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MythTV is a "Personal Video Recorder", i.e. a computer-based video recorder. It supports pausing and rewinding live TV, multiple tuner cards, hardware or software video compression, onscreen program guides and a distributed architecture.

detex takes as input a TeX source file and strips the TeX commands. The result is output to stdout. This is useful if you need a pure ASCII version of a TeX/LaTeX file.

Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is a full port of the Apache Lucene Java project. There is a pure Ruby version included.

This module provides a plugin framework for displaying runtime information about your CGI::Application app in a popup window. A sample Timing plugin is provided to show how it works:

wmBinClock is a windowmaker applet that displays the current system time as a binary clock. You have to add up the bits to get the time. The clock has a 24 hour format.

debootstrap is a tool which will install a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already installed system. It doesn't require an installation CD, just access to a Debian repository. In FreeBSD, you can use debootstrap to install Debian into a subdirectory of your existing FreeBSD installation (i386 or amd64) and then run Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (i386 or amd64) or Debian Linux (i386) in a jail or chroot.

This is an implementation of thunks a la Scalar::Defer, but uses Data::Swap and assignment to $_[0] in order to leave a minimal trace of the thunk.

Date::Calc::Iterator objects are used to iterate over a range of dates, day by day or with a specified step.

List::Uniq extracts the unique elements of a list. This is a commonly re-written (or at least re-looked-up) idiom in Perl programs.

A really simple progress bar for things that take a while. Doing something: ########### The bar grows as things done. Fifty hash marks are printed altogether.