Tripwire is a tool that aids system administrators and
users in monitoring a designated set of files for any changes.
Used with system files on a regular (e.g., daily) basis, Tripwire
can notify system administrators of corrupted or tampered files,
so damage control measures can be taken in a timely manner.
If "TRIPWIRE_FLOPPY" is set to "YES" in the environment or on the
"make" command line, this port will write the tripwire database to
a floppy disk, which should then be write-protected and used as a
reference for future runs. The diskette should be formatted and
present in the "A" drive before starting the "make install" step.
Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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.
MythTV requires tuner drivers which support the V4L standard.
Currently no official FreeBSD driver does so, but the latest version
of a beta version of the cxm driver is available from
http://usleepless.110mb.com/pvrxxx_port-10042007.tgz. Problems
have been reported with this port; if you use it, you should join
the FreeBSD-multimedia mailing list and report where appropriate.
Alpine is a screen-oriented message-handling tool for news, and POP, IMAP,
and local e-mail. In its default configuration it offers a limited set of
functions geared toward the novice user, but it also has a large list of
optional "power-user" and personal-preference features.
Alpine's basic feature set includes:
* View, Save, Export, Delete, Print, Reply and Forward messages.
Compose messages in a simple editor with word-wrap and a
spelling checker. Messages may be postponed for later completion.
* Selection and management of message folders.
* Address book to keep a list of long or frequently-used
addresses. Personal distribution lists may be defined.
Addresses may be taken into the address book from incoming mail
without retyping them.
* New mail checking/notification occurs automatically (configurable).
* On-line, context-sensitive help screens.
Alpine supports MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), an Internet
Standard for representing multipart and multimedia data in email.
3[APA3A] tiny proxy 3Proxy (pronounce it as "Zaraza tiny proxy") is really
tiny cross-platform (Win32&Unix) proxy servers set. It includes HTTP proxy
with HTTPS and FTP support, SOCKSv4/SOCKSv4.5/SOCKSv5 proxy, POP3 proxy,
TCP and UDP portmappers. You can use every proxy as a standalone program
(socks, proxy, tcppm, udppm, pop3p) or use combined program (3proxy).
Combined proxy additionally supports features like access control,
bandwidth limiting, limiting daily/weekly/monthly traffic amount, proxy
chaining, log rotation, sylog and ODBC logging, etc. It's created to be
small, simple (I'd like to say secure - but it's just a beta) and yet
functional. It may be compiled with Visual C or gcc. Native Win32 version
included in archive and supports installation as NT/2K/XP service.
Currently 3proxy is tested to work under Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP,
FreeBSD/i386, Linux/i386, Linux/Alpha. See Release Notes and Changes for
features list.
3proxy is FreeWare. It can be used under terms of GNU/GPL or under its own
license (please read License Agreement).
For licensing or commercial support please e-mail to 3proxy@3proxy.ru
Emacs major mode to create HTML files from Emacs buffers (in colour!)
This major mode will output the contents of an Emacs buffer as a
HTML file, preserving the colour attributes of that buffer.
This is a pretty elegant solution to produce nice listings of your
code in Erlang, C++, SML, Ruby (or whatever esoteric language you can
dig out a major mode for) to display on web sites.
As an example watch the ELISP code of this major mode
http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/htmlize.el.html
Because the colouring depends only on your major mode and perhaps
some individual settings (e.g. I prefer a dark background) you can
turn any Emacs buffer into HTML.
This module implements a scalable method of quickly propagating files
to a large number of servers in one or more locations via rsync or
scp.
This module and the included script, ccp, take a much more efficient
approach that is O(log n). Once the file(s) are been copied to a
remote server, that server will be promoted to be used as source
server for copying to remaining servers. Thus, the rate of transfer
increases exponentially rather than linearly.
Servers can be specified in groups (e.g. datacenter) to prevent
copying across groups. This maximizes the number of transfers done
over a local high-speed connection (LAN) while minimizing the number
of transfers over the WAN.
The number of multiple simultaneous transfers per source point is
configurable. The total number of simultaneously forked processes is
limited via Proc::Queue, and is currently hard coded to 32.
CGAL is a collaborative effort of several sites in Europe and Israel. The goal
is to make the most important of the solutions and methods developed in
computational geometry available to users in industry and academia in a C++
library. The goal is to provide easy access to useful, reliable geometric
algorithms.
The CGAL library contains:
* the Kernel with geometric primitives such as points, vectors, lines,
predicates for testing things such as relative positions of points, and
operations such as intersections and distance calculation.
* the Basic Library which is a collection of standard data structures and
geometric algorithms, such as convex hull in 2D/3D, (Delaunay)
triangulation in 2D/3D, planar map, polyhedron, smallest enclosing
circle, and multidimensional query structures.
* the Support Library which offers interfaces to other packages, e.g., for
visualisation, and I/O, and other support facilities.
numexpr - Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python and NumPy.
The numexpr package evaluates multiple-operator array expressions many times
faster than NumPy can. It accepts the expression as a string, analyzes it,
rewrites it more efficiently, and compiles it to faster Python code on the fly.
It's the next best thing to writing the expression in C and compiling it with a
specialized just-in-time (JIT) compiler, i.e. it does not require a compiler at
runtime.
Also, numexpr has support for the Intel VML (Vector Math Library) -- integrated
in Intel MKL (Math Kernel Library) --, allowing nice speed-ups when computing
transcendental functions (like trigonometrical, exponentials...) on top of
Intel-compatible platforms. This support also allows to use multiple cores in
your computations.
The Liquid Rescale plugin is an implementation of the content-aware
resizing by seam carving algorithm by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.
It aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving the
features of the picture, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important
parts of the picture. It can also be used to remove portions of the
picture in a consistent way.
It works both ways, but enlarging gives better results if done in
successive steps. It can use extra layers as masks to select which
features of the image should be preserved and which should be
discarded.
The plugin works on the active layer or floating selection. If a
selection is present, it is saved to a channel. If the layer has a
transparency mask, an option is given to select the behaviour
(apply/discard).
The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is
intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create,
and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with
.class). Classes are represented by objects which contain all the
symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code
instructions, in particular.
Such objects can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a
program (e.g. a class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file
again. An even more interesting application is the creation of classes
from scratch at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) may
be also useful if you want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine
(JVM) and the format of Java .class files.
BCEL is already being used successfully in several projects such as
compilers, optimizers, obsfuscators and analysis tools, the most
popular probably being the Xalan XSLT processor at Apache.