Free american idle software for linux

American Political Science: Campaign Simulator project is a statistically based political campaign simulation game.
The Campaign Simulator is an attempt to statistically model and predict the outcome of an American presidential election.
Several users assume the roles of competitive candidates and inflict the repercussions of certain decisions on a GSS-based dataset.
The application is written in Java and supports all operating systems with a Java 1.5 VM.
Main features:
- Time is not the only limiting variable. In fact, time may not be the proper limit as most operations may be performed in tandem; an economic system that allows fund raising elements should be implemented.
- The current choices all utilize the same dataset algorithm to effect the populace in similar ways- this set of scripts should be broadened and deepened as they are too high level.
- The Python Architecture needs polishing- the internal IDE is not complete, and the ability to assign scripts to run at differing points in the lifetime of the application has yet to be created.
- The installer should place links on the desktops of Mac and Unix/Linux Systems.
- Some of the small features planned, such as a GUI for dialog creation, have been cut for the deadline and should be added.

Aorta project is a load-balancing clustered P2P application.
It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell).
A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta.
A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s, Genomic DNA Alignment, or simply to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites.
You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc.
Main features:
- PingTasklet simply traversers your net of aortas.
- ImageTasklet , simply rescale imagecolours.
- EncodeTasklet, spreads out mp3 encode in your LAN.
- SimpleSort , Merge sort by Gretsam.
Enhancements:
- Refactored to one base class Moblet,the smalles code and data entity moving around
- Improved Moblet Receiver and executing. Minimizing worker idle time
- startup script aorta.sh improved now can start with remote debug params
- Aorta core can now be used as an API to emit/delegete Moblets from an user created application
- Preferences stuff should work on a MS platform now
- Herve added DocBook to buildsystem
- Gretsam added a MergeSorter Tasklet

number is a perl script that will print the English name of a number. One can print names of extremely large numbers (e.g. 1e1234567). Number can be run on the command line, or as a CGI script when run as number.cgi.

Number prints names in both the American and European naming system. It can also print the decimal expansion of a number in either naming system.

Parallel::Pvm is a Perl extension for the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) Message Passing System.

SYNOPSIS

use Parallel::Pvm;

The PVM message passing system enables a programmer to configure a group of (possibly heterogenous) computers connected by a network into a parallel virtual machine. The system was developed by the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Emory University.

Using PVM, applications can be developed which spawns parallel processes onto nodes in the virtual machine to perform specific tasks. These parallel tasks can also periodically exchange information using a set of message passing functions developed for the system.

PVM applications have mostly been developed in the scientific and engineering fields. However applications for real-time and client/server systems can also be developed. PVM simply provides a convenient way for managing parallel tasks and communications without need for rexec or socket level programming.

As a utility, PVM enables an organisation to leverage on the computers already available for parallel processing. Parallel applications can be started during non-peak hours to utilise idle CPU cycles. Or dedicated workstation clusters connected via a high performance network like ATM can be used for high performance computing.

It is recommended that you read the PVM manual pages and the book "PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine, A userss guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing". Both the PVM system and the book can be obtained from the HTTP address http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm.

For the rest of this document we will provide a tutorial introduction to developing PVM applications using perl. The interface for some of the PVM functions have been changed of course to give it a more perl-like feel.
Remember think perl think parallel! Good Luck!

Barrage is a rather violent action game with the objective to kill and destroy as many targets as possible within 3 minutes. You control a gun that may either fire small or large grenades at soldiers, jeeps and tanks.

Targets are fast paced and require careful aiming as it takes half a second to reload the gun. Additionally you have to keep an eye on your ammo and reload in time. Useful to kill some minutes of idle time.

And yes, the graphics look similiar to Command&Conquer but they are self-pixeled. I just used a screenshot of C&C as sketch. And no, none of the sounds are taken from C&C. I created all of them by myself except for the fonts which come from Karl Bartel.

Solaris::Kstat is a Perl module to access Solaris Kstats from Perl.

SYNOPSIS

use Solaris::Kstat;
my $kstat = Solaris::Kstat->new();
my ($usr1, $sys1, $wio1, $idle1) =
@{$kstat->{cpu_stat}{0}{cpu_stat0}}{qw(user kernel wait idle)};
print("usr sys wio idlen");
while (1)
{
sleep 5;
if ($kstat->update()) { print("Configuration changedn"); }
my ($usr2, $sys2, $wio2, $idle2) =
@{$kstat->{cpu_stat}{0}{cpu_stat0}}{qw(user kernel wait idle)};
printf(" %.2d %.2d %.2d %.2dn",
($usr2 - $usr1) / 5, ($sys2 - $sys1) / 5,
($wio2 - $wio1) / 5, ($idle2 - $idle1) / 5);
$usr1 = $usr2; $sys1 = $sys2; $wio1 = $wio2; $idle1 = $idle2;
}

This module provides a tied hash interface to the Solaris kstats library. The kstats library allows you to get access to all the stats used by sar, iostat, vmstat etc, plus a lot of others that arent accessible through the usual utilities.
Solaris categorises statistics using a 3-part key - module, instance and name. For example, the root disk stats can be found under sd.0.sd0, and the cpu statistics can be found under cpu_stat.0.cpu_stat0, as in the above example. The method Solaris::Kstats-new()> creates a new 3-layer tree of perl hashes with exactly the same structure - i.e. the stats for disk 0 can be accessed as $ks-{sd}{0}{sd0}>. The bottom (4th) layer is a tied hash used to hold the individual statistics values for a particular system resource.

Creating a Solaris::Kstat object doesnt actually read all the possible statistics in, as this would be horribly slow and inefficient. Instead it creates a 3-layer structure as described above, and only reads in the individual statistics as you reference them. For example, accessing $ks-{sd}{0}{sd0}{reads} will read in all the statistics for sd0, including writes, bytes read/written, service times etc. Once you have accessed a bottom level statitics value, calling $ks->update() will automatically update all the individual values of any statistics that you have accessed.

Note that there are two values per bottom-level hash that can be read without causing the full set of statistics to be read from the kernel. These are "class" which is the kstat class of the statistics and "crtime" which is the time that the kstat was created. See kstat(3K) for full details of these fields.

Satellite can track many remote machines with dynamic IP addresses in situations where public DNS services are inappropriate. Satellite can log and alert an admin immediately when a site comes online or needs attention.
The Satellite archive also includes an RPM spec file. RPM users can build a binary package ready to install by running:
rpm -tb satellite-1.0.2.tar.gz
You will find the binary rpm under /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/i386 or /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
Reasons for Satellite
Public DNS services are often used to track clients with changing IP addresses, but DNS solutions suffer from several problems:
Failure
Public DNS servers regularly fail due to overloading and system administration problems.
No notification
There is no notification when a system goes online. Instead you must poll DNS regularly to see when a system comes online.
Latency
Updating can take from several minutes to several hours before the change is made public. On systems with small idle timeouts it is often impossible to find the current IP address via DNS.
No history
Public DNS services only keep track of the current address and dont record past times or changes in a central location.
Enhancements:
- Minor code improvements. -e no longer searches PATH.
- --with-port removed. Default now found from /etc/services.
- Documentation updates