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I was trying out modifications of the LMS algorithm so that it will converge faster and the mean square error will also be smaller. Getting to one of the drawbacks of LMS, that it has only one controllable parameter "mu", the selection of whose value will be the most critical from design point of... Platforms: Matlab

The whole thing started when I was trying out winamp3, the player everybody hates because of it's enourmous memory consumption. I didn't like it too much either, but it had one thing that I liked: the library browser (or whatever they called it). After switching to using Linux exclusively (thanks... Platforms: *nix

FREP was born out of a need I had to keep a cluster of server synchronized to a central location with instant file replication (one-way replication). I realized that polling for file changes was going to be out of the question since the application would get progressively slower the more files... Platforms: *nix

Winstone is a servlet container that was written out of a desire to provide servlet functionality. Winstone works without the bloat that full J2EE compliance introduces. It is not intended to be a completely fully functional J2EE style servlet container (by this I mean supporting extraneous... Platforms: *nix

The asterisk outlook dialer was born out of a need for a secure way to dial from MSOutlook via an asterisk server. Solutions we examined in the market were either not secure due to the fact that the Asterisk Manager password needed to be keyed into the Outlook component or were too bulky for what... Platforms: Windows

Babylon Search Online Demo provides a Firefox toolbar for trying out Babylon dictionaries and Wikipedia via the Web. Wikipedia search results are automatically shown as an easy-to-read summary, which is very convenient. Babylon is a multilingual Windows application (sold separately) from... Platforms: *nix

rinse software was born out of a frustration with the currently available solutions for installing minimal copies of RPM-based distributions. The need to perform simple chroot() installations of other distributions is not common, but the ability to do such a thing is very useful when it comes... Platforms: *nix

CIDR Calculator was designed out of a desire to streamline CIDR calculations by creating a simple, easy to use tool for performing CIDR network block math and network masks with complete confidence.?? A cornerstone of worldwide IPv4 network com Platforms: Mac

The emails contain a simple listing of links, grouped by node type, to nodes posted on the site since the last time a digest newsletter was sent out. The module is an add-on for the Simplenews module.InstallationUnpack in your modules folder (usually /sites/all/modules/) and enable under... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

The emails contain a simple listing of links, grouped by node type, to nodes posted on the site since the last time a digest newsletter was sent out. The module is an add-on for the Simplenews module.InstallationUnpack in your modules folder (usually /sites/all/modules/) and enable under... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

This project was created out of a need for a very simple small-scale mailing list that does NOT require a database. It utilizes phpMailer for the messaging system (included.) Integration is very clean and easy. Features: - You can completely configure it to use your smtp server. This includes... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

This program was written out of frustration with larger music players. Pretty much all I've ever wanted out of a music player was one that played random albums by picking a random artist, then picking a random album, then playing that album, then picking another random artist. For some... Platforms: *nix

Simple Multi User Out-Of-Office-Responder project is a vacation email responder that can be easily plugged into simple SMTP servers with procmail. We have a small e-mail server running on Debian GNU/Linux. All users are local (in /etc/passwd), have mail delivered via procmail to mailboxes 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

gBootRoot makes the construction and development of distributions fun and simple with its Root Methods (Yard) and user-mode-linux test bed. Finish the product with a Boot Method (2-disk compression supported). Normal (non-root) users can make root filesystems and boot disks. It includes the... 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

DBIx::Timeout is a Perl module that provides a safe method of timing out DBI requests. The method described in the DBI documentation uses unsafe signals, which may cause memory corruption. DBIx::Timeout instead uses a separate timeout process. The problem with using POSIX sigaction() is that... Platforms: *nix

A useful widget for trying out regular expressions for JavaScript, and other languages (such as Sed, Ruby, or Perl). It has a simple user interface, case insensitive switch, global switch, and match index array view. Platforms: Mac

Centurion is a game of tactical ground warfare set in the Renegade Legion universe of 6830, published by FASA Corporation in 1991. The background centers on the Commonwealth's fight to resist the Terran Overlord Government's campaign to conquer the entire galaxy, one planet at a time.The actual... Platforms: Matlab

If you can imagine a game that combines Pictionary and Scrabble, you would get PictoWords, an enjoyable word Mac game made for all ages. Given pictures and letters to form words will give your mental fitness a good workout. The game board is a bright, modernistic and steely blue surface. The... Platforms: Mac