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AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated read-only content distribution, providing location independence, scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows. IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.

gwhois is a generic whois client. It strives to know for all existing tlds and all ip address range the appropiate whois server to ask. You can simple call gwhois with a query for some domain or some ip and it will ask the right server for you! It can even query webforms which are unfortunately the only query type supported by many bad nics. gwhois can also be used as a whois server. You can call it from the inetd and make it accessable via a normal standard whois client. This allows for example using a Windows client and still make use of the enhanced features of gwhois.

This module provides a simple functional "named parameters" style interface for creating URIs. Underneath the hood it uses URI.pm, though because of the simplified interface it may not support all possible options for all types of URIs. It was created for the common case where you simply want to have a simple interface for creating syntactically correct URIs from known components (like a path and query string). Doing this using the native URI.pm interface is rather tedious, requiring a number of method calls, which is particularly ugly when done inside a templating system such as Mason or TT2.

rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. This makes rsync a good remote file distribution/synchronization utility in a dialup PPP/SLIP environment. Note, requires rsync on the destination machine. There is a Computer Science Technical Report on the rsync algorithm is included in the distribution, and is available as ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/tech_report.ps

The vblade is the virtual EtherDrive (R) blade, a program that makes a seekable file available over an ethernet local area network (LAN) via the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. The seekable file is typically a block device like /dev/md0 but even regular files will work. Sparse files can be especially convenient. When vblade exports the block storage over AoE it becomes a storage target. Another host on the same LAN can access the storage if it has a compatible aoe kernel driver.

utftpd is a TFTP server with fine-grained access control, support for blksize (RFC 2348), timeout options and support for revision control. You can assign three different kinds of rights to every client: - read: the right to read a file. - write: the right to write to an already existing file. - create: the right to create a file. Clients may be specified by a single ip address or a range of addresses or by ip address and mask. Revision control is optional and will never be turned on automatically for any file (you have to do the initial checkin into by hand).

Wackamole is an application that helps with making a cluster highly available. It manages a number of virtual IPs, that should be available to the outside world at all times. Wackamole ensures that a single machine within a cluster is listening on each virtual IP address that Wackamole manages. If it discovers that any particular machine within the cluster are not alive, it will almost immediately ensure that other machines acquire their public IPs. At no time will more than one machine listen on any virtual IP. Wackamole also works toward achieving a balanced distribution of the numbered IPs on the machine within the cluster it manages.

PostScript::Simple allows you to have a simple method of writing PostScript files from Perl. It has graphics primitives that allow lines, curves, circles, polygons and boxes to be drawn. Text can be added to the page using standard PostScript fonts. The images can be single page EPS files, or multipage PostScript files. The image size can be set by using a recognised paper size ("A4", for example) or by giving dimensions. The units used can be specified ("mm" or "in", etc) and are the same as those used in TeX. The default unit is a bp, or a PostScript point, unlike TeX.

PyScript is a python module for producing high quality postscript graphics. Rather than use a GUI to draw a picture, the picture is programmed using python and the PyScript objects. Some of the key features are: * All scripting is done in python, which is a high level, easy to learn, well-developed scripting language. * All the objects can be translated, scaled, rotated, ... in fact any affine transformation. * Plain text is automatically kerned. * You can place arbitrary LaTeX expressions on your figures. * You can create your own figure objects, and develop a library of figure primitives. * Output is publication quality.

This is a set of three simple tools written in sh(1) for generating single patches for use in Ports. This set is ideal for creating a new patch when it is inconvenient or undesirable to use the "make makepatch" utility. The first tool is "dupe" which is a quick copy utility. The second tool is "genpatch" which creates patches in the standards diff format and using the standard file name conventions. The last tool is "portfix" which runs "dupe", an editor of choice, and "genpatch" serially as a macro as a convenient and quick way to create port patches. Please see the dupe, genpatch, and portfix man pages for details.