Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation,
originally published to Usenet-- probably comp.sources.unix-- in 1991
by Joe Nowakowski. This software is in the public domain.
This simulation works by modelling a dust cloud around a Sun-like
star, injecting a series of masses which collect dust, and form
planets. The simulation then determines what the planetary
environments will be like in terms of temperature, atmospheric
composition, and other factors. The system description is saved to a
file named "New.System".
This utility is designed to write a Makefile for an extension module from a
Makefile.PL. It is based on the Makefile.SH model provided by Andy Dougherty
and the perl5-porters.
It splits the task of generating the Makefile into several subroutines that
can be individually overridden. Each subroutine returns the text it wishes to
have written to the Makefile.
MakeMaker is object oriented. Each directory below the current directory that
contains a Makefile.PL is treated as a separate object. This makes it possible
to write an unlimited number of Makefiles with a single invocation of
WriteMakefile().
This module provides a shared memory cache accessed as a
tied hash.
Shared memory is an area of memory that is available to
all processes. It is accessed by choosing a key, the
ipc_key argument to tie. Every process that accesses
shared memory with the same key gets access to the same
region of memory. In some ways it resembles a file
system, but it is not hierarchical and it is resident in
memory. This makes it harder to use than a filesystem but
much faster. The data in shared memory persists until the
machine is rebooted or it is explicitly deleted.
This is a version of sed based on GNU sed. It is not a version of
GNU sed, though.
There are several new features (including in-place editing of files,
extended regular expression syntax and a few new commands) and some
bug fixes; see the NEWS file for a brief summary and the ChangeLog
for more detailed descriptions of changes.
The biggest note, i think is the *huge* speed difference, where
regular sed might take a few mins, super-sed can take only seconds
this is not true in all cases, and sometimes you have modify your
regexp syntax, however for the speed increase, it might be worth
it.
Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking
for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration.
It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery,
services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server
running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language.
The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public
Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful.
PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins first.
The zeroer utility can be used to wipe empty space on a disk. In contrary to dd,
zeroer does not wipe existing files on a partition. It overwrites the
unallocated disk space around existing files, which means that deleted files
cannot be restored after processing a certain partition with zeroer.
The utility's principle consists in writing huge zero-padded memory blocks to a
file. To a certain extent this works similar to dd, however zeroer dynamically
reduces the blockwriter's buffer size when the filesystem is going to be full.
Emplacken is a tool for managing a set of Plack applications based on config
files. It also adds support for privilege dropping and error logs to those Plack
servers that don't support these features natively.
It works be reading a config file and using that to generate a PSGI application
file based on your config. It knows how to generate Catalyst, Mojo, and Mason
app files natively. For other apps, or more complicated setups, you can supply a
template to Emplacken and it will use that to generate the PSGI app.
SandUhr is an alarm clock, which is designed as a sand-glass. The program uses
the X Window System and the GNOME desktop environment. The alarm is delivered
to you by either ringing the console bell, by playing a sound file, or by
starting an external program of your choice.
The program is fully integrated into the GNOME application framework.
o Drag and drop: you may drop a color onto the timer to change the sand's visual
appearance.
o It uses the GNOME help system to provide a manual.
o Use of CORBA: The program provides a CORBA interface. So you may control the
SandUhr from within your own programs.
distcc is a program to distribute compilation of C code across
several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the
same results as a local compile, is simple to install and use, and
is often significantly faster than a local compile.
Unlike other distributed build systems, distcc does not require all
machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to
have the same libraries or header files installed. Machines can be
running different operating systems, as long as they have compatible
binary formats or cross-compilers.
distcc sends the complete preprocessed source code across the network
for each job, so all it requires of the volunteer machines is that
they be running the distccd daemon, and that they have an appropriate
compiler installed.
This version also comes with a text-based as well as a GNOME-based monitor
to inspect the load on the cluster, and how it is distributed among the
various distcc nodes.
SendSNPP is a perl program for sending messages through a RFC1861 compliant
SNPP server. SNPP stands for Simple Network Paging Protocol. It is used by a
wide range of paging providers for sending pages. A list of some of the
providers that support the SNPP service is on the WWW site below. SendSNPP
requires no special modules, and has been tested on Linux and Windows systems.
It has a very straight forward interface making it very easy to use.
Feature List:
- Easy addition of new service providers by simply editing a hash
- Supports logging to a file
- Script returns error status to the system when an error occurs
- Automatic message truncation when message exceeds providers limit
- Verbose and descriptive error messages if something goes wrong
- Multiple debugging levels