Free from prying eyes software for linux

Homespring is a bizarre programming language in the spirit of INTERCAL and Befunge.
Homespring project is designed to superficially resemble English, but hide beneath it a structure so needlessly complicated and ridiculously impractical that it brings tears to the eyes.
Instead of being an excessively low-level language, like most of these efforts are, Homespring aims to be excessively high-level, as you shall see.
Homespring stands for Hatchery Oblivion through Marshy Energy from Snowmelt Powers Rapids Insulated but Not Great. Once you see the language youll know why. One might also call it HOtMEfSPRIbNG, if one so desires. HS will do in a pinch.
Programming in Homespring is hard, mainly because it is so different from other languages. The language closest to Homespring is Hunter, in that it relies on autonomous agents to carry information. Although unlike Hunter, HS has the environment changing the agents, not the other way around. HS also has an extremely rigid structure that you basically have to work around.
As Ive said, its designed to resemble English. It doesnt cheat all that much either. Although its case insensitive, the periods are lexically significant, and most of the words you see are actually keywords.
Even though the most trivial programs can be fiendishly difficult to write in Homespring, programming it is still kind of interesting and fun. Its also fun to know youve written a working program that looks like the one just below.
Enhancements:
- This initial release includes a fast homespring interpreter, a graphical debugger, and several example Homespring programs.

Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java for managing network and Internet resources.

Jawa Open Eyes supports SNMP v1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information, port scanning, and SSL capable URL time response.

The main features include visual network monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.

Falcons Eye project is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack.
Falcons Eye is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack that enhances the visuals, audio, and accessibility of the game, yet retains all the original gameplay, and game features.
Main features:
- mouse-driven interface (keyboard play also supported)
- high-res, isometric graphics with real-time lighting
- ease of play: autopilot, tooltip descriptions of game objects, and more
- digitized sound effects
- MIDI soundtrack (listen to some samples)
- sound effects and keyboard commands are customizable
- retains all NetHack features

WMeyes is a pretty simple application: it sits in the WindowMaker dock, and a pair of eyes track your cursor.
Actually, the program should work in all window managers, but then you dont have a dock to sit it in, in which case you might as well use xeyes.
Enhancements:
- I added changes based upon a patch I found at http://www.shiratori.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/~jir/linux/products/wmeyes/index-e.html which allows one to click upon the eyes and run a program.
- Your command will be fed directly to the shell, so that you can use shell metacharacters or what have you, although you will probably need to escape them. Note that wmeyes does not automatically background the program, so you will probably want to background it yourself.
For example:
# run an xmag whenever the eyes are clicked on
wmeyes -w -e xmag &
# show the number of lines with the word "foo" in them in your mail spool
wmeyes -e xmessage `grep -w foo $MAIL | wc -l` &
# make wmeyes stop working until you have finished with a shell
wmeyes -e xterm
# my personal favorite: make the screen blank when the eyes are clicked on
wmeyes -e xset dpms force off
I also added support for multiple displays at once. Use -d, -display, or --display as many times as you like.

miniCHESS is a chess game WindowMaker dockapp.

miniCHESS was born out of boredom. I warn you... if your a chess enthusiast and play a lot then please use xboard or some other chess gui.

Even though miniCHESS has that kinda cool factor, it does get hard on the eyes. I like using miniCHESS for games in which Im in no hurry to finish and go on for a couple days.

Sorry but miniCHESS has no save/restore features yet.

Usage:

miniCHESS has a variety of options:

-h help
-t play text game (def = mouse game)
-r more random moves by the engine
-a hard, engine will also think on your time (def = no)
-d n max search depth used by the engine (def = 29)
-c n max time the engine gets to make a move (def = inf)
-T n size of the transposition table (def = 150001)
-C n size of the cache table (def = 18001)
-k #color background color for a checkmated king (def = #ff0000)
-b #color background color for the black pieces (def = #000000)
-f #color foreground color for the black pieces (def = #ffffff)
-1 #color color for the dark squares (def = #c8c365)
-2 #color color for the light squares (def = #77a26d)

If you specify a search depth (-d) to (say) 4 ply, the program will search until all moves have been examined to a depth of 4. If you set a maximum time (-t) per move and also use the depth option, the search will stop at the specified time or the specified depth, whichever comes first.

Gnuchess is a cpu hog while its thinking. Be aware. When the hard option (-a) is specified then the engine thinks all the time and pins your cpu.

Also gnuchess can be a memory hog. Specifying the size of the transposition and cache tables will modify the memory used. See the memory usage excerpt from the gnuchess FAQ below.

White piece colors are the reverse of what is specified for the black pieces.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.
There are a lot of reasons why somebody would want to install an LFS system. The question most people raise is "why go through all the hassle of manually installing a Linux system from scratch when you can just download an existing distribution?". That is a valid question which I hope to answer for you.
The most important reason for LFSs existence is teaching people how a Linux system works internally. Building an LFS system teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together, and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own taste and needs.
One of the key benefits of LFS is that you are in control over your system without having to rely on somebody elses Linux implementation. You are in the drivers seat now and are able to dictate every single thing such as the directory layout and boot script setup. You will also know exactly where, why and how programs are installed.
Another benefit of LFS is that you can create a very compact Linux system. When you install a regular distribution, you end up installing a lot of programs you probably would never use. Theyre just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. Its not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was aproximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.
If we were to compare a Linux distribution with a hamburger you buy at a supermarket or fast-food restaurant, you would end up eating it without knowing precisely what it is you are eating, whereas LFS gives you the ingredients to make a hamburger. This allows you to carefully inspect it, remove unwanted ingredients, and at the same time allow you to add ingredients to enhance the flavour of your hamburger. When you are satisfied with the ingredients, you go on to the next part of putting it together. You now have the chance to make it just the way you like it: broil it, bake it, deep-fry it, barbeque it, or eat it raw.
Another analogy that we can use is that of comparing LFS with a finished house. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house, but its up to you to install plumbing, electrical outlets, kitchen, bathtub, wallpaper, etc.
Another advantage of a custom built Linux system is added security. You will compile the entire system from source, thus allowing you to audit everything, if you wish to do so, and apply all the security patches you want or need to apply. You dont have to wait for somebody else to provide a new binary package that fixes a security hole. Besides, you have no guarantee that the new package actually fixes the problem (adequately). You never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do it yourself.
Enhancements:
- The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the x86-6.2-3 version of LFS LiveCD. This version is built using LFS 6.2 and many Beyond Linux From Scratch packages from the Subversion branch. Source packages for LFS 6.2, and the LFS book itself, are included on the live CD. The CD is also suitable as a host for building x86 and x86_64 Cross LFS systems. Other features and bugfixes: the CD supports hibernation; the CD file system can be written to; the CD contains a visually pleasing and easy-to-use window manager, XFce...

hardmon project can monitor hardware indicators for temperature, voltage, fan speed etc... of a running system with a graphical panel. The default configuration allows to monitor up to 3 temperatures, 3 fan speeds and 6 voltages. This tool is more particularly adequate for bi-processor systems.

Why:

I needed a tool to monitor all the numerous indicators of my Abit BP6 in an eye catch.