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Have you ever wondered why your machine runs so much faster right after you reboot? Most of the time it's due to resources not being properly freed, and which couldn't be easily reclaimed without rebooting. MaxMem passively monitors your systems memory and allows you to customize it for maximum...

The registry files in an NT-based system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. Use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry...

MPEG4 Watcher is a small, free utility that lets you view files in MPEG4 (MP4) format. Many times this type of file can+t be played correctly, above all in DivX or Xvid players, due to the fact that the file doesn+t have the correct bitstream packet, or it isn+t installed in the correct...


Platforms: Windows

Pick pixel colors as HTML, HEX or RGB values. Are you designing a Web page, and need to match borders or background color against a picture? Sure you can open that picture in a graphic editor, pick a color and convert it to the format accepted by HTML standard. But why bother? Let SI ColorPicker...


Platforms: Windows

Your Free Registry Cleaner is a software that makes your computer run smoother and faster. How does Registry Cleaner achieve this? Your Free Registry Cleaner achieves this by cleaning and fixing the registry. Registry is a database where Windows and programs store their data. Badly written...


Platforms: Windows

When developing or testing software, there are times when you need to reset a file's date and time created, last modified, and/or last accessed. FileTouch modifies file date/times on individual files, or sets of files. Simply run the single executable (no install necessary), fill out the form,...


Platforms: Windows

mod_access_referer is a module for the Apache HTTP Server that provides access control based on "Referer" HTTP header content. Why is mod_access_referer useful? Basically, it allow or deny the access based on what page is shown in the Web browser, which means that if you publish a document...


Platforms: *nix

Music::Scales can supply necessary notes / offsets for musical scales. SYNOPSIS use Music::Scales; my @maj = get_scale_notes(Eb); # defaults to major print join(" ",@maj); # "Eb F G Ab Bb C D" my @blues = get_scale_nums(bl); # bl,blu,blue,blues print join(" ",@blues); # "0 3 5 6 7 10"...


Platforms: *nix

ripmake is a fully automatic command line ripping makefile generator for transcode. The idea of ripmake is to write a tool which automatically (i.e. with as few user interaction as possible) selects the best parameters for a given ripping task. It should inspect the source (e.g. a DVD or an AVI...


Platforms: *nix

The aim of this experimental Linux distribution is to provide to RKC students andto the student population at large an operating system which is easy to install and use and which provides an alternative to the traditional commercial operating systems ;) Why Slackware as a base? As they...


Platforms: *nix

WMMenu project provide a popup menu of icons for WindowMaker like in AfterStep, as a dockable application. It is not as powerful as there is only one menu level, but I think it is sufficient, since you can make multiple separate menus. The program can be run more than once at the same time,...


Platforms: *nix

Fwctl is a Perl module to configure the Linux kernel packet filtering firewall. SYNOPSIS use Fwctl; my $fwctl = new Fwctl( %opts ); $fwctl->dump_acct; $fwctl->reset_fw; $fwctl->configure; Fwctl is a module to configure the Linux kernel packet filtering firewall using higher level...


Platforms: *nix

SNAKES is a Python library that provides all then necessary to define and execute many sorts of Petri nets, in particular those of the PBC and M-nets family. Its main aim is to be a general Petri net library, being able to cope with most Petri nets models, and providing the researcher with a tool...


Platforms: *nix

Automated Linux From Scratch (ALFS) is a project that creates the generic framework for an extendable system builder and package installer. Why would I want to use ALFS? After having gone through the LFS and BLFS books more than 2 or 3 times, you will quickly appreciate the ability to...


Platforms: *nix

SPWrapper project analyzes Oracle database system tables, finds out parameter names and types, and writes the Java code necessary for calling stored procedures. Do you ever needed to use stored procedures from java code? Perhaps you had to write first the stored procedure, then you had to write...


Platforms: *nix

Parallel Bladeenc is a true parallel version of the Bladeenc MP3 encoder; it distributes work across CPUs to speed up MP3 encoding. It uses the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for parallelization across SMPs and/or multiple machines. Hence, if you have a 4-way SMP, you can encode your MP3s about...


Platforms: *nix

instool is a small installation program that will install tar.gz packages and create uninstall information for later use. It can also read makefiles and create uninstall files for a make install operation. Packages installed with instool can be uninstalled at any time. Uninstall packages can...


Platforms: *nix

Make-Debian-X11 is an add-on which makes a template with the necessary replacement files for gBootRoots Yard Method. The root filesystem created from the template is user-mode-linux ready and includes X11, making it possible to run gBootRoot from within its own creation..


Platforms: *nix

The Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine also known as ARSE, is a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthetise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound. The ARSE consists in two main parts, a spectrographer with a base-2...


Platforms: *nix

Hafiye is a POSIX-compliant, customizable TCP/IP packet sniffer. When I looked at the source code for various famous sniffers, Ive noticed that they all had all seperate .C files for interpreting various protocols. Why not have a sniffer that can understand user-supplied protocol details? Here it...


Platforms: *nix