Free employee software for linux

ComputeMode project is an Icatis product that extends an organizations Computational Grid through aggregation of unused computing resources.
For instance, ComputeMode lets a virtual cluster to be built using employees PCs at their idle times. Practically most PCs in large companies are not used at night, on weekends, and during employee vacations, training periods or business trips.
So ComputeMode allows you to take the benefits of the powerful computation infrastructure you already have, but you are not aware of!
Another interesting use of ComputeMode is within computer classrooms, where PCs can be automatically harnessed into a virtual cluster when they are not being used (night, week-ends, holidays).
ComputeMode relies on a ComputeMode Server that keeps track of the availability of some dedicated PCs on the local network. Each PC Owner has a weekly availability Schedule, identifying periods when he or she is not using his/her PC. For instance, a PC owner can declare working periods from 8:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday.
In the remainder of this document, we will refer to PCs handled by ComputeMode as Processing Nodes.
The ComputeMode Administrator can easily manage the computing PCs through a Web-based interface, accessed through the ComputeMode Server.
A Grid User can submit some computational Jobs to the system through the use of a classical Batch Manager (also called "Job Management System", "Distributed Resource Managers", or "Queuing System").
The Grid User can log onto the Batch Manager from any machine of the local network (usually through the "ssh" secure shell). The Batch Manager will then reserve appropriate resources for the computations, Schedule the execution of the Jobs depending on the overall load on the Computing Grid and allocate Jobs to available computing resources.
The OAR Batch Manager is installed by default with ComputeMode, even though other products such as Platform LSF, OpenPBS or Sun Grid Engine are supported by ComputeMode.
ComputeMode can monitor the load on the Batch Manager, and detect overloads. In such cases it can allocate available Processing Nodes to computational tasks.
Each Processing Node has two different operating modes:
- The User Mode, in which the machine is working in its standard way under Microsoft Windows for instance. The Owner of the machine will not even notice that his or her PC is managed as a ComputeMode Processing Node. In particular, the computational resources of the PC will not be used while in User Mode.
- The Computation Mode (this is where the name of our product comes from) is activated when the machine is in a time period where the PC is declared as "idle". In case the ComputeMode Server detects some computational peak, the PC can be remotely switched to Computation Mode. The switch from user mode is done through an automatic reboot of the machine and proceeds to a remote boot. The remote boot is handled by the ComputeMode Server with the "Preboot eXecution Environment" (PXE) protocol, which is natively available from the BIOS of PCs since 1999. While in Computation Mode, the machine is running under the Linux Operating System, and does not have any access to any local hard disk.
When the ComputeMode Server detects that some given Processing Node is no longer available for computation, it restores the machine back to its User Mode, so that the Owner will not even notice that his or her PC has been used by ComputeMode.
The submitted Jobs can take advantage of the NFS distributed file system, which is made available from the ComputeMode Server. Each Grid User has his or her own private directory and can use it for data required by the computational Jobs, as well as to retrieve the produced output files.
A specific case may happen if a PC Owner comes back and needs his or her PC while a computational Job is being processed. This can happen, for instance, if the Owner has an urgent need and comes back at night to work on his/her PC. In such a situation, the owner always has priority over the machine. Just by using the keyboard, the Owner can abort any ongoing computational activity on his/her PC, and ComputeMode will restore the machine to its User Mode in about one minute.
Enhancements:
- UI usability improvements, code cleanup, and fixes were made.
- The client and server system were upgraded.
- New, simpler node import/export was added.
- It is available as a virtual appliance.

XMLBeans project is a technology for accessing XML by binding it to Java types. XMLBeans provides several ways to get at the XML, including:
- Through XML schema that has been compiled to generate Java types that represent schema types. In this way, you can access instances of the schema through JavaBeans-style accessors after the fashion of "getFoo" and "setFoo".
- The XMLBeans API also allows you to reflect into the XML schema itself through an XML Schema Object model.
- A cursor model through which you can traverse the full XML infoset.
- Support for XML DOM.
Start off with your own stuff:
If you want to get right to it with your own XML schema and instance, follow these basic steps:
Install XMLBeans.
Compile your schema. Use scomp to compile the schema, generating and jarring Java types. For example, to create a employeeschema.jar from an employeesschema.xsd file:
scomp -out employeeschema.jar employeeschema.xsd
Write code. With the generated JAR on your classpath, write code to bind an XML instance to the Java types representing your schema. Heres an example that would use types generated from an employees schema:
File xmlFile = new File("c:employees.xml");
// Bind the instance to the generated XMLBeans types.
EmployeesDocument empDoc =
EmployeesDocument.Factory.parse(xmlFile);
// Get and print pieces of the XML instance.
Employees emps = empDoc.getEmployees();
Employee[] empArray = emps.getEmployeeArray();
for (int i = 0; i < empArray.length; i++)
{
System.out.println(empArray[i]);
}
Enhancements:
- Updated to the latest XMLSchema.xsd - January 25, 2006
- Updated XmlBeans to work with SaxonB-8.6.1 in place of SaxonB8.1
- XQuery external variable binding support

Time Sheets are free linux timesheets for project tracking.
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Main features:
User Interface
- Complete redesign including user-friendly organization and navigation
- Collapsible, customizable Toolbar with interactive calendar and timesheet status data
- Scrolling and single day display options for long periods that alleviate "wide" timesheet and compliance problems
- Dynamic, on-screen options to sort and display data in a variety of formats
Administrator Interface
- Ability to copy settings from existing users, projects, etc. for quick creation and set up of new items
- Access to all set up options on a single user or project creation screen
- Various types of reports consolidated and accessible under the main Reports tab
- Improved search, select and assign capabilities for automated approval plans, etc.
- Ability to search for, select and submit multiple timesheets for approval with a single click
- Improved Help menus and Sitemap that act as guides to the new navigation
Look and Feel
- Hierarchical tab navigation with the option to customize the color scheme
- Standard icons and page layout throughout the product
- Continued flexibility for branding and customizing the interface to fit organizational needs
Miscellaneous
- Leave request automation with supervisor review
- Manager reporting on all outstanding time off scheduled
- Option to subtotal by several different parameters in reports
- International character support
- Performance improvements via setting to limit number of items displayed in dropdown menus
- Advanced options for editing approved timesheets to meet specific auditing requirements

Paymaster is an open source free payroll and HR application designed for small to large organisations. Paymaster project works in batch process system for paying employees, using journal entries and a series of ledgers for storing the accounts.

A customisable backed calculates the results to help meet the diverse requirements of payroll. Complex tax laws, leave, varying pay rates, allowances, superannuation are some of the things the payroll system can handle. Paymaster is written for gnome and uses postgresql for its database backend.

APbyAS provides Italian Web-based process re-engineering support.

Each employee survey his own real job and registers activities and times on weekly and annual basis. Results are summarized per unit and whole organization, with totals and averages.

PHP Timeclock is a simple yet effective web-based timeclock system. It allows you to track all employee time as well as upcoming vacations and more, and it can replace manual sign-in/sign-out sheets.

An administration piece is included which allows an administrator to add or delete users, change a users time or password (if using passwords is enabled), and hide the reports from your users where only an admin or a reports user has access to them. These reports can be run to show daily activitiy or for a range of dates, and can be run for all users, or individually for each user.

This product is distributed under the GPL. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GeneralPublic License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

JRelaxTimer is a timer (or alarm clock) that allows Web-users to open specific Web-pages at selected time intervals. JRelaxTimer, for example, could be installed on the company Intranet and used by employees to execute specific tasks at selected time intervals.
Built as a browser-independent and highly-configurable Java Applet, JRelaxTimer could be easily customized with your own graphics and time format to achieve an unlimited variety of appearances and behaviors. JRelaxTimer includes by default 232 images (13 different sets of digits).
JRelaxTimer is composed by some independent components that could be showed or hidden by option (logo, buttons, displays, selectors)
Main features:
- browser-independent, works fine with any browser that support at least Java 1.1
- support two different page selection methods
- customizable background colors
- customizable background images
- customizable graphic images for digits and symbols
- 232 ready to use images (13 sets of digits)
- support for image transparencies
Enhancements:
- The license was changed to the GPL.