Free france software for linux

nxtvepg is a decoder for nexTView EPG, an Electronic TV Programme Guide for the analog domain (as opposed to the various digital EPGs that come with most digital broadcasts, although you can receive Nextview EPG digitally, too).

The project enables you to receive and browse free TV programme schedules for all of the major networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium with an analog TV card, without access to the internet.

KGeography is a geography learning tool.
Main features:
- Browse the maps clicking in a map division to see its name
- The game tells you a map division name and you have to click on it
- The game tells you a capital and you have to guess the division it belongs to
- The game tells you a division and you have to guess its capital
- The game shows you a map division flag and you have to guess its name
- The game tells you a map division name and you have to guess its flag
Maps available in current release are:
- Africa
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- North and Central America
- South America
- Spain
- USA
Enhancements:
New maps included:
- Asia
- Austria
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Italy by provinces
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- World

SkTvPrograms is a superkaramba theme that read a XMLTV file and display what is on Tv now.

It uses XMLTV files (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/) and PyXML.

Tested with XMLTV 0.5.42 and tv_grab_fr (France), tv_grab_it (Italy), tv_grab_no (Norway)

News Streamer provides a script to play the most recent France 2 news report with Mplayer.

The French TV station France 2 has been kind enough to make its news broadcasts available on the Internet. However, this has been done in a way thats not particularly friendly to non-Microsoft products.

This script makes things easier by checking for the availability of the most recent news report and then playing it using Mplayer.

The checking for the availability of an episode is done using a mmsrip.

If its useful to you to watch the news at a different speed, a speed parameter may be passed to this script (eg f2 0.5 to play at half speed)

If the most recent episode is not available, this script will keep searching back until it finds the most recent available episode.

It wont keep searching for ever, however, and gives up after 10 episodes.

To be honest, if it doesnt find anything after 10 episodes it probably means that theres a problem at their end, theyve change their URL format, or youve got some kind of network trouble.

Data::SecsPack is a Perl module pack and unpack numbers in accordance with SEMI E5-94.

SYNOPSIS

#####
# Subroutine interface
#
use Data::SecsPack qw(bytes2int config float2binary
ifloat2binary int2bytes
pack_float pack_int pack_num
str2float str2int
unpack_float unpack_int unpack_num);

$big_integer = bytes2int( @bytes );

$old_value = config( $option );
$old_value = config( $option => $new_value);

($binary_magnitude, $binary_exponent) = float2binary($magnitude, $exponent, @options);

($binary_magnitude, $binary_exponent) = ifloat2binary($imagnitude, $iexponent, @options);

@bytes = int2bytes( $big_integer );

($format, $floats) = pack_float($format, @string_floats, [@options]);

($format, $integers) = pack_int($format, @string_integers, [@options]);

($format, $numbers, @string) = pack_num($format, @strings, [@options]);

$float = str2float($string, [@options]);
(@strings, @floats) = str2float(@strings, [@options]);

$integer = str2int($string, [@options]);
(@strings, @integers) = str2int(@strings, [@options]);

@ingegers = unpack_int($format, $integer_string, @options);

@floats = unpack_float($format, $float_string, @options);

@numbers = unpack_num($format, $number_string), @options;

#####
# Class, Object interface
#
# For class interface, use Data::SecsPack instead of $self
#
use Data::SecsPack;

$secspack = Data::SecsPack; # uses built-in config object

$secspack = new Data::SecsPack(@options);

$big_integer = bytes2int( @bytes );

($binary_magnitude, $binary_exponent) = $secspack->float2binary($magnitude, $exponent, @options);

($binary_magnitude, $binary_exponent) = $secspack->ifloat2binary($imagnitude, $iexponent, @options);

@bytes = $secspack->int2bytes( $big_integer );

($format, $floats) = $secspack->pack_float($format, @string_integers, [@options]);

($format, $integers) = $secspack->pack_int($format, @string_integers, [@options]);

($format, $numbers, @strings) = $secspack->pack_num($format, @strings, [@options]);

$integer = $secspack->str2int($string, [@options])
(@strings, @integers) = $secspack->str2int(@strings, [@options]);

$float = $secspack->str2float($string, [@options]);
(@strings, @floats) = $secspack->str2float(@strings, [@options]);

@ingegers = $secspack->unpack_int($format, $integer_string, @options);

@floats = $secspack->unpack_float($format, $float_string, @options);

@numbers = $secspack->unpack_num($format, $number_string, @options);

Generally, if a subroutine will process a list of options, @options, that subroutine will also process an array reference, @options, [@options], or hash reference, %options, {@options}. If a subroutine will process an array reference, @options, [@options], that subroutine will also process a hash reference, %options, {@options}. See the description for a subroutine for details and exceptions.

The subroutines in the Data::SecsPack module packs and unpacks numbers in accordance with SEMI E5-94. The E5-94 establishes the standard for communication between the equipment used to fabricate semiconductors and the host computer that controls the fabrication. The equipment in a semiconductor factory (fab) or any other fab contains every conceivable known microprocessor and operating system known to man. And there are a lot of specialize real-time embedded processors and speciallize real-time embedded operating systems in addition to the those in the PC world.

The communcication between host and equipment used packed nested list data structures that include arrays of characters, integers and floats. The standard has been in place and widely used in China, Germany, Korea, Japan, France, Italy and the most remote corners on this planent for decades. The basic data structure and packed data formats have not changed for decades.

This stands in direct contradiction to the common conceptions of many in the Perl community and most other communities. The following quote is taken from page 761, Programming Perl third edition, discussing the pack subroutine:

"Floating-point numbers are in the native machine format only. Because of the variety of floating format and lack of a standard "network" represenation, no facility for interchange has been made. This means that packed floating-point data written on one machine may not be readable on another. That is a problem even when both machines use IEEE floating-point arithmetic, because the endian-ness of memory representation is not part of the IEEE spec."

There are a lot of things that go over the net that have industry or military standards but no RFCs. So unless you dig them out, you will never know they exist. While RFC and military standards may be freely copyied, industry standards are usually copyrighted. This means if you want to read the standard, you have to pay whatever the market bears. ISO standards, SEMI stardards, American National Standards, IEEE standards beside being boring are expensive. In other words, you do not see them flying out the door at the local Barnes and Nobles. In fact, you will not even find them inside the door.

It very easy to run these non RFC standard protocols over the net. Out of 64,000 ports, pick a port of opportunity (hopefully not one of those low RFC preassigned ports) and configure the equipment and host to the same IP and port. Many times the software will allow a remote console that is watch only. The watch console may even be a web server on port 80. If there is a remote soft console, you can call up or e-mail the equipment manufacturers engineer in say Glouster, MA, USA and tell him the IP and port so he can watch his manchine mangle a cassette of wafers with a potential retail value of half million dollars.

SEMI E5-94 and their precessors do standardize the endian-ness of floating point, the packing of nested data, used in many programming languages, and much, much more. The endian-ness of SEMI E5-94 is the first MSB byte, floats sign bit first. Maybe this is because it makes it easy to spot numbers in a packed data structure.
The nested data has many performance advantages over the common SQL culture of viewing and representing data as tables. The automated fabs of the world make use of SEMI E5-94 nested data not only for real-time communication (TCP/IP RS-2332 etc) between machines but also for snail-time processing as such things as logs and performance data.

Does this standard communications protocol ensure that everything goes smoothly without any glitches with this wild mixture of hardware and software talking to each other in real time? Of course not. Bytes get reverse. Data gets jumbled from point A to point B. Machine time to test software is non-existance. Big ticket, multi-million dollar fab equipment has to work to earn its keep. And, then there is the everyday business of suiting up, with humblizing hair nets, going through air and other showers with your favorite or not so favorite co-worker just to get into the clean room. And make sure not to do anything that will scatch a wafer with a lot of Intel Pentiums on them. It is totally amazing that the product does get out the door.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.
Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others.
Moodle has 50 language packs, including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
Main features:
- Overall design of Moodle
- Site management
- User management
- Course management
- Auto-linking
- Mathematics notation
- Media plugins
- Multi-language content
- An "Upload File" assignment
- An "Offline" assignment
- A "Repeating" chat with public session logs
- A "Open" chat event
- A Choice with anonymous results
- A Choice with non-anonymous results
- A Choice that allows you to update anytime
- A Standard forum for general use
- Each person posts one discussion
- A single discussion
- Teacher-Defined Glossary
- Learner-Defined Glossary
- A glossary of common terms
- A graded journal
Enhancements:
- The four big headline features are Roles (a complete new architecture for assigning people permissions), the XML database schema (which now supports a wider range of databases), a new admin interface (designed to make it much easier to find settings and configure Moodle properly), and the Unit testing framework (which allows developers to write unit tests that can be run as part of a system check to make sure Moodle code is performing as expected).