Free fifteen software for linux

pconfig project is a perl script to set up... perl scripts! Allows a perl scripts configuration information to be included within the script for no need for external files. Controlled by internal comments within the script itself (the target script). The output script is also pconfig compatible (if renamed to .pc) to reconfigure if required. Whats the use?

I am the author of a few other perl scripts, some GPL, some not. Two of them are designed to (try to) be as fast as possible. This is especially true for net-check since it is designed to be run every fifteen minutes.

If these programs were required to read a configuration file, parse it, and then verify the options EVERY TIME THEY RAN, it would end up being some serious wasted processor time.

So I put the configuration in the beginning of the scripts. The data is there with no extra effort.

When I released the first version of fireparse, I got e-mail like crazy. Why? I accidentally left my e-mail address in there as the report destination! Oops...

So I decided to write pconfig to be an external program that would set up fireparse and handle (some) sanity checking along the way. Figuring it may help other people (thats why fireparse was first released), I made pconfig fairly generic.

electricsheep software owes its name to Philip K. Dicks novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet.
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated sheep appears. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated fractal flame.
The Interpretation of Dreams contains an artistic, conceptual, and technical explanation, or you can watch the streaming video documentary. Also available is a ten page academic paper to appear in EvoMusArt05.
Enhancements:
- The new libpng api is used, and libpng errors are handled properly.
- The window now has a name.
- The documentation was updated.
- The use of AC_OUTPUT was updated.
- Readonly parts of the cache are handled.
- Files partially downloaded by bittorrent are not played.
- The --show-errors option was added.

EtherDam is a firewall configuration engine that relies on iptables. It presents firewall configuration as a somewhat simpler scripting language thats still flexible enough for most purposes.
So why not just use iptables?
Well, lets just face one thing: iptables is a pain to manage. By pain, I mean a heavy dull throb that seems ready to make your head explode. Its nice to finally have a stateful firewalling facility for Linux, but you have to remember fifteen or so different arrangements of the iptables options just to make a simple bare-metal NAT box. Its enough to send you running back to OpenBSD.
One day, I got tired of that. So I came up with EtherDam.
My goal with EtherDam was to create a simplified firewall configuration language rather than remember or look up several complex incantations of the iptables command. EtherDam is a wrapper; it still uses iptables as a back-end. The processing engine is also fast, though its not extremely well tested.
The language itself is fairly complete--complete enough for a decent firewall--though its not properly documented yet.
Enhancements:
- etherdam.in:
- added IPTABLES command support.
- added MSS command for TCP MSS clamping.
- firewall.conf.5.in: documented MSS command, fixed typos.
- firewall.conf.in: added example MSS command usage.
- configure, configure.ac, etherdam.spec: bumped version number.
- new release (release 0.4)

Jikes RVM is a compiler that translates JavaTM source files as defined in The Java Language Specification into the bytecoded instruction set and binary format defined in The Java Virtual Machine Specification.

You may wonder why the world needs another Java compiler, considering that Sun provides javac free with its SDK. Jikes has five advantages that make it a valuable contribution to the Java community: [OSI Certified Logo]

* Open source. Jikes is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
* Strictly Java compatible. Jikes strives to adhere to both The Java Language Specification and The Java Virtual Machine Specification as tightly as possible, and does not support subsets, supersets, or other variations of the language. The FAQ describes some of the side effects of this strict language conformance.
* High performance. Jikes is a high performance compiler, making it ideal for use with larger projects.
* Dependency analysis. Jikes performs a dependency analysis on your code that provides two very useful features: Incremental builds and makefile generation.
* Constructive Assistance. Jikes strives to help the programmer write better code in two key ways. Jikes has always strived to provide clear error and warning text to assist the programmer in understanding problems, and now with release 1.19 Jikes helps point out common programming mistakes as documented in Effective Java.

Abridged from a FAQ entry which was adapted from some material by Lou Grinzo for an article he wrote.

The fact that Jikes is a high-performance, highly compatible Java compiler that can be used on almost any computing platform makes it an interesting program and worth investigating for almost any Java programmer. But Jikes is also notable because it lies at the center of two events: the adoption of open source philosophy and practice by large corporations, and the continued growth of Java for Linux.

Its worth pointing out that Jikes is not, and is not intended to be, a complete development environment -- it is simply a command line compiler. It should not be considered a replacement for more complete tools, such as Source Navigator or IBMs VisualAge for Java which provide sophisticated graphical IDEs (Integrated Development Environments).

The Jikes compiler was released in binary form in April 1997 on the IBM alphaWorks site. Jikes for Linux was released on 15 July 1998. The response was overwhelming -- Jikes had more downloads in the three months after the announcement than in the fifteen months before the announcement.

Around the end of March 2002, IBM opened a fledgling community hosting location attached to their developerWorks site with Jikes as a founding member. Approximately 3 years later this server was decommissioned and the most active projects migrated into SourceForge.net hosting options. During those three years Jikes was the #1 most popular project every month, often by a large margin. We approached nearly 250,000 downloads while residing at dw/oss, and had been consistently tallying triple digit daily downloads.

Release of Jikes for Linux was soon followed by requests to open up the source. Many notes and comments from users suggested this would be a good idea. The source was released under a liberal license in December 1998 to make a very visible demonstration of IBMs commitment to open standards and to Java Technology, to make Jikes more reliable and accessible, to encourage more widespread use of Java Technology, to encourage standardization of Java Technology, and to gain some experience actually running an open source project. This marked the start of one of IBMs first efforts in the open source arena.

The original alphaWorks version of Jikes was written by Philippe Charles and Dave Shields of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. For awhile after the release of the source they continued to work on the compiler as contributors; however, shortly after the project migrated to developerWorks Open Source Server they were officially moved off onto other projects within IBM. Today there are no IBMers who work on Jikes as part of their job description. Jikes survives today soley based on the free time contributions of members of the open source community.

The source code is available under IBMs Public License, which has been approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) as a fully certified open source license. The project provides access to the complete CVS development tree, which includes not only Jikes, but also the source for the Jacks Test Suite and the Jikes Parser Generator used to build Jikes. Jikes is included in many Open Source Operating Systems. The Jacks Test Suite is a replacement for the Jikestst package.

Mnet is a distributed file store. It is formed by an emergent network of autonomous nodes which self-organize to make the network robust and efficient. A distributed file store is a shared virtual space into which you can put, and from which you can get, files.
Mnet is also an emergent network. An emergent network is one in which the important features of the network result from the interactions of nodes operated by autonomous people or organizations who do not explicitly coordinate with one another.
There are many interesting applications that can be built on top of an emergent network and a distributed file store. The first application that has been written for the Mnet project is a file-sharing application which lets you search for and download files by any kind.
The Mnet project is a Free Software, Open Source project run solely by hackers volunteering in the public interest. It currently has no commercial sponsorship, although there is at least one company that is using related source code. See the related projects page for more information.
Enhancements:
- ported to Mac OS X (including full GUI)
- decentralized metatracking using an idea borrowed from the Chord DHT; Now anyone can run a MetaTracker -- the more the merrier.
- Every fifteen minutes, search for new peers.
- If a peer has stopped responding to your requests, do not forget about that peer, but instead retry that peer in an exponential backoff fashion so that you can reconnect to him when he returns.
- When viewing search results, include datestamps showing when the files were published. You can also search on date of publication.
- added utilscripts/weather.pl. The "Mnet Weather Report" script which tells you which nodes you have peered with recently, and rates the Content Trackers that you have used.
- fixed content tracker bug which gave an error when tracker was searched by all
- IRC nick is equal to your nodeId by default.
- With the default settings, you run a Relay Server.
- When acting as a relay client (i.e., your computer is behind a firewall or NAT), prefer relay servers that give you faster service.
- multiple redundant bootpages: try each one in turn, and try one only when a connection to a metatracker has failed, and then only in order to get new IP address for that particular metatracker.
- Approximately one million bugs and performance issues have been fixed. (Not that Mnet v0.6.2 is a fast way to transfer files.)
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dvdauthor is a simple set of tools to help you author a DVD. The idea is to be able to create menus, buttons, chapters, etc, but for now you can just take an mpeg stream (as created by mplex -f 8 from mjpegtools 1.6.0) and write it to DVD.
dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player.
To start you need mpeg files that contain the necessary DVD VOB packets. These can be generated by passing -f 8 to mplex. See the included utility makevob.
There are 3 steps to building the DVD directory structure on your HDD.
1. Delete a previously authored dvd
dvddirdel [-o dir]
WARNING! This will delete without discrimination the contents of the directory that you specify!
2. Create your titlesets
dvdauthor [-o dir] [audio/video/subpicture options] [chapters]
To create 1 chapter per mpeg, simply do
dvdauthor [-o dir] [a/v/s options] chap1.mpg chap2.mpg chap3.mpg...
To manually specify chapters, use the --chapters option
dvdauthor [-o dir] [a/v/s options] -c chap1a.mpg chap1b.mpg -c chap2a.mpg chap2b.mpg ....
To add chapters every fifteen minutes, do
dvdauthor [-o dir] [a/v/s options] -c 0,15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00,1:15:00... longvideo.mpg
Call dvdauthor for each titleset you want to create. Note that due to the DVD standard, all audio, video, and subpicture options must be set once for the entire titleset; i.e. you cannot mix pal and ntsc video in the same titleset. For that you must generate separate titlesets.
Run dvdauthor -h to see the audio, video, and subpicture options. Note that dvdauthor can autodetect most parameters except the language.
3. Create the table of contents
dvdauthor -T [-o dir]
Viola! You now have a DVD directory structure that will probably work! You can now write this out to your DVD, mini-DVD (CD), or just play it from your HDD. To generate the UDF image to burn to DVD, use mkisofs from cdrtools-1.11a27 or later. Simply pass it the -dvd-video option.
BTW, if you have an old HDD that you use for generating dvd images, you can create /usr/local/etc/dvdauthor.conf or ~/.dvdauthorrc and add the line:
WORKDIR=foo
Then you wont need to specify -o to dvddirgen or dvdauthor. Alternatively, you could just set
WORKDIR=mydvd
to always have it create a DVD in the current working directory.
Enhancements:
- Support of VOBUs without audio or video has been added.
- Reading from file descriptors for VOBs, palette, and XML has been implemented.
- Support for really long subtitles and for full sized PTS/SCR has been added.
- Audio type detection logic has been improved.
- Runtime memory requirement has been substantially reduced.
- YUV handling in spuunmux and subgen has been fixed.
- SVCD subtitling has been fixed.
- NTSC 3:2 pulldown handling has been fixed.
- Handling of audio packets that have no PTS has been fixed.
- Many more minor bugs have been fixed and features have been added. Documentation has been improved.

PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution. PHLAK comes with two light guis (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf.

The story begins with two coffee drinkers from Longview, Texas. James Hartman and Shawn Hawkins were like any other Linux users, hitting Slashdot in the morning, researching numerous open source repositories, and experimenting with interesting projects.

Always security minded, the two developers started looking at live security distributions. Never being completely satisfied with existing projects, the two started on a mission to create the most complete live security Linux distribution.

So began the research. Instead of starting from scratch they decided to look at some of the other preexisting live CD distibution, finally settling on Morphix due to its modularity. After three months of development the initial version was released. Two moths later 0.2 was released with all fifteen pieces of flair.

PHLAK is designed as the security professionals tool kit. It is not meant to turn the unexperienced into a security guru overnight. However, anyone with the desire can learn from the included tools and documentation.

Like any good tool, PHLAK can be used by Sith or Jedi alike. Included in the distribution are all the mainstream tools such as: nmap, nessus, snort, the coronors toolkit, ethereal, and several other security packages.

Some of the other lesser known, yet equally effective, tools include: hping2, proxychains, lczroex, ettercap, kismet, hunt, achilies, brutus, and many others. Make no mistake, this is a real Linux distribution including many common services such as apache, mysql, ssh, iptables, and most other services that are included on any other standard distribution.

To make things more user-friendly, PHLAK currently includes two fast, light-weight window managers, XFCE4 (the default) and Fluxbox. From these window managers the user has easy access to the powerful documentation system. Currently included in the XFCE4 user interface are quick-start buttons to initiate services and different firewall settings for those who are command line impaired.

Remember that PHLAK is still in its infancy. It is constantly progressing towards the level the developers had originally envisioned. The future versions of PHLAK will better harness the modularity of its Morphix origin as well as increase its base of hardware support and detection.

The project team is dedicated to expanding and updating the PHLAK security arsenal as well as making it more available to a broader user base. They foresee it becoming the Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit. Make no mistake, the Internet is an unfriendly environment. Arm yourself well.