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pingx is utility that uses the XNoOp(3x) call to see how fast your connection to your X server. Wonder whether your X performance is slower in a SSH tunnel? pingx can give you hard numbers so you can find out. It has an option to print out some details about the X server as well. Its also useful... Platforms: *nix

AEAE project is the Ajax Enhanced Asynchroneous Experience. USAGE: To use AEAE, you only got two things to write: The actual server task to do. For this just make a class that inherits from AEAE::Command, and simply implement the _doIt() method. See the AEAE::ComandExample :... Platforms: *nix

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI. I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues... Platforms: *nix

Papercut NNTP Server is a news server written in 100% pure Python. It is intended to be extensible to the point where people can develop their own plug-ins and by that integrate the NNTP protocol to their applications. The server is compliant with most of the RFC0977 standards (when they make... Platforms: *nix

Devel::TraceFuncs is a Perl module with trace function calls as they happen. SYNOPSIS Usage: require Devel::TraceFuncs; max_trace_depth 5; trace_file "foo.out"; trace_file $file_handle; sub foo { IN(my $f, "a message"); DEBUG "hellooo!"; } Devel::TraceFuncs provides utilities to... Platforms: *nix

DSSH was written as a direct replacement for OpenSSH client for our use. The project adds SSH over SSH tuneling capabilities (for example to log in to network which is hidden by firewall), scripting support (using Groovy), advanced agent (which allows storing of passwords) and "su -" interactive... Platforms: *nix

Alerttail executes actions when "some text" has been written to a file.This software tails a file and when a line matches some text pattern alerttail will execute a list of actions defined on it's own configuration file.Imagine you want to be warned when some text is written to a log file, you... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris

fdmf is portable perl/C software for finding pairs of music files in a collection that are likely to contain the same music. It works on the music itself, not on the filename, tags, or headers. The project uses an audio fingerprint, or perceptual hash to recognize the duplicate files. It is... Platforms: *nix

GNU Gengen (GENerator GENerator) is a tool that, starting from a parameterized text, called template, generates a text generator that can substitute parameters with values. At the moment Gengen can generate C++ or C code; however other target languages are under development (e.g., Java). This... Platforms: *nix

MOSIXVIEW is a GUI for managing openMosix-Cluster. Everybody is invited to download and use it (at your own risk and responsibility). You can adjust the main parameters of your openMosix-Cluster. It is a front-end for the "mosctl"-Commands. The "speed"of each node can be changed whith... Platforms: *nix

The libdisasm library provides basic disassembly of Intel x86 instructions from a binary stream. The intent is to provide an easy to use disassembler which can be called from any application; the disassembly can be produced in AT&T syntax and Intel syntax, as well as in an intermediate format... Platforms: *nix

mod_lisp Apache module is a module to easily write web applications in Lisp. mod_lisp talk from Apache to lisp processes by sockets with a very straightforward protocol to handle a request. It now reuses the Apache to Lisp sockets for improved performance. Future versions will probably be more... Platforms: *nix

Kunzip is a free (but not opensource) library for decompressing ZIP archives. Kunzip started out as a test program I wrote for decompressing .zip files through a command line program. I eventually added hooks to make it a DLL that can be used from Windows programs. It is also possible to... Platforms: *nix

Class::XML is a Perl module for simple XML Abstraction. SYNOPSIS package Foo; use base qw/Class::XML/; __PACKAGE__->has_attributes(qw/length colour/); __PACKAGE__->has_child(bar => Bar); package Bar; use base qw/Class::XML/; __PACKAGE__->has_parent(foo);... Platforms: *nix

BORG is a combination calendar and task tracking system. The calendar supports simple todos. The Task Tracker goes way beyond todos. BORG is basically meant to be a small self-contained Java application that you can run locally. Many users run BORG Calendar and Task Tracker from a thumb drive.... Platforms: *nix

Sub::Timebound is a Perl extension for timebound computations. SYNOPSIS use Sub::Timebound; sub fun { my $i = shift; if ($i =~ /7$/) { die "Simulated internal errorn"; } while ($i) { $i--; } return "All is well"; } my $x = timeboundretry(10, 3, 5, &fun, 10); ### Returns { value... Platforms: *nix

Cosmic Assault is a retro space shooter game. I wrote Cosmic Assault as my little homage to my coming of age in the early 1980s. It started life as one of the tutorials supplied for teaching programmers the fundamentals of pygame and I used that tutorial to hack together a little shoot-em-up... Platforms: *nix

Knamer program is a simple little utility for batch renaming files. At first, I wrote Knamer to meet my own needs, which were mostly renaming photographs and TV episodes. Later it expanded to include more and more features that hopefully others will find useful. Believe it or not, I had Knamer... Platforms: *nix

Voxpak is a gui for playing, recording, editing, renaming etc. voice and fax messages. Includes scripts for popping up sticky-notes or requesters with caller id info. Renames voice/fax messages to date+callerid. Written in python and pyGTK. It includes a small Kaptain version for KDE. Voxpak is... Platforms: *nix

C++ XML Objects is a framework for persisting hierarchies of C++ objects to and from XML. Boost, The STL and Patterns are used extensively. All platforms which support Boost will be supported. Sometimes there is a need to save hierarchies of C++ objects to a file (or DB etc), and then retrieve... Platforms: *nix