Free epiphany software for linux

Mathfun.py project s a rather small Python library that contains some of the more obscure (others would say less useful 8^) mathematical formula/functions that I have always found interesting/amusing.

These include primality tests, fibonacci sequences and turning characters into numbers, among other things. The next paragraph includes a little story about my strange habits as a teenager. The paragraph after that contains some ramblings about primes and formulas.

The paragraph after that hasnt been decided on yet, but you can be assured that it will be more stream-of- consciousness rambling about something mathematic by yours truly.

One of the reasons that this library exists is that, as a junior programmer in high school, I spent an insane amount of time writing BASIC programs on our IIgs that would calculate the first 100 primes or some other such nonsense. I would write it one way, get out a stop watch, run it, record the time it took, rewrite it, rerun it, retime it and calculate the difference as percentage decrease in time. Repeat the previous until you get BASIC that looked like an explosion in a type factory. All in some sort of quest to... well, I dont really know what I was shooting for. I just enjoyed it. Calculating if a number was prime, calculating the prime factorization, calculating the first N prime numbers... Yeah, I was a strange one.

But, in retrospect, all that solitary math kinda helped. While I reinvented many a prime wheel, I did it on my own, which was something of a personal fulfillment once I had learned more of a history of mathematics. And I never forgot most of those formulas that I worked out on that Apple. For instance, mathfun.isprime(number) utilizes most of what I learned back in high school. It iterates through the odd numbers, up to the integer value of the square root of the number in question. I still remember the epiphany that I had that I only needed to calculate through the square root of the number. 8^)

Theres a minor paradox with the calculation of a prime. The quickest way to generate primes would be to only attempt modular arithmetic with prime numbers. However, to do it that way means that you have to generate a list of prime numbers first, which involves a primality test on every odd number up to the square root of the number in question. This would be sloooooow for the primality test for any single number. (For instance, isprime(10000) would involved roughly 50 full primality tests to generate the list needed to be a maximally efficient test on it.) So, we accept that even if were not going to get any results doing (N mod 9), its much quicker to eat those wasted cycles than to determine if 9 is prime first.

However, if youre doing nothing more than simply cranking out prime after prime, it becomes much more efficient to only do the primality test with a list of primes, since (if you start from 2) youve already determined the ealier ones before. (Theres probably a break-even time first (machine dependent) before "determine all primes with primes" becomes more efficient than "crank through the odd numbers".) Its easy to see however, that for very large numbers its much better to only work with primes.

Theres also a minor question of the speed of the data structures used to store the prime list versus the very fast next odd number test. However, Ill leave that one up to the True Computer Scientists.

Browser Bookmarks Menu is a small Gnome applet to allow easy access to your browsers bookmarks, even when your browser is not open.

This applet is like the Bookmarks menu of your preferred browser (e.g. Epiphany, Firefox), but lives in the panel, like the Gnome Menu Bar.

This means that it is always accessible (and Fitts Law compliant), even if you have other windows or applications open (and maximized). You do not have to first launch your browser and then find its bookmarks menu.

Draco GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution based on Slackware 11.0 and featuring packages from pkgsrc 2007Q1.
Main features:
- Kernel 2.6.19
- Glibc 2.3.6
- GCC 3.4.6
- X.org 7.2
- XFCE 4.4.1
- GNOME 2.16.3
- KDE 3.5.6
And many more (678 precompiled packages available and over 8000 from source).
It also contains the following applications:
- Slim
- Firefox
- MPlayer
- Thunderbird
- Gaim
- XChat
- Liferea
- Transmission
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- GQview
- Abiword
- Gnumeric
- Bluefish
- Audacious
- GXine
- Graveman
- SeaMonkey
- Epiphany
- Evolution
- Rhythmbox
- Totem
- KTorrent
- KOffice
- Amarok
- Kaffeine

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.

GNOME-Fx is a set of themes for Mozilla Firefox which tries to let Firefox look like a native GNOME application.
There are five different flavors of GNOME-Fx, which are intented to blend in with different GNOME themes.
If the GNOME theme you are using is not listed above you can opt for using either the GNOME-Fx or GNOME-Fx-blue theme, because most of the widgets automatically adapt to the them. You can also change the themes to adapt it to your GNOME theme. Ill be happy to host your variaton on GNOME-Fx
The themes are based on the GNOME icons which are part the GNOME desktop, Epiphany (the standard GNOME web browser), the Industrial theme of Garrett LeSage and GNOME for Firefox of Marcel Hoffs.
Main features:
- GNOME-Fx: Blends in well with for example the GNOME 2.4 Default Theme. Uses the default green GTK icons.
- GNOME-Fx-blue: Blends in well with for example the Glider / SmoothGNOME Theme. Uses the blue GTK icons.
- GNOME-Fx-Simple: designed for the Simple GNOME theme
- GNOME-Fx-Human: designed for the Ubuntu Human theme
- GNOME-Fx-Industrial: designed for the Industrial and Indubstrial GNOME theme

Gnome Control Center is GNOMEs main interface for configuration of various aspects of your desktop.
Enhancements:
about-me:
- Add a tooltip to the image button to make it accessible (Jens Granseuer)
appearance:
- Add option to add wallpapers via the command line (Jens Granseuer) (#456337)
- Use new GTK+ convenience API for icon view tooltips (Matthias Clasen)
(#455985)
- Bump all tooltips code to GTK 2.11.6 (Jens Granseuer)
- Improve color scheme matching (Jens Granseuer)
- When reading current settings from gconf, get the color scheme from the
GTK theme if necessary to allow matching against themes retrieved via
gnome-theme-info (Jens Granseuer)
- Implement saving of the cursor theme name in metathemes and add a
Default pointer option to the cursor theme list (Denis Washington)
- Simplify tooltip descriptions (Dennis Cranston) (#460111)
- Really unset the gconf key when reverting colors (Jens Granseuer)
- Implement drag-and-drop theme installation (Denis Washington)
- Remove workarounds for initialization problems in early versions of the
capplet (Jens Granseuer)
- Fix cell renderer state logic to not always be on (Jens Granseuer)
- Use cairo to draw the cell renderer selection (Thomas Wood)
- Show readable_name in cursor theme list instead of name (Denis Washington)
- Fix mnemonics and customize theme window title (Thomas Wood) (#461255)
- Fix theme installation (Thomas Wood)
- Update icon cache when installing icon themes (Thomas Wood) (#355486)
- Prevent some memory leaks (Thomas Wood)
- Add controls for applying suggested backgrounds and/or fonts from
metathemes (Denis Washington)
- Only show background/font suggestions if they havent already been
applied (Denis Washington)
- Cope with unset gconf keys and group gconf notifications (Jens Granseuer)
- Only create the custom theme entry when changes are made, and delete it
when the theme is saved (Jens Granseuer)
- Add %F to the exec line so external programs like epiphany can set the
background (Jens Granseuer) (#456337)
- Default to showing the background tab if wallpapers were given on the
command line (Jens Granseuer)
- Use our custom cell renderer for metathemes too, so the previews dont
get shaded (Jens Granseuer) (#461198)
default applications:
- Change custom command entries to be insensitive instead of
noneditable (Matthias Clasen) (#456308)
- Remove spurious desktop entries (Jens Granseuer) (#444787)
keyboard:
- Improved layout and sorting (Sergey Udaltsov) (#455353)
- Implement DND in the selected layouts list (Sergey Udaltsov) (#351936)
- Eliminate up/down buttons in the layout list (Sergey Udaltsov)
network:
- Also use new icon in the window title bar (Denis Washington)
settings daemon:
- Dont forget the Xft callback (Jens Granseuer) (#455992)
themus:
- Update to match theme callback signature (Jens Granseuer)
general:
- Fix crash when no cursor is specified in theme (Frederic Crozat) (#455952)
- General cleanup and leak-plugging (Jens Granseuer, Thomas Wood)
- Dont fail configuring if gstreamer is not available, simply skip the sound
capplet (Jens Granseuer) (#456957)
- Remove spurous AT desktop entries (Jens Granseuer) (#444787)
- Add support for custom theme names saved in metathemes (Denis Washington)
- Re-add basic support for cursor themes for X servers without the Xcursor
extension, like the one in Solaris (Denis Washington)
- When applying a metatheme, check wether to set/unser color scheme gconf
key (Jens Granseuer) (#421866)
- Fix notification of selection changed for GtkTreeView config support (Jens
Granseuer)
- Prevent cursor themes from being recognized as icon themes (Denis Washington)
- Read a cursor themess name from its index.theme file if it has one (Denis
Washington)
- Expand check for empty metatheme color scheme to include blank color scheme
strings (Thomas Wood)
- Add tooltip foreground and background colors to the list of recognized
symbolic colors (Thomas Wood)
updated translations:
- es (Jorge Gonzalez)
- et (Priit Laes)
- fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
- gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
- gu (Ankit Patel)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- lt (Zygimantas Berucka)
- nb (Kjartan Maraas)
- nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
- sv (Daniel Nylander)
- th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
- zh_CN (Funda Wang)