Free fast and easy software for linux

Fast File Search is a crawler for FTP servers and SMB shares that can be found on Windows or UNIX systems running Samba.
It provides a web interface for searching files. It is optimized for searching files by a wildcard when there are some normal (not * or ?) chars specified in the beginning or in the end of the mask (for example *.iso).
Fast File Search crawler runs on UNIX (currently only Linux has been tested but I do not now any reasons why it should not work on other UNIXes). Fast File Search uses MySQL database, web interface needs a web server with PHP >= 4.0.3 and the crawler needs some perl modules.
The crawler (ffsearch.pl) crawls the network (FTP servers from the list and all reachable SMB hosts on the local network) and stores the information about files into database. It is invoked at certain times each day via crontab entries.
There are two modes of operation of the crawler: complete crawl and incremental crawl. The crawler expects a command line argument that tells crawler which mode to run (-c or --complete for complete crawl, -i or --incremental for incremental crawl). Both modes retrieve a list of the active SMB hosts in all workgroups.
The complete crawl tries to scan all active hosts and all hosts that are listed in database. The complete crawl should be run once a day.
The incremental crawl tries to scan active hosts and hosts listed in database that have not been scanned since the last complete crawl because they were unreachable. The incremental crawl should be run several times a day, for example each 3 hours.
How does the crawler get know whether the host has been crawled since the last complete crawl?
Each time the complete crawl is executed, the expire count is incremented first. When the host is crawled, expire count is set to zero. So all hosts whose expire count > 0 were not reachable since the last complete crawl. Moreover, when expire count reaches value specified in configuration (i.e. it was unreachable during the time period of complete crawls) the information about files on the "expired" host is deleted from database.
Web interface is used to search the files in database, details how to search are described in the Help section of the search page.
You can also add a FTP server to a FTP server list, edit FTP server in the list or delete FTP server from the list through the web interface. So that anybody could not do anything with the server list only the record about abcdef is editable from host abcdef. There are also admins who can edit all records in the server list. The admins login through the web interface.
Enhancements:
- fixed few bugs in the crawler
- added a possibility to exclude some SMB shares
- www: improved Russian and Ukrainian translation

FAPG is a tool to generate list of audio files (WAV, MP3, Ogg, etc.) in various formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful for quickly creating a playlist of a large number of audio files.

It is coded in C to be as fast as possible, and does not use any specific audio library (like ID3Lib).
This allow you to deploy it faster and easier, and to have better performances since the less informations are loaded.
In the other hand, this tool is not (yet) compatible with all the known formats.

Here are some examples for usage :

Generate a PLS playlist for an album :
fapg --format=pls --output=~/path/to/album/list.pls ~/path/to/album

You have a file server using Samba which shares a large amount of audio files for Windows powered computers using Winamp.
The directory on the server containing the files is "/samba/mp3" and is visible on the Windows network as "serveurmp3" :
fapg --backslash --output=/samba/mp3/list.m3u --prefix=servermp3 --recursive --windows /samba/mp3

An HTML playlist for an album :
fapg --output=fapg.html ~/path/to/album
Here is the result : fapg.html

Fast Video Download enables you to save embedded video files from various video-hosting servers.
Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:
Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Bubblare.dk, CollegeHumor.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, Danerd.com, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, HI5 (VideoEgg), My Space, MetaCafe, News.NTV.ru, PornoTube, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac.
Main features:
- Just in ONE click on the status-bar or custom toolbar icon, FVD immediately open the regular "Save As" dialog with already placed video title and extension.
- FVD supports additional video formats at Video, Break.com, Blip.TV. You can choose desired format via Preferences.
- FVD is able to pick any multimedia links from embeded objects on ordinary pages
- If theres only single link, standard dialog open immediately. Otherwise, links are listed in pop-up window.
- Processing of embedded YouTube video objects: Special download link will appear under every embedded YouTube Flash-Player posted on common pages such as blogs and web-boards.
- At last, FVD supports DownThemAll and FlashGot: You can turn on interaction with your desired download manager in preferences.

Fast Logging Project for Snort is designed to gather alerts with payload from distributed snort sensors on a central server and to store them in a database (MySQL and PostgreSQL are supported).
On the sensor, the output is written to a process called sockserv. This process is threaded; one thread receives and buffers the alert packets, and the other thread forwards them to a central server.
The output is decoupled from snort, which can proceed in sniffing instead of waiting for the output plugins. At the central server, a process called servsock gathers all alerts from the remote sensors and feeds them to the database.
A short description of alerts with high priority together with the database ID can be sent via email to a list of recipients.
Main features:
- Decoupling of the output from snort. Snort can work on new packets instead of processing the output.
- Buffering of alerts on the sensor. This is useful if you have a shortage on your network to the central server or the servsock process on the central server is not running (maybe it will be restarted due to a change to a newer version...)
- Buffering of alerts on the central server. It is not uncommon that the database (especially MySQL) is hanging during a high input rate or the rate is faster than the database is able to store.
- Fast writing to the database via an unix domain socket.
- E-Mail alerting on high priority alerts.
- Drop feature for the worst case. At least the basic alert informations are still available either via E-Mail or on stdout/syslog.
- Since version 1.0.6 the alerts which should be dropped on the central server if servsock exits are written to a swap file. So this data is still availabe.
- If alerts have to been dropped because the high water mark was reached then these data are not written to the swap file.
Enhancements:
- Several checks were added, the alert data from Snort got a tag, and a restart of Snort is now checked.
- getpacket now has base 64 support.
- The statistics are now generated via the control thread so some signals are no longer necessary.
- The exit handler was rewritten and a cache for signatures was added.
- This cache can accelerate the insert rate by up to a factor of two and is implemented as a red black tree.
- During runtime, the only SELECT statement is for the signature ID, and all other operations are INSERT statements.
- The idea is to cache all signatures that caused an alert.

Fast MD5 Implementation in Java is a heavily optimized implementation of the MD5 hashing algorithm written in Java.
Fast MD5 Implementation in Java includes an optional native method for even greater speed improvements.
How Fast Is It?
Short answer:Much faster than any other Java implementation that I have tested and (surprisingly) even faster than the native, non-Java MD5 implementation on some systems.
Long answer:First of all, it is important to note that the term "fast" is used here in relative terms. The implementation of the MD5 message digest algorithm available on this page is written in Java and is fast compared with other implementations written in Java, both because it is heavily optimized by itself and because there is an optional native method that makes it even faster when the platform supports it. How it compares to a sensible implementation written in a language, such as C, that is compiled directly to machine code, is heavily dependent upon how good of a job the JIT compiler in your JVM does in compiling the code or whether you are able to use the optional native method.
Enhancements:
- Martin West contributed a bug fix and some code refactoring to make all targets work out of the box in the Ant build file. Previously, the "dist" target did not work if the "docs" directory was not present.

Fast Genetic Algorithm is a simple yet powerful implementation of a general genetic algorithm, and provides many types of crossover and selection procedures.
It is suitable to solve mathematical problems such as combinatorical optimization ones, as well as to build artificial life simulations.
Written in C++, the library is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, and its easy to incorporate in other applications.
Further improvements include parallelization of the algorithm in multi-processor environments and general performance optimizations.
You can download the current development snapshot, which is a working but not fully tested version of the library.
Enhancements:
- Dynamic arrays were fixed to compile even on non-C99 compilers (like MSVC).
- A switch to choose whether to preserve the fittest individual across generations was added.
- The pthreads-win32 library was included in the package, as well as Visual C++ and Dev-C++ projects to easily build the source code on Windows.
- A function that computes the standard deviation of fitness values was added (thanks to Jonas Neubert for the contribution).

Config::Fast is an extremely fast configuration file parser.

SYNOPSIS

# default config format is a space-separated file
company "Supercool, Inc."
support nobody@nowhere.com


# and then in Perl
use Config::Fast;

%cf = fastconfig;

print "Thanks for visiting $cf{company}!n";
print "Please contact $cf{support} for support.n";

This module is designed to provide an extremely lightweight way to parse moderately complex configuration files. As such, it exports a single function - fastconfig() - and does not provide any OO access methods. Still, it is fairly full-featured.

Heres how it works:

%cf = fastconfig($file, $delim);

Basically, the fastconfig() function returns a hash of keys and values based on the directives in your configuration file. By default, directives and values are separated by whitespace in the config file, but this can be easily changed with the delimiter argument (see below).

When the configuration file is read, its modification time is first checked and the results cached. On each call to fastconfig(), if the config file has been changed, then the file is reread. Otherwise, the cached results are returned automatically. This makes this module great for mod_perl modules and scripts, one of the primary reasons I wrote it. Simply include this at the top of your script or inside of your constructor function:

my %cf = fastconfig(/path/to/config/file.conf);

If the file argument is omitted, then fastconfig() looks for a file named $0.conf in the ../etc directory relative to the executable. For example, if you ran:

/usr/local/bin/myapp

Then fastconfig() will automatically look for:

/usr/local/etc/myapp.conf

This is great if youre really lazy and always in a hurry, like I am.

If this doesnt work for you, simply supply a filename manually. Note that filename generation does not work in mod_perl, so youll need to supply a filename manually.