Graph::Polar; my $obj=GD::Graph::Polar->new(size=>480, radius=>100); $obj->addPoint (50=>25); $obj->addPoint_rad (50=>3.1415); $obj->addGeoPoint (75=>25); $obj->addGeoPoint_rad (75=>3.1415);... Platforms: *nix