Xtacy, a Graphics Hack for X11 windows
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"Wow! This is better than snorting caffeine!" --Neil Braun
Xtacy is a graphics hack which I've been, well, hacking on, for 2 or 3
years now. It's been compiled on DECstations 3100, SGI running IRIX 5.3,
and Linux boxen. I think someone got it running on a Sun once, but it
had problems with the circle draw function, so a couple of the modes
looked quite odd. Not that odd is bad. Just odd.
So what does it do? Xtacy displays bouncing shapes, rotating palettes,
a couple fractals, a kaleidascope, and lots of more stuff.
cvsd is a wrapper program for cvs in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver'
under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail.
cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It
is relatively easy to configure and tools are provided for easily setting up
a rootjail.
This server can be useful if you want to run a public cvs pserver. You should
however be aware of the security limitations of running a cvs pserver. If you
want any kind of authentication you should really consider using secure shell
as a secure authentication mechanism and transport. Passwords used in cvs
pserver are transmitted in plaintext and this wrapper won't change that.
This server adds a layer of security to cvs. cvs is a very powerful tool and
is capable of running scripts and other things. By running cvs in a rootjail
it is possible to limit the amount of "damage" cvs can do if it is exploited.
It is generally a good idea to run cvsd without any write permissions to any
directory on the system.
KMag is a small utility to magnify a part of the screen. KMag is
very useful for people with visual disabilities and for those working
in the fields of image analysis, web development etc.
makeself is a (very small) shell script that makes neat
self-extracting shell scripts, and allows you to specify a "setup"
command to execute upon finishing.
It's sorta like the Windows winzip self-extracting archives.
The Compress::LZO module provides a Perl interface to the LZO
compression library (see "AUTHOR" for details about where to get LZO).
A relevant subset of the functionality provided by LZO is available in
Compress::LZO.
PPMD is a fast archiver with a good compression ratio. It is written for
embedding in user programs mainly it is not intended for immediate use.
Speed and performance improvements of abstract PPM model 1-6 are the main
goal.
UCL is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C.
UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent
compression ratio while allowing *very* fast decompression. Decompression
requires no additional memory.
Szip performs data compression/decompression. It uses a limited order
sort transform. This transformation is related to the Burrows-Wheeler
transformation used in block sorting compression methods. The
difference is a fast, deterministic behaviour in time at some
compression loss.
Unzoo is a zoo archive extractor written by Martin Schoenert. If unzoo is
called with no arguments, it will first print a summary of the commands and
then prompt for command lines interactively.
Zip is a compression and file packaging utility. It is compatible with
PKZIP 2.04g (Phil Katz ZIP) for MSDOS systems. There is a companion to zip
called unzip (of course) which you can also install from the ports/package
system.