Free decent freespace software for linux

ccextractor project is a fast closed captions extractor for MPEG files.
ccextractor is mostly a mildly optimized C port of McPoodles excellent but painfully slow Perl script SCC_RIP. It lets you rip the raw closed captions (read: subtitles) data from a number of sources, such as DVD or replay TV.
As an added bonus compared to the original SCC_RIP, ccextractor can extract subtitles from the HDTV transport streams that are becoming more common.
At this point ccextractor extracts the line 21 captions (which must legally be present for a number of years until the transition to digital is complete). Note that in most .ts you can find, there will be subtitle data for both analog (EIA-608) decoders and digital (EIA-708). AFAIK there are not
freely available EIA-708 rippers.
Anyway, since line 21 captions will be available for some time, we have time to build a decent 708 ripper.
Basic Usage
For details on CC, please go to McPoodles page:
http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML
You will need his tools to use ccextrators output.
The basic idea is that you get the raw closed caption dump from ccextractor.
Then you need other tools (which vary depending on what you want to do) to continue processing.
To get a transcript from a .ts file in .srt (I assume this will be the most common use) do this:
ccextractor -12 input_file
-12 means "extract both subtitle tracks" (actually technical names are fields but tracks is easier to understand). 1 is almost always English. 2 is Spanish in HBO (at least in the few samples Ive seen) but could be anything. Just extract both of them and check.
Example: cctractor -12 house315.ts
ccextractor will create two files, called house315_1.bin and _2.
Then use McPoodles RAW2SCC to create a temporary SCC file (means Scenerist, which is originally the native format for some program, its not important here).
raw2scc house315_1.bin
This creates house315_1.scc
From this .scc file, you can get the final .srt by using McPoodles CCASDI:
ccasdi -s house315_1.srt
Which looks like this (just 3 random lines shown).
514
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,300
Theyve got another trial
going on at Duke.
515
00:24:09,367 --> 00:24:12,567
15% extend their lives
beyond five years.
516
00:24:12,634 --> 00:24:13,701
If youre positive
for protein PHF--
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for DVR-MS files.
- It improves the CC decoder.
- There are several bugfixes, a major speed boost (20%-40%), improved timing for non-TS files, improved format autodetection, and other minor improvements.

Choosefont is a simple but extremely efficient tool for quickly finding the required font in a large amount of fonts.

It was created due to the lack of decent font selection widgets in many application.

Apart from finding a font, Choosfont can also creat css, html and other code for the selected font, this code is automatically copied to the X clipboard.

AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz is a pure-perl MusicBrainz client implementation.

A::I::M is, at heart, a pure-perl implementation of the MusicBrainz client protocol, encapsulated in some sensible Track/Album/Artist objects that have the sort of methods youd expect. So I can, given a Track object, go

my $some_title = $track->album->track(4)->artist->title;

Eventually, this is intended to be merely a plugin to a more general AudioFile::Identify architecture, along with such exciting things as A::I::Amazon, A::I::CDDB, etc, but until theyre ready and we have a decent API for it, its useful to have this out in the wild, as its very useful.

USAGE

See AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Query for details, but in summary:

use AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Query;
my $query = AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Query->new();
$query->FileInfoLookup(
artist => coldplay,
title => yellow,
items => 5,
) or die "Could not query: " . $query->error();
print "I got ".scalar(@{$query->results})." resultsn";

print "Most likely album is ".
$query->result(0)->album->title ."n";
print "Most likely trackNum is ".
$query->result(0)->track->trackNum ."n";

See AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Album, AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Artist and AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz::Track for details of the methods you can call on these returned objects.

Theres an example of its use in the examples folder in the tarball, tagger.pl (see tagger.pl). This is a utility that examines the ID3 tags of an MP3 file, and will print what MusicBrainz suggests for the rest of the tags.

ext3 adds journaling filesystem capabilities to ext2fs.
What is journaling?
It means you dont have to fsck after a crash. Basically.
What works?
Journaling to a journal file on the journaled filesystem
Automatic recover when the filesystem is remounted
All VFS operations (including quota) should be journaled
Add data updates are also journaled
What is left to be done?
Quota support for non-data-journaled filesystems.
Journaling to an off-filesystem device, eg. NVRam
Decent documentation!
A few internal cleanups: migrating the extra buffer_head fields to a separate jfs_buffer_info field in particular.
Enhancements:
- The major change in this release is a missing byte-endian conversion in the recovery code. This problem affects both the ext3 kernel recovery and the recovery code in e2fsck. Please upgrade to e2fsprogs-1.21-WIP-0601.tar.gz or later.
- The other significant change is a fix when running shared mmaped files on ext3 with more than one ext3 filesystem active: it was possible for ext3 to get confused about which filesystem was active if the VM tried to swap out a page on one filesystem while processing a filesystem update on the other filesystem.
- Pin the buffer heads backing an inode to a transaction when the transaction starts, to prevent the inode being flushed to disk before transaction commit.
- Add a debugging check to trap any attempts to run a nested transaction inside a transaction on a different filesystem.
- Fix an assertion failure that could occur after allocating an indirect block but failing to allocate a block beneath it due to disk full.
- Fix a bug which meant that writes larger than 4k were never being coalesced into a single transaction.
- Rename the confusingly-named "tid_ge" transaction-greater-than function to "tid_gt"
- Update the README to describe the new ext3 features of current e2fsprogs.

Console Lines is a "Lines" game for the Unix terminal. There is no in-game help available right now, so check the README file. To move the cursor, use arrows (or jkhl), to select or to move a chip, use space. To instantly quit, use q. Console Lines requires a certain terminal size, supports a mouse (curses or GPM), and works with various ncurses libraries.
You will need an ANSI standart C compiler, GNU make, and a decent curses library that supports colors.
The current lists of operation systems tested:
Linux, glibc 2.2
Solaris 9
OpenBSD 3.8
CygWin 5
Enhancements:
- Support for smaller terminals (as small as 19x19).
- Support for terminal resize.
- Support for black and white terminals.
- Support for command line options.
- A workaround for a nasty ALTLinux/Debian GPM bug.
- Persistant high scores.
- A man page has been added.

Customer-Touch CRM provides a CRM for small to medium farms.
Version restrictions:
- This application does not work correctly when using Konquerer as your browser. Tested are IE, Opera, and Netscape.
- The statistic routines do not handle an empty database too well. The management information and the site statustics both need some records in the database to function properly. In fact, the whole application handles an empty database quite poorly
- When one uses a really short username/password for the initial account the message "Column password cannot be null" appears. When using a longer username and a longer password, this should work. Ill try and get a decent error message in the next version when this occurs.
Enhancements:
- General bugfixing
- Added possibility to validate entities in block for validators
- Added "sign" products feature and datamining on this item: the application will automatically alert you if you have an equal amount of products, but with opposite sign, in some entities. This will help desk job
- Added the Calendar module (testing)
- Added more powerful query system in summary.php
- Redesigned del.php

filtergen takes a high-level langauge and compiles it into packet filtering rules for a variety of packet filters. Iptables, ipchains, and ipfilter backends are available.
This tool is for generating packet filtering rules from a fairly high-level description language. It doesnt support all of the whizz-bang features of the latest and greatest packet filters, but supports a decent subset which is sufficient for me.
It currently supports just Linux iptables and ipchains. Cisco IOS has been begun, but is incomplete. Darren Reeds ipfilter may be supported at some stage. It doesnt generate optimal rulesets, and has a few limitations which need to be removed, but is still a useful tool.
Not many large softare projects are written entirely in assembly language these days. Its not difficult to be, and the results can often be more efficient, but it does take longer to implement and bugfix, and is not portable to other systems. It is also harder for
others to understand, update and audit.
Similarly, it seems odd that people continue to write packet filters in the equivalent of assembler, or in inflexible macro languages.
Hence this package -- my intent is that "filter" will be to iptables and shell what a C compiler (but not a 4GL) is to assembly.
Enhancements:
- fixed non-working example in filter_syntax man page fix 64-bit warning in filter.c netmask calculation add "-F [policy]" flush option better feedback on parse errors