As its name suggests, picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation pro-
gram. It is, in principle, very much like minicom(1) , only it's "pico"
instead of "mini"! It was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem
configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite
well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention in
PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open terminal
window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove useful in
many other similar tasks.
It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you
can't display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user
via an application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts
you need aren't accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters
as "???????" or "\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the
user who actually wants to read what the text says.
What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, unidecode(...) that takes
Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters.
An open-source, distributed, time series database with no external
dependencies. InfluxDB is the new home for all of your metrics,
events, and analytics.
InfluxDB is a time series, metrics, and analytics database. It'written
in Go and has no external dependencies. That means once you install
it there's nothing else to manage (like Redis, ZooKeeper, HBase,
or whatever).
InfluxDB is targeted at use cases for DevOps, metrics, sensor data,
and real-time analytics. It arose from our need for a database like
this on more than a few previous products we' built. You can read
more about our jurney from SaaS application to open source time
series database.
Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,
structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed
systems technologies from Dynamo and the data model from Google's
BigTable. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is eventually consistent. Like
BigTable, Cassandra provides a ColumnFamily-based data model richer
than typical key/value systems.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed
by one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo. In a lot of ways you can
think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at
Facebook but is still under heavy development.
This module is useful if you manage data which has a lot of on/off attributes
like active, inactive, deleted, important, etc. If you do not want to add an
extra column for each of those attributes you can easily specify them in one
integer column.
A bit field is a way to store multiple bit values on one integer field.
The main benefit from this module is that you can add additional attributes
to your result class whithout the need to deploy or change the schema on the
data base.
This is South, intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
South is:
* Intelligent; it knows if you've missed out a migration or two
* Database independent, so there's no hassle if you need to move databases.
* Easy; it can write migrations for you, and it takes about a minute to
convert your app over to use South.
* Designed for a pluggable Django world; you can declare dependencies
between apps so they all migrate together correctly, and you can still
use syncdb for your non-migrated apps without it interfering.
* Useful for data too; you can write migrations to transform legacy data.
* Better (we think, anyway) than the alternatives.
Slony-I is enterprise-level "master to multiple slaves"
replication system with cascading and failover.
The big picture for the development of Slony-I is to build
a master-slave system that includes all features and
capabilities needed to replicate large databases to a
reasonably limited number of slave systems.
Slony-I is developed as a system for data centers and backup
sites, where the normal mode of operation is that all nodes
are available.
Differences from 1.2 stream
- Removal of TABLE ADD KEY
- It drops all support for databases prior to PostgreSQL version 8.3.
Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as
weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing
many powerful features, including:
* Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom
journals (systems based off these are also supported, including WordPress
and Drupal)
* The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries
* Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting
* Offline composition and editing
* Automatic recovery in the event of a crash
* Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and
MovableType categories
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple
and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and
information you deal with every day.
The key to Tomboy's usefulness lies in the ability to relate notes and
ideas together. Using a WikiWiki-like linking system, organizing ideas
is as simple as typing a name. Branching an idea off is easy as pressing
the Link button. And links between your ideas won't break, even when
renaming and reorganizing them.
Recoll is a personal full text search package. It is based on a very
strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and
feature-rich interface.
Features:
* Free, GPL license.
* Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server,
desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
* Will run on most Unix-based systems
* Qt 4 GUI, plus command line.
* Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments.
Transparently handles decompression (gzip, bzip2).
* Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity,
wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
* Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
* Extensive documentation, with a complete user manual and manual pages
for each command.