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About: EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. It was originally built upon the ircII-2.6 client and has maintained faithfulness to remain current up to the 2.8.2 release. EPIC is somewhat larger than the stock client (24%), but that is mostly because of the multitude of new features, the dual ANSI/K&R compliant function headers, and the large amount of re-written code in an attempt to make ircii faster, more efficient, and more powerful. Changes: Fix damage that might be caused by dropping nicks in names reply handler and add $info(v), returns "epic4 pre2 004" to indicate general version info.
About: Psiconv is a file conversion utility that converts between Psion 5(MX) files and more commonly-used Linux file formats. It can read and write Psion Word, TextEd, Sketch, MBM, and Clipart files, and outputs HTML 3.2, HTML 4, ASCII, and almost any graphical format. The libpsiconv library can also read Sheet files for use in other programs. Included is full documentation on several Psion 5(MX) file formats. This information is not available from Psion (it has been reverse-engineered from Psion files), and it's free for anybody to use. Changes: (since 0.1.0) Much improved file formats documentation. Word file now completely read except for Text Substitution Section (which is unimportant for HTML generation). Much better HTML output, improved progress and debug reports.
About: The WBI Developer Kit provides a convenient and flexible API for programming intermediaries on the web. In simple terms, an intermediary is a programmable proxy. More precisely, intermediaries are computational entities that lie along the HTTP stream and are programmed to tailor, customize, personalize, or otherwise enhance data as they flow along the stream. A caching web proxy is a simple example of an HTTP intermediary. Intermediary-based programming is particularly useful if you want to add functionality to a system but cannot modify the data producer (e.g., server or database) or the data consumer (e.g., browser). WBI is a way to quickly and easily build intermediary applications. Changes: Initial release
About: lm_sensors provides essential tools for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices. It contains a library for sensors access (libsensors), a command-line tool for sensor reporting (sensors), and a daemon (sensord). It also contains scripts for sensor hardware identification and fan speed control. Changes: Support for Matrix-Orbital LCD and VFD displays using their 2-wire I2C/SMBus interface. Better compatibility with 2.0.x and 2.3.x kernels. Fixes for the Gl518SM driver. This will probably be the last 2.3.x release before some major distribution restructuring in preparation for possible integration into the mainstream Linux kernel.
About: Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionally attached to a TCP/IP network. You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell: a single statement can result in many hundreds of operations being performed on multiple hosts. Cfengine is good at performing a lot of common system administration tasks, and allows you to build on its strengths with your own scripts.
About: Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, terminal emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display). It will display HTML documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running HTTP, HTTPS, gopher, FTP, WAIS, NNTP, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270, or rlogin accounts.
About: dnsjava is an implementation of the DNS protocol in Java. It supports all of the common record types. dnsjava provides both high and low level access to the resolver. The high level functions perform queries for records of a given name, type, and class, and return an array of records. A cache is used to reduce the number of queries sent. The low level functions allow direct manipulation of dns messages and records, as well as allowing additional resolver properties to be set. A 'dig' clone, dynamic update program, and basic server are also included. Extensions to the DNS protocol are supported as well (DNSSEC, TSIG, EDNS0). Changes: packages conform to java naming standard, cache uses round-robin, update client improvements, more documentation, zone file parser understands more directives, multiline record parsing, LOC and KX records, lots of bug fixes
About: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network. Changes: This is a release candidate. We're running it everywhere locally. Its principal change from T6B is in the way it handles single-zone reloads. Highlights vs. BIND 8.2: Bug fixes, especially to DNSSEC, TSIG, IXFR, and selective forwarding. Portability improvements and lint removal. Use best SOA rather than first-better when selecting an AXFR master. $TTL now accepts symbolic time values (such as "$TTL 1h30m"). "ndc reload" now accepts a zone argument, for single-zone reloads. ndc is better behaved; is verbose or quiet when appropriate. event and error reporting improvements.
About: htnews is a highly configurable email robot for adding news items to a webpage. All one has to do is to send an email to a special adress. htnews supports templates, multiple configurations and a basic authentication system. Changes: htnews can now translate newlines and tabs to correct html.
About: Diald manages network links, particularly on-demand links such as dial-up SLIP or PPP. It can also be used to manage and/or monitor any network interface. Diald monitors traffic on the link and makes intelligent (and highly configurable) decisions as to when the link should be brought up or taken down. The included control program, dctrl, runs on any system with Tcl/Tk (yes, even Windows) and allows diald to be controlled and monitored remotely.
About: Astronomy for fun (education, science, whatever). Nightfall is an interactive application to simulate eclipsing binary stars, and to produce animated views, synthetic lightcurves and more. Takes into account the non-spherical shape of close binary stars, mutual reflection, and some other effects. Comes with documentation, on-line help, and lots of observational data of real binary stars. Supports the Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it. Changes: Fixed and improved session management, added support for relocation of data files after installation, and a few more configure options.
About: asmon is a wharfable/dockable application for Linux and Solaris that displays meters detailing CPU, memory, swap, and X mem usage. Also included the exact numbers for load average, mem, swap, and X. Developed to use very little CPU time itself. Changes: Added support for high load averages and uptimes, fixed several graphics glitches
About: The HTML::Template module attempts to make using HTML templates simple and natural. It extends standard HTML with a few new tags for variables, loops, if/else blocks and includes. A file written with HTML and these new tags is called a template. Using this module you fill in the values for the variables and loops declared in the template. This allows you to seperate design (the HTML) from the data, which you generate in the Perl script. While there are many other HTML template systems available, this module is simple and fast. It doesn't try to reinvent Perl CGI, it just augments HTML with a few new and very useful abilities. Changes: Fixed cacheing - under certain conditions it was totally broken. Numerous small bug fixes and optimizations.
About: Linefeed is a GTK graphical utility which offer an easy way to convert DOS text files to UNIX text files by removing all unwanted carriage return characters. Changes: First release.
About: Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some modules written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more. Changes: Sketch uses GTK instead of Tk now and has a multi-document interface
About: TkDVI is a DVI previewer built with the Tcl/Tk toolkit. It can use multiple windows to display multiple pages at the same time (which can come from multiple DVI files sharing a common font repository). Each window can show either a single page, two facing pages (as in a book) or sixteen reduced pages in the space of one, to check page breaks and positioning of floating items. TkDVI supports many features from xdvi, such as a magnification glass, but also adds interesting stuff like a gv-like page selector and a `rubber line' for measuring distances. TkDVI is based on a reusable Tk `image type' for DVI files which can easily be incorporated in other programs, and it is straightforward to customize and extend TkDVI itself.
About: glFtpD is a multi-platform FTP daemon that has numerous features and is easy to setup and use.
About: Cajun is a program that allows you to turn any computer into a massive audio jukebox for your car or home. It uses LCD displays/keypads, and supports infrared remote controls. Soundcard output is delivered to your (car or home) stereo for amplification. The software supports a playlist and shuffle mode. Changes: Small boot-time problem for IRman corrected.
About: mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1). It is based on the SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL and supports all SSL/TLS related functionality, including RSA and DSA/DH cipher support, X.509 CRL checking, etc. Additionally it provides special Apache related facilities like DBM and shared memory based inter-process SSL session caching. per-URL SSL session renegotiations, DSO support, etc. Changes: Besides the regular bugfixes this version provides the new optimized SSL renegotiation support and the ability to retrieve session cache status information via mod_status.
About: Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user status, basic/extended user info, adding/editing users from within the GUI, user history, user groups, and new user registration. All commands and information are available through a simple and convenient tab dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ and comes with a GUI plugin using the Qt widget set. Other plugins are also available, like basic MSN support. Changes: Added USE_FIFO option to config.h to disable the licq fifo if it's causing problems.
About: glFtpD is a multi-platform FTP daemon that has numerous features and is easy to setup and use.
About: Gnofin is a light-weight personal finance application for GNOME. It is designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. Features include multilevel undo and redo, cut/copy/paste, QIF and CBB import, and support for mixed local and foreign currency accounts. Changes: Gnofin should be better behaved when LC_ALL is defined, although i18n support is not complete. This release also includes minor cleanups and enhancements to the user interface. The date field, for example, is now fully synchronized with the calendar widget.
About: Pinfo is a hypertext info file viewer with a user interface similar to lynx. It is based on curses/ncurses, and can handle info pages as well as man pages. It also features regexp searching and user-defined colors/keys. Changes: Fixed highlighting code (the handling of \t's), bug in `*note:' detection, nonblack background in displaying contents of text, done some simple search highlighting, added FILTER-0xB7 config option, option for enabling quit confirmation at exit (as in lynx), option for clearing screen at exit, support for lightbackground, support for multi-dired info dir entries and PgDn works now more `traditionally' -- at end the last link is selected.
About: Swatch was originally written to actively monitor messages as they were written to a log file via the UNIX syslog utility. It has multiple methods of alarming, both visually and by triggering events. The perfect tools for a master loghost. It is known to work flawlessly on Linux (RH5), BSDI, and Solaris 2.6 (patched).
About: Qt is a comprehensive, object-oriented development framework that enables development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and server-side applications. When you implement a program with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11), Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows NT/9x/2000/XP by simply compiling the source code for the platform you want. Qt is the basis for the KDE desktop environment, and is also used in numerous commercial applications such as Google Earth, Skype for Linux, and Adobe Photoshop Elements. Changes: If you can't find this version at the Download location, get it here.
About: Hyperplay is a GTK+ multimedia authoring engine designed for graphical adventure-style games. It plays a pre-compiled script that is made of several scenes, and can keep its state in a save file. Hyperplay uses the PNG format for graphical images that can be layed on the frame window. Changes: Non-rectangular (polygonal) shape for sensitive area and mouse button handling are added. Visual part is now mostly working, but audio part is not functional yet. Scripts are played silently.
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