Free blitz software for linux

Perl utility used in conjunction with the Majordomo mailing list manager to remove bounced addresses from mailing lists.

One mistery of the Internet is why it is that any drooling moron can instantly subscribe to every mailing list he hears word of, but cant seem to manage to unsubscribe without posting something to every user on the list, or personally involving the list manager, often soliciting this assistance with abusive and obscene E-mail.


Genuinely solving this problem will probably require an upgrade to the general intellectual calibre of Internet users, and it appears the trend is heading in the opposite direction. BLITZ merely reduces the workload on the poor overworked list manager by providing a cut-and-paste tool that allows blowing away these idiots without invoking a text editor on a series of mailing list files. BLITZ is intended to be used in conjunction with the Majordomo mailing list manager and, like Majordomo, is implemented in Perl. It assumes a Unix-like mail program, with the ability to receive input from a pipe; its probably not worth the effort to try to get BLITZ running on a non-Unix system.

Note that users are actually unsubscribed by sending messages to majordomo (or whatever list manager user name is configured) rather than directly modifying the mailing list files. This automatically protects against race conditions since the list manager contains locks to prevent multiple simultaneous updates to its list files.

As an extra gimmick, entering a user name of "?" lists the number of subscribers to each of the lists being managed.

Another continual irritant in the life of a list manager is bounced messages due to subscribers abandoning E-mail accounts without first unsubscribing. In many cases BLITZ is all you need to purge such addresses, but with the advent of "permanent name" services which forward mail to an arbitrary address, the name on your list may have nothing to do with the name you see on a bounced message. Properly-configured mail transfer agents will furnish you adequate header information to track down the original destination, regardless of forwarding, but "properly-configured" is a term one learns to use parsimoniously in a universe which admits of the existence of Microsoft.

PROBELIST is a Perl script which sends an administrative message to all subscribers of a given list, informing them that they are listed as subscribers and providing instructions how to unsubscribe, should they wish to. The subtext to this is that PROBELIST creates a log directory which enables, for all but the most extremely incompetent mail delivery systems, tracking back bounces to the original subscriber address on your list responsible for them, even in that horror of horrors where somebody subscribes a list address at another site to your list.

PROBELIST is an epiphany of system administration wonkery--youre going to have to read the code and be competent in Perl and things mailwise to use it and interpret the output. But if you find yourself deleting the same enigmatic mail bounces again and again, you may find the intellectual investment worth making.

Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled as a PHP module. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed into much more.
The project is based on extensible template controllers (custom view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in HTML).
Enhancements:
- Lot of code cleanup was done.
- The "parse" and "include" methods were improved, and their "vars" argument is not a globals array anymore; now its just an arbitrary iteration set and both methods comply with set/block/fetch.
- Templates included by the "include" method from PHP code inherit globals from the caller automatically.
- Corresponding tests were updated.
- A new article was added to the documentation: "Quick Geek Blitz Tutorial", which is addressed to those professionals who want to learn API basics in a minimum of time.

GluCat project is a library of template classes which model the universal Clifford algebras over the real or complex fields, with arbitrary dimension and arbitrary signature.

GluCat implements a model of each Clifford algebra corresponding to each non-degenerate quadratic form up to a maximum number of dimensions.

GluCat classes were originally designed to be used as template parameters for other template libraries, such as Blitz++, deal.II, Matrix Template Library and POOMA.

These template libraries expect a numeric class which implements "appropriate numeric semantics". To provide these semantics, the GluCat interface matches float or complex as much as possible, but the GluCat classes must be different from float or complex, because they model a different algebra.

Ultimate++ is a cross-platform C++ rapid application development suite.

C++ has the potential to be the most productive language in computing history. Its multiparadigm nature allows the effective development of almost any kind of software, from low level driver code to very high level business logic abstractions.

Unfortunately this potential has been left untapped, due to the lack of truly effective libraries, causing C++ evolution to be stuck somewhere between STL-iterator adaptors and smart-pointers. Ultimate++ finally uncovers this potential....

Ultimate++ includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.

Rapid development is achieved by the smart and aggressive use of C++ rather than through fancy code generators. In this respect, U++ competes with popular scripting languages while preserving C/C++ runtime characteristics.

The U++ integrated development environment, TheIDE, introduces modular concepts to C++ programming. It features BLITZ-build technology to speedup C++ rebuilds up to 4 times, Visual designers for U++ libraries, Topic++ system for documenting code and creating rich text resources for applications (like help and code documentation) and Assist++ - a powerful C++ code analyzer that provides features like code completion, navigation and transformation.

TheIDE can work with GCC, MinGW and Visual C++ 7.1 or 8.0 compilers (including free Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 and Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition) and contains a full featured debugger. TheIDE can also be used to develop non-U++ applications.

U++ distributions combine U++ with 3rd party tools like MinGW compiler or SDL library to provide an instant development platform.

What you can get with the Ultimate++ download in plain English

- Very effective C++ library for cross-platform development in source form.
- A good integrated development environment, designed for developing large C++ applications.

You can use both, or you can use whatever you need.

tvmet is a Vector and Matrix template library that uses Meta Templates and Expression Templates (ET) to evaluate results at compile time, thus making it fast for low-end systems.
Temporaries are avoided because of this. The produced code is similar to hand-coded code, but the quality of the code still depends on the compiler and its version. The dimensions for vectors and matrices are static and bounded at compile time using template arguments.
Main features:
- Matrices and Vectors with fixed sizes (of course), the data is stored in a static array.
- compile time dimension check for Vectors and Matrices to preserve the mathematical meaning.
- vector, matrix, matrix-matrix and matrix-vector fast operations:
- complete set of standard arithmetic operations for Vectors and Matrices (blitz++ supports this only for TinyVector).
- complete set of standard compare operations for Vectors and Matrices as well as ternary functions like a ? b : c (see eval for use).
- binary and unary operations.
- meta template use for Matrix-Matrix-Product $M,M$, Matrix-Transpose $M^T$ and Matrix-Vector-Product $M,x$ functions and operators.
- meta template for special functions like $M^T, x$, $M^T,M$, $M,M^T$ and $(M,M)^T$ functions, see ... special Meta-Template Functions.
- simple Matrix rows and column access as a Vector.
- chaining of matrix and vector expressions is possible and working.
- Vector inner and outer product (dot and cross product).
- special handling for the aliasing problem - see ... about aliasing.
- STL iterator interface. This opens the door to all sorts of great STL applications.
- type promotion (for handling Matrices and Vectors of differing types).
- works on self defined types such as the std::complex type.
- makes no use of exceptions. Therefore you can use it for embedded systems or in Linux kernel space.
- nice expression level printing for debugging purposes (print the expanded expression tree).
- good documentation with examples.
- regression tests for nearly all operations and functions.
- support for several compilers (see Compiler Support).
- written as a pure class and template library, no binary libraries and versioning are needed - designed to avoid code blot due to the use of templates.
- ISO/IEC 14882:1998 compliant.

Rush 2005 is a football game using SDL.

Rush 2005 is a BSD-licensed project to create an American football game for Windows and Linux in the tradition of Tecmo Bowl and NFL Blitz, built using the cross-platform SDL game programming library.