Free box software for linux

boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. These boxes may also be removed, even if they have been badly damaged by editing of the text inside. Since boxes may be open on any side, boxes can also be used to create regional comments in any programming language. With the help of an editor macro or mapping, damaged boxes can easily be repaired.
This is useful for making the function headers in your programming language look better, for spicing up your news postings and emails, or just for decorating your documentation files.
New box designs of all sorts can easily be added and shared by appending to a free format configuration file. boxes was intended to be used with the vim(1) text editor, but can be tied to any text editor which supports filters.
Main features:
- Drawing of ASCII art boxes around input text
- Generation of regional comments in any programming language
- Freely and conveniently user-configurable boxes
- Alignment and positioning of text inside a box
- Removal of boxes, even if box is damaged by editing of contained text
- A number of preconfigured box designs in example config file
- Many useful command line options (such as box size specification etc.)
- Regular expression substitutions on input text
- (e.g. used for quoting closing comment tags in a C comment box)

Ideabox project is a Web based suggestion box system.
It allows every employee in an organization to access suggestions, and submit their own new ideas into a virtual idea box.
Main features:
- Simple to use, uniform user interface through any mainstream web browser;
- Use and administration do not necessitate any special programming knowledge;
- Web based, fast installation process;
- Integrated, fast administrative functions;
- Email notification about actions in the system, eg. a notification mail will be sent to the cordinator upon idea creation;
- You can get different list of ideas depending on status, responsible, creator, deadline etc;
- Idea with deadline in the past will be marked;
- Ideas with different status are represented with different colors;
- Any user can add notes to any idea
- User profiles;
- Fast database engine, fast page generation;

Freebox is a script for sending the music played by amarok to a freebox (french ADSL box).

Box Backup is an FREE, completely automatic on-line backup system for UNIX.
Main features:
- All backed up data is stored on the server in files on a filesystem; no tape or archive devices are used
- The server is trusted only to make files available when they are required; all data is encrypted
- A backup daemon runs on systems to be backed up, and copies encrypted data to the server when it notices changes
- Only changes within files are sent to the server, just like rsync
- Old versions of files on the server are stored as changes from the current version
- Behaves like tape -- old versions and deleted files are available
- Choice of backup behaviour, optimised for document or server backup
- Designed to be easy and cheap to run a server. Portable implementation, and RAID implemented in userland for reliability without complex server setup or expensive hardware. (optional)
Enhancements:
- The diffing algorithm was highly optimised for speed.
- Bugs were fixed. Solaris support was added.
- Portability improvements were made, including a new autoconf based build.
- Xattrs are supported on Linux and Darwin, which backs up resource forks under Mac OS X.
- Experimental features include keep-alive on long diffing operations, saving state for non-server use, a native Win32 port, and support for MinGW and MSVC under Win32.

Dirty Sand Box (DSBapp) is a Web-administered, flat-file, Perl portal.
It comes complete with forums, articles, links, download sections, classifieds ads, an image gallery, surveys, messaging, a POP3 mail client, and much more.
Each member profile has its own guest book and user image gallery.
Enhancements:
- A major overhaul was done.
- Perls CGI module (cgi.pm) is now used for all URL and form parsing. An auction, an e-cart, e-cards, subcategories for links and downloads sections, and preview images for downloads were added.
- More security features were added.

Roster-in-a-Box project is a course management system designed to facilitate the use of autograded homework assignments, while also allowing for text-based questions to be submitted online and graded online by the instructor. I developed and currently use the system for my introductory statistics and microeconomics courses at Long Island University, and I have had it in production since 2005. While you will be able to break the program if you try hard enough, it is stable and very much ready for use.
I wrote the program because I wanted something simpler than Moodle (and also because my school was not supporting Moodle at the time that I started the project). I love Moodle, and Moodle may be right for you, but it wasnt right for me, because I didnt want the course management system to take over my course web site. Basically, Roster-in-a-Box handles the homework and grading functions with a couple of web pages and leaves you on your own to design the rest of your course web site. That may or may not be what you want.
It should be quite simple to take my statistics modules (and the forthcoming microeconomics modules that I just havent gotten around to packaging) and get your own introductory statistics course up in no time. It is also quite simple to set up a course that consists of only text-based, manually-graded questions. On the other hand, if you want to write auto-graded assignments for some other purpose, you will have to know how to code them yourself. The structure of the modules should be somewhat self-explanatory to experienced programmers, but is probably daunting to those who do not know how to code. The entire program is written in PHP, and uses MySQL as a back-end database.
Version restrictions:
- There are things you could do while editing the assignment list that would leave it in an inconsistent state. For example, if you leave a page open, then open up a different page and make edits in that page, and then go back to the first page and save your changes, you may screw things up. I will get around to fixing this problem at some point, but in the mean time try not to do things like that.
- The program uses the PHP session variable, which by default times out after 24 minutes (supposedly due to security concerns). You should bug the web site administrator to lengthen the PHP system setting session.gc_maxlifetime to be as long as possible.
- By default, the system resets to the Spring semester on January 1st, the Summmer semester on May 15th, and the Fall semester on September 1st. I should probably make these dates editable somewhere in site_settings.php, but instead youll have to dig through administer.php and homework.php if you want to change them.
Enhancements:
- This has been used in a production environment for two years now, but the code has never been released.

ECAssignmentBox is a project which allows the creation, submission and grading of online assignments.
ECAssignmentBox is a Plone product which allows the creation, submission and grading of online assignments (exercises, homework), both for traditional on-site courses and for e-learning.
The basic idea is that teachers create assignment boxes into which students submit their answers or solutions. The student submissions are then put through a number of workflow states, typically submitted, accepted and graded. The teacher can view the submissions, assign a grade and add feedback.
The assignment workflow is designed to accommodate different processes.
Assignment boxes can be grouped together using ECFolders, which provide specialized view templates and statistics for the assignments they contain. ECFolders can be nested. You can use them to represent, for example, courses and weekly worksheets.
Works with:
- Plone 2.5
- Plone 2.1.4
- Plone 2.1.3
Enhancements:
- Added field "Maximum number of attempts" to ECAssignmentBox to restrict the number of resubmissions.
- Implemented issue #118: For box owners and managers it is now possible make submissions even if the assignment box is in state public draft or private, and to make any number of resubmissions.
- In the "assignments" view:
- If there is more than one assignment box inside an ECFolder one will see a table for each box. Clicking the check box in one of the tables header will check or uncheck all entries inside this table only and not all entries in all tables.
- Now it is possible to toggle the view of superseded assignments.
- Added clickable workflow states (assignments can now be filtered by workflow state).
- Added delete button and polished the "change state" controls.
- As addition to the "assignments" view, owners and managers can use the "assignments (full)" tab to see the full text of all assignments on one page.
- If the parent of an assignment box is an ECFolder and this ECFolder contains directions, the directions will be shown inside a collapsible box on top of the assignment box.
- Fixed issue #119: Uploads can now be any size.
- Fixed issue #120: Students do not see shared assignments of other users in the "statistics" view.
- Performance improvements: We are now using portal_catalog where possible.