From the website:
What is PHP Surveyor?
PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop
surveys, publish surveys and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey
has been created it can be published as an online survey (displayed as
single questions, group by group or all in one page) or you can use a
dataentry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey.
PHP Surveyor can produced 'branching' surveys (set conditions on whether
individual questions will display), can vary the look and feel of your
survey through a templating system, and can provide basic statistical
analysis of your survey results.
PHP Surveyor includes the capacity to generate individualised 'tokens', so
if you have a list of people you want to invite to participate in a survey
you can issue each one with a token, and they will be able to access the
survey using that token. This allows for quite good quality control of
your surveys.
"twander" is a Filesystem Browser which runs on both Unix-like systems
as well as Win32 systems. It embraces the best ideas of both similar
GUI-driven programs (Konqueror, Windows Explorer) as well as
text-based interfaces (Midnight Commander, List, Sweep).
While the "twander" interface is graphical, all the major navigation,
selection, and execution commands can be entered from the keyboard,
not just the mouse. This means Power Users who are strong typists can
minimize dependency on the mouse and materially speed up their
interactions with the system.
Moreover, unlike the other programs, "twander" does not have a
built-in set of commands (which typically cannot be changed).
Instead, "twander" supports a rich macro configuration language for
virtually limitless user-definition of commands. The configuration
language provides a simple mechanism for communicating the list of
items currently selected in the GUI to the user-defined commands.
Each user is thus free to configure a command set unique and
appropriate to their needs. As with the navigation commands,
user-defined commands can be invoked with either the keyboard (a
single keystroke) or the mouse (a menu selection).
This utility notably decreases the startup time of your X sessions, provided
that you start a number of X clients automatically during the X session startup.
Most people, for instance, start X clients like xterm, xclock, xconsole and
xosview from their .xinitrc, .openwin-init, .xtoolplaces or .xsession file.
These X clients are started simultaneously (in the background) which puts a
high load on the X server and the OS:
* The X server is not multi-threaded, so all X clients are competing to get
access to the X server and to use its resources, which causes a lot of
overhead (= delay).
* The performance of other (non X related) tasks served by the system degrades
badly due to the high load.
If the system has not enough RAM to hold all the X clients, it is swapping
heavily, resulting again in a lot of delay.
On the Sun platform there is a utility called 'toolwait' which solves these
problems: it starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped
a window and then exits.
Xtoolwait is a free implementation of exactly the same idea.
Fastjar is a version of Sun's `jar' utility, written entirely in C, and
therefore quite a bit faster. Fastjar can be up to 100x faster than the
stock `jar' program running without a JIT. Currently, the author is
working on adding all the features present in the Sun utility. At the
moment, implemented features are:
* Archive creation
* Verbose/quiet output
* stdout vs. file output
* Manifest file support
* Deflation or storage
* Changing to directory and adding files (-C)
* Archive content listing (-t)
* Archive extraction (-x)
Osmosis is a command line java app for processing OSM data. The tool consists
of a series of pluggable components that can be chained together to perform a
larger operation. For example, it has components for reading from database and
from file, components for writing to database and to file, components for
deriving and applying change sets to data sources, components for sorting data,
etc. It has been written so that it is easy to add new features without
re-writing common tasks such as file or database handling.
It shows you the solar system viewed from top (90 heliocentric).
The objects have the following colors:
Sun - yellow Mercury - green
Venus - white Earth - cyan
Mars - red Jupiter - gray
Saturn - green Uranus - pink
Neptune - cyan Pluto is not included since it's way "off course"
A left click on the window changes the view between inner and outer planets.
A left click on the date increases the day/month/year. A right click on the
date does the opposite. Click the right mouse button on the solar system to
reset the date to the current date (which is in Universal Time).
JACK is a low latency audio server, written for POSIX-conformant operating
systems. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio
device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its
clients can run in their own processes (i.e. as normal applications), or
can they can run within the JACK server (i.e. as a "plugin").
JACK was designed from the ground up for professional audio work, and its
design focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and
low latency operation.
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports
a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.
Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their
parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators
and MIDI-CCs. As most functionality is located in shared libraries,
creating alternative user-interfaces is easy. A versatile console mode
interface is included in the package.
Epos is a language independent rule-driven Text-to-Speech (TTS) system
primarily designed to serve as a research tool. Epos is (or tries to be)
independent of the language processed, linguistic description method, and
computing environment. It has the following features:
- Czech and Slovak text to speech synthesis configuration
- LPC and time domain speech synthesizers
- Prosody modelling driven by rules, prosody models, and artificial
neural networks
- All language dependencies are defined in the configuration files,
as opposed to the source code
- Documentation in English included in the distribution
This is a port for the development version of Epos.
from the authors:
The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual
text-to-speech system for Unix platforms. It is written in C++ and
includes a Scheme-based scripting language. Included with Festival
are lexicons and voices that together form a whole text-to-speech
system.
For output via esd do:
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'esdaudio)
NAS and direct output are documented in section 23 of the users'
manual.
If you need the OGI extensions, install ports/audio/festival+OGI instead.
Trevor Johnson