Free associated software for linux

Business::Associates is a library to handle the new XML interface for the Amazon.com Associates program.

This package replaces the Amazon Recommends (tm) links to provide a powerful and simple to use interface that allows you to embed complex, highly targeted ads on your web site (or other documents).

This modules supports many new features that are not available with the standard interfaces. For example, multi-mode searches, i.e. the ability to search across multiple product categories (dvd+video+music+...) is fully supported.

See also http://cybaea.com/Associates.html for more information and example screen shots.
Currently, only the Amazon.com Associates program is supported.

Business::Associates::Stylesheet is a Perl information on the Associates XSLT stylesheets and how to modify the data processing.

THE PROCESSING MODEL

Before we get going on the details, let us first remind ourselves on what we might call the processing model of the Associates package.

The first step is to retrieve the raw XML data from Amazon.com (or, technically, from the local cache if we already have it). This is structured data that describes the (currently) fifteen best-selling titles at Amazon.com for the selection criteria we have chosen. Those criteria can be keyword searches or a look-up of a specific category of product, and are typically chosen by the HTML editor or by the code that generates the HTML. The perl code provided by this package retrieves the XML.

The second step is to transform this raw XML into a format that the device responsible for the visual display can handle. In our case, that device is ultimately the web browser, so we need to transform the XML data into HTML or xhtml data. However, the same process model could be used to render the data in another format, say for inclusion to a postscript document. This data transformation is done used XSLT, a standard and a very powerful tool for transforming XML documents. This is the subject of this document.

The third step is the visual formatting of the data. At this stage we have the data in a format that the visual display device can understand, and we need to tell it of the details of the formatting. In out model and for HTML (or xhtml) output, that is done using traditional Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). That is the topic of a separate document and concerns us only so far as it reminds us that we need to be able to identify each element type in the output such that the CSS designer can say, for example, "lets have all book titles in red text". In HTML, this identification is done by defining class attributes.

defaultrouted is a tool that automates network configuration by trying to find alternate networks when a gateway stops working. It uses has a configuration file that lists conditions and actions to be performed.

Conditions can be IP addresses of networking interfaces, whether an Ethernet interface has a link, whether a wireless interface is associated, the SSID and AP of access points, and logical combinations of these.

Actions can include setting gateways, configuring wireless parameters, configuring static IP addresses, and calling external programs.

JavaInetLocator project is a Java library to look up the country code and language associated with an IP address.
It uses a local copy of the WHOIS database to perform fast, accurate lookups of country codes. It is useful for log analysis, internationalization, geolocation, and more.
Enhancements:
- The database was updated to February 2007.
- Locales were added for Aaland Islands (Swedish) (AX:sv), Jersey (English) (JE:en), Montenegro (Serbian) (ME:sr), and Serbia (Serbian) (RS:sr).

Sharedance is a high-performance server that centralize ephemeral key/data pairs on remote hosts, without the overhead and the complexity of an SQL database.
Sharedance project was mainly designed to share caches and sessions between a pool of web servers. Access to a sharedance server is trivial through a simple PHP API and it is compatible with the expectations of PHP 4 and PHP 5 session handlers.
Sharedance is heavily used on Skyblog.
Enhancements:
- The Nagle algorithm has been disabled.
- Log messages are now in local time.
- Some minor bugs have been fixed.

XCard project is a is a French flashcard program.

Its used to help students memorize French words. It comes with several default word lists, ranging from verb lists, to vocabulary associated with airplane travel.

It has the capability to repeat lesser known words, graph a students progress, translate words to French, and to create new word lists.

It is deployed via Java Webstart, and can be run from the XCard homepage.

The Blowfish cipher in C and i386 assembler.

In cryptography, Blowfish is a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products. While no effective cryptanalysis of Blowfish has been found to date, more attention is now given to block ciphers with a larger block size, such as AES or Twofish.

Schneier designed Blowfish as a general-purpose algorithm, intended as a replacement for the aging DES and free of the problems associated with other algorithms. At the time, many other designs were proprietary, encumbered by patents or kept as government secrets. Schneier has stated that, "Blowfish is unpatented, and will remain so in all countries. The algorithm is hereby placed in the public domain, and can be freely used by anyone."

aircrack is a 802.11 sniffer and WEP/WPA key cracker.
It consists of: airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), and airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files).
Enhancements:
- airodump: show probing clients as "not associated"
- airodump: dont substract the noise level unless madwifi
- airodump: fixed channel hopping with old orinoco
- airmon.sh: added detection of the zd1211 driver