Useful Resources

Activism Network is a Web-based system that allows activists or anyone else to share contacts, resources (files), events, email lists, and campaigns. etc. It uses Google Maps. It is similar to Friendster/MySpace, but more focussed on networking and less on the social aspect. This area is... Platforms: *nix

GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. It is written in C and includes the following widgets: GtkSheet, GtkPlot, GtkPlotCanvas, GtkItemEntry, GtkComboBox, GtkColorCombo, GtkBorderCombo, GtkFontCombo, GtkDirTree, GtkIconList, GtkFileList,... Platforms: *nix

wminet is a very useful dock app for monitoring internet connections to and from your computer. The number of connections can be filtered based on local and remote addresses and ports, on either tcp or udp. It can also display hostname and number of processes. This new version uses a lot less... Platforms: *nix

LibBand is a simple library wrapper written in assembly and C (but I plan to rewrite everything in C) useful if you want to limit the bandwidth used by a program. It simply overrides some libc functions, using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, and puts some pauses in the program to clamp the... Platforms: *nix

Tunnel4J project is a little utility for people who need to access resources behind firewalls via ssh connections. Consider it as a light replacement of just some features of a VPN. You can do exactly the same things with the command line ssh client; tunnel4j just exposes a nicer(???) GUI, and... Platforms: *nix

aardmail is a package with useful tools for different kinds of mail handling. All programs can be linked against dietlibc and should be working under UNIX and Windows. aardmail is known to compile and work under Linux, *BSD, IRIX, Solaris (gcc and Sun Studio), MacOS X and Windows (MingW and... Platforms: *nix

Bio::NEXUS::Block is a Perl module that provides useful functions for blocks in NEXUS file (parent class). SYNOPSIS This module is the super class of all NEXUS block classes. It is not used specifically from a program; in other words, you dont create a new Bio::NEXUS::Block object. Other... Platforms: *nix

GNOME Terminator project is an attempt to maximise useful space on a given desktop for terminals. I’m a sysadmin by trade, so I live in ssh sessions and thus terminals. An extra line here and there over all those hours seems like it’s worth trying for. NOTE: At least zsh doesn’t work in... Platforms: *nix

OctopuSsh is a Python, gtk2 and vte multiple ssh client, useful to manage a set of machines. The name was choosen by Paolo Didone, while discussing a new name for it since we needed to change it. In fact the first choice was MMA, standing for Multiple Machine Administration. But then we... Platforms: *nix

PDL::Transform::Cartography Perl module contains useful cartographic projections. SYNOPSIS # make a Mercator map of Earth use PDL::Transform::Cartography; $a = earth_coast(); $a = graticule(10,2)->glue(1,$a); $t = t_mercator; $w = pgwin(xs); $w->lines($t->apply($a)->clean_lines());... Platforms: *nix

PDL::MatrixOps Perl module contains some useful Matrix operations. SYNOPSIS $inv = $a->inv; $det = $a->det; ($lu,$perm,$par) = $a->lu_decomp; $x = lu_backsub($lu,$perm,$b); # solve $a x $x = $b PDL::MatrixOps is PDLs built-in matrix manipulation code. It contains utilities for many... Platforms: *nix

TN3270RG is a TCP/IP TN3270 gateway that dynamically assigns resources to a connection from a pool of available addresses. Features include an easy to use web interface for management and a PostgreSQL database backend. It is useful if you have a large number of machines connecting to a TN3270... Platforms: *nix

DAEMon Raco Libraries (DRLibs) is a collection of useful functions, objects, and routines for C++. Whats New in This Release: - This release adds new libraries to manage object lists: doublelist.dr.h, simplelist.dr.h, and sortedlist.dr.h.. Platforms: *nix

Rosetta::SeeAlso is a Perl module that contains external resources that you really ought to look at. INSTALLATION To install these modules, cd to the directory that contains all of the extracted distribution files, including this ReadMe file, and type the following: perl Makefile.PL make... Platforms: *nix

Email sends email to remote SMTP servers via the command line, which makes it useful in cron jobs. It will send to any RFC standard remote ESMTP server, and will allow you to encrypt, sign, and design your message on the fly. It has the capability to use signature files with dynamic options,... Platforms: *nix

Audio::TagLib::MPEG::File is an MPEG file class with some useful methods specific to MPEG. SYNOPSIS use Audio::TagLib::MPEG::File; my $i = Audio::TagLib::MPEG::File->new("sample file.mp3"); print $i->tag()->artist()->toCString(), "n"; # got artist This implements the generic... Platforms: *nix

Audio::TagLib::File is a file class with some useful methods for tag manipulation. This class is a basic file class with some methods that are particularly useful for tag editors. It has methods to take advantage of ByteVector and a binary search method for finding patterns in a file.... Platforms: *nix

AxisPHP is a library of useful PHP objects and routines. AxisPHP provides PHP objects for the creation of PostScript and PDF documents, objects for the handling of sessions and user accounts, and a variety of smaller useful objects and subroutines. PHP 4.0 or later is required to run... Platforms: *nix

RBLchk is a simple utility that checks an IP address with the most useful and reliable RBLs (real-time blackhole lists). Install Under the root account: make make install By default, rblchk will be installed into /usr/bin directory. Usage: rblchk 127.0.0.2 Whats New in This Release:... Platforms: *nix

Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX. Docutils project includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.. Platforms: *nix