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The program Socket implements access to TCP sockets from shell level. First written for the need to open a server socket and read and write to the socket interactively for testing purposes, it quickly evolved into a generic tool providing the socket interface for shell script and interactive use. Please send any comments, suggestions, bug reports etc. to me: Juergen Nickelsen <jn@berlin.snafu.de>

This is the port of scanbuttond, an utility to monitor the various buttons found on many modern scanners which are intended to trigger certain actions like copying, faxing or mailing the scanned document. This daemon queries the scanner button state several times per second via libusb and if it detects that a button is pressed it runs a shell script with the button number as an argument. The supported scanner backends currently are: epson, niash, plustek, snapscan

Modern hard drives allow to set the amount of time a hard disk is allowed to spend recovering from a read or write error. This feature is called ERC (error recovery control, usually in Seagate), TLER (time-limited error recovery, usually on Western Digital) or CCLT (command completion time limit, usually on Samsung or Hitachi). This rc.d script allows to set these valus on system startup to tune disks for RAID usage.

shim is a trivial EFI application that, when run, attempts to open and execute another application. It will initially attempt to do this via the standard EFI LoadImage() and StartImage() calls. If these fail (because secure boot is enabled and the binary is not signed with an appropriate key, for instance) it will then validate the binary against a built-in certificate. If this succeeds and if the binary or signing key are not blacklisted then shim will relocate and execute the binary.

Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. The filesystem is currently stable, and has been tested on PowerPC, i586, Sparc and ARM architectures. squashfs-tools are the set of tools to manipulate squashfs images.

KDiskFree displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, floppy and CD/DVD drives, etc.) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point. It also allows you to mount and unmount drives and view them in a file manager. KDiskFree is similar to the Systemsettings Partitions module, but takes up less screen space. It is useful if you want to keep a KDiskFree window available at all times.

'userneu' is a Perl script that parses a list of usernames and additional information (such as the real name or other information to be put in the GECOS field in /etc/passwd) and creates Unix accounts and (if desired) Samba accounts as well. If the script stumbles upon duplicate user names it can append random characters to the username until it fits. -Andreas Fehlner fehlner@gmx.de

Zetaback ZFS backup and recovery management system. Zetaback is a thin-agent based ZFS backup tool. It is designed to: * run from a central host * scan clients for new ZFS filesystems * manage varying desired backup intervals (per host) for o full backups o incremental backups * maintain varying retention policies (per host) * summarize existing backups * restore any host:fs backup at any point in time to any target host https://labs.omniti.com/trac/zetaback

The bibutils program set interconverts between various bibliography formats using a common MODS-format XML intermediate. For example, one can convert RIS-format files to Bibtex by doing two transformations: RIS->MODS->Bibtex. By using a common intermediate for N formats, only 2N programs are required and not N^2-N. These programs operate on the command line and are styled after standard UNIX-like filters.

This is a program for viewing RTF and MS Word 97 documents. It produces plain text output and can optionally convert some non-standard characters into TeX control sequences. It has rudimentary table handling in TeX mode. Also included are: - wordview, a small GUI frontend to catdoc that works with Tcl/Tk 7.6 and up; - xls2csv, which converts Excel spreadsheets to plain text files with CSV (comma-separated value) lines; and - catppt, which extracts text from PowerPoint files.