Free ample software for linux

AMPLE is short for "A MP3 LEnder". I wrote AMPLE one summer when I was coding for a company and got fed up with having to FTP over all my MP3 files from my home server to the computer at work just to listen to them. And through the other "MP3 servers" I could find didnt fit my needs for one of the following reasons:
Depended on libfoo, libbar, python, perl, php3, Apache, libssl, etc, etc, etc...I just wanted to listen to the files
Had a lot of features for "DJ:ing" etc that I really didnt need. Well....it was fun to write too.
So whats good with AMPLE?
Small, standalone (written in C using no external libraries)
Portable (I think), I often try to compile it on the SourceForge compile farms
Allows you to listen to your own MP3s away from home, nothing more, nothing less
This is beginning to sound like marketing cr*p so Ill just stop right there, check out the links on the left for more info.
Enhancements:
- There are only two fixes in this release. One is a compilation fix for Solaris and the other one is a security fix. Turns out a buffer used for local communication didnt have sufficient checks. User data isnt written without checks though so the worst that can happen is that huge amounts of memory is allocated. The socket was also bound to the loopback device so it should only be locally abuseable.

HTML::HiLiter is a Perl module that can highlight words in an HTML document just like a felt-tip HiLiter.
HTML::HiLiter is designed to make highlighting search queries in HTML easy and accurate. HTML::HiLiter was designed for CrayDoc 4, the Cray documentation server. It has been written with SWISH::API users in mind, but can be used within any Perl program.
SYNOPSIS
use HTML::HiLiter;
my $hiliter = new HTML::HiLiter(
WordCharacters => w-.,
BeginCharacters => w,
EndCharacters => w,
HiTag => span,
Colors => [ qw(#FFFF33 yellow pink) ],
Links => 1
TagFilter => &yourtagcode(),
TextFilter => &yourtextcode(),
Force => 1,
SWISH => $swish_api_object
);
$hiliter->Queries( foo bar or "some phrase" );
$hiliter->CSS;
$hiliter->Run(some_file_or_URL);
Main features:
- With HTML::Parser enabled (default), HTML::HiLiter evals highlighted HTML chunk by chunk, buffering all text within an HTML block element before evaluating the buffer for highlighting. If no matches to the queries are found, the HTML is immediately printed (default) or cached and returned at the end of all evaluation (Print=>0).
- You can direct the print() to a filehandle with the standard select() function in your script. Or use Print=>0 to return the highlighted HTML as a scalar string.
- Turn highlighting off on a per-tagset basis with the custom HTML "nohiliter" attribute. Set the attribute to a TRUE value (like 1) to turn off highlighting for the duration of that tag.
- Ample debugging. Set the $HTML::HiLiter::Debug variable to a level between 1 and 3, and lots of debugging info will be printed within HTML comments .
- Will highlight link text (the stuff within an tagset) if the HREF value is a valid match. See the Links option.
- Smart context. Wont highlight across an HTML block element like a tagset or a tagset. (IMHO, your indexing software shouldnt consider matches for phrases that span across those tags either.)
- Rotating colors. Each query gets a unique color. The default is four different colors, which will repeat if you have more than four queries in a single document. You can define more colors in the new() object call.
- Cascading Style Sheets. Will add a

HPGL-DXF project can convert HPGL files into DXF format, which can be read by the likes of QCAD.
HPGL-DXF is a small program that was written originally to allow the conversion of HPGL formatted circuit board CAM files into DXF files so that they could be subsequently processed by a laser cutting system.
How does it work?
HPGL-DXF is a compact program that breaks the tokenizes HPGL data stream into individual HPGL commands and selectively translates them into DXF output.
Installation:
Installation is quite simple, a two step process
(unpacking) tar zxvf hpgl-dxf-0.0.2.tar.gz
(building) cd hpgl-dxf-0.0.2; make
(installing) make install
How do I use it?
hpgl-dxf -i datafile.hpgl -o datafile.dxf
Version restrictions:
- Only converts pen up/down and absolute/relative commands (usually more than ample for most plots)
- Does not convert colours
- Does not convey dimensions (though a lot of HPGL files are set in mils or 1/1000")

Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C (libdbi) implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl.
Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
Main features:
Database-level abstraction:
Your programs dont need to deal with the arbitrary interfaces and oddities of each database library. libdbi handles all the details for you, you just tell it what you want the database to do.
Modularity:
Since database code written with libdbi is not tied to one specific database server, you can effortlessly switch databases or give your users the option to specify their own database settings.
Clean interface:
With ample documentation describing libdbi and its well thought out object-oriented design, programming with libdbi should be less painful than programming with native database libraries. And you only need to learn it once instead of learning each database librarys syntax.
Accommodates coder apathy:
libdbi is written to do The Right Thing(tm), not just some quick hack that does the job in a half-assed fashion. This saves tons of your $100/hour time from debugging, so that you can mess around having fun during the hours that clients are paying you to debug. It also strives to reduce the worldwide crisis of carpal tunnel syndrome, so it uses constructs such as this one to pack multiple function calls into one line, saving you the bother of typing more than you have to:
dbi_result_get_fields(result, "id.%i firstname.%s lastname.%s fractional_value.%f", &id, &firstname, &lastname, &floatval);
Driver interface:
The dynamic linking used by libdbi allows for driver authors to license their drivers however they please - they are not restricted to the GPL or LGPL. Drivers are easy to write, and require no special installation.
Error handling:
Instead of checking every single database call for errors, libdbi gives programmers the option of registering an error handler callback, similar to a signal handler. Because we know youll "forget" to check for errors otherwise :)
Convenience:
Spend your time writing clever code, not reinventing the wheel with your own single-use, #define-abusing, less featureful database interface.
libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
The libdbi-drivers project maintains drivers for libdbi. Drivers are distributed seperately from the library itself.
There are currently drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and mSQL. More are on the way.
Enhancements:
- Support for a timezone suffix in time and date types was added.
- Error handling and error reporting were vastly improved.
- Some memory leaks were fixed.