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dtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs that know how to redraw themselves.

Dvorak7min is an ncurses based dvorak typing tutor for those of you trying to get fluent in this keyboard layout. It features well chosen lessons, color for easy visual feedback, and a real time characters per second display. It's called 7min because it originally was a personal hack written in 7 min.

What is BottleRocket? BottleRocket is a command-line interface for Unix systems to use the FireCracker kit. It is easy to use, has all of the major (non-gui) functionality of the Windows interface, is easy to call from scripts and the backend code is made to be easily linked into other programs. What is the X10 FireCracker kit? The X10 Firecracker kit is a simple wireless home automation system, consisting of a lamp module, an appliance module/radio receiver, a hand held wireless transmitter and a wireless transmitter that plugs into a standard RS-232 serial port. Using either the handheld transmitter or the serial port transmitter, a user can turn on or off any of up to 256 appliances, and brighten/dim any of those that happen to be lamps and plugged into the special lamp modules. Each appliance to be controlled must be plugged into its own module, and each module is set (by turning dials on the front) to a unique address by which it is identified.

Excel_Out is a package that can generate basically formatted Excel files. * Ideal for the automatic production of reports * Fast: on a HP Mini netbook (Intel Atom, 1.66 GHz), Excel Writer produced 50 sheets per second where each sheet had 10,000 data cells * Totally portable and no external library required * No interation with MS Office software

This is a simplified 3D world with alpha-blended objects that look kind of like fireworks or sparks. It also has a number of effects built in, such as fading, blurring, fire ("heat"), and zooming. It serves no purpose except to look pretty. The source-code is also well-documented, so someone might find it useful in learning SDL routines.

FreeGuide is a TV guide program. It uses parser programs to extract TV information from web pages and stores them for viewing without the need to connect to the Internet. The viewer allows the user to view television listings and create customised TV guides by selecting programmes and by building up a favourites list. It works with listings for many countries.

Achievo is a flexible web-based resource management tool for business environments. Achievo features: . Totally web-based system . Based on system independent cutting edge technology . Completely adaptable to your own organisation Achievo is build out of several modules and a central database.

A command line version of biblical curse generator from http://www.shipoffools.com/curses/index.html. The curses are theirs, the code is theirs, I just translated it from JavaScript to Perl. If you are offended by this script, get a life!

A Java-based application allowing you to monitor ebay auctions, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (yen, pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese), Swiss Francs, and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, a unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature.

This software is a library which implements UTF-8 support routines, and uses those routines and others to implement UTF-8aware regular expresions. Language collation sequences are specified in a text file, ${PREFIX}/share/examples/libutf/langcoll.utf, and feedback as to their correctness is appreciated. Alistair G. Crooks