Free gossip girl software for linux

ppsei short from PPS Extract Images is a simple command line program, which tries to extract images from Microsoft PowerPoint documents (PPS/PPT).

Because i get a lot of mails with attached PPS/PPT in, containing some nice images (about universe, about pretty girls, etc). The sender people are using this file format as an image-container, or image-encapsulator.

They could use tar/zip/..., but somehow PPS is the general. On *nix systems only resource-consume application can handle this file formats (openoffice, wine + win.exe), so i decided to write this tool.

Currently only JPEG and PNG files can be extracted. Because the PPS file format is not so well-documented as the gnumeric :-), there is no guarantee, that all images will be grabbed correctly. But the experience is, that it works!

As i said, this is a command line program: you can call it from SHELL (or from favorite email software). It takes only the PPS file(s) as argument, and will extract all detected images to the current directory:

$ ppsei universe.pps beauty-islands.ppt
...
$ gqview (start here some image viewer application, to see the result)

&MP3FS is A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. This was written to enable me to use my FLAC collection with software and/or hardware which only understands MP3. e.g. gmediaserver to a netgear MP101 mp3 player.
MP3FS is also a novel alternative to traditional mp3 encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the files you want encoded and copy them somewhere!
How it Works:
When a file is opened, the decoder and encoder are initialised and the file metadata is read. At this time the final filesize can be determined as we only support constant bitrate mp3s.
ID3v2 tags are created from the vorbis comments in the flac file. They are located at the start of the file. As such, an application scanning a directory to read tags should not cause too much of a performance hit as the actual encoder does not need to be invoked (depending on how much data the read asks for).
A special exception to this is when an application tries to read the very last block first. Many applications do this to look for an id3v1 tag (stored in the last 128 bytes of the file). When this is detected, the filesystem simply return zeros (I dont support id3v1 tags). This dramatically speeds up applications, however it could potentially lead to corrupt mp3 files if the zeros are still in kernel cache when the application comes back to read the actual audio sequentially. In my experimentation this has not happened, I always get another read for the final block.
As the file is read, it is transcoded into an internal per-file buffer. This buffer continues to grow while the file is being read until the whole file is transcoded in memory. The memory is freed only when the file is closed. This simplifies the implementation.
Seeking within a file will cause the file to be transcoded up to the seek point (if not already done). This is not usually a problem since most programs will read a file from start to finish. Future enhancements may provide true random seeking.
For build instructions see INSTALL
Usage:
mount your filesystem like this: (you will probably have to be root)
mp3fs musicdir bitrate mountpoint [-o fuse_options]
e.g.:
mp3fs /mnt/music 256 /mnt/mp3 -o allow_other,ro
Here are the original files:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/music/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10267876 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23512276 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23332187 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 26402936 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 21591252 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 16719855 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 33454889 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 32073747 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 17614217 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 65406696 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 18651734 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 25055200 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 28060023 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 11432008 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.flac
And now you can use the (virtual) mp3 files from the MP3FS mountpoint:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2446849 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3197934 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3467503 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4003745 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3414845 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2413413 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4348572 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5132656 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3099704 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10542719 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3210041 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3449127 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4098213 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2337344 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.mp3
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ id3info /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
*** Tag information for /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
=== TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME v3.96.1
=== TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Soothe
=== TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Smashing Pumpkins
=== TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Pisces Iscariot
=== TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1
*** mp3 info
MPEG1/layer III
Bitrate: 128KBps
Frequency: 44KHz
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ time cp /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3 /tmp/
real 0m12.917s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.020s
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ xmms /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/*
Enhancements:
- A segfault and several memory leaks were fixed.

ScryMUD project is a MUD with a Java client.
ScryMUD is a MUD written completely from scratch that has a full feature set including persistant belongings, a ree-based skill/spell system, game-navigated vehicles, complex scripting, player-owned stores and houses, and much more. The distribution also comes with Hegemon, a Java client that provides a nice UI for ScryMUDs Online Building.
Main features:
- Completely original world and code. We have 6000+ rooms, 400+ mobs and 400+ objects.
- Integrated Java Client (applet/application) which offers a nice interface to the game and to the Online Building tools.
- Player controlled shops (you get the goods, set the prices, and collect the dough.)
- Can Brew potions. This requires the brew skill, a cauldron, and the necessary ingredients.
- Can Scribe Scrolls. Requires a scroll, pen, and knowledge of the spell.
- Spells become less powerful when there are many scrolls/potions that can cast them in the game. This balances the above features.
- Skills and Spells are learned in a tree-like manner. You must learn the pre-requesites to at least 50% before you can move on to the skills/spells it enables. So, you can customize the character to your liking and are limited only by the number of practices you have.
- Game-navigated vehicles (though not widely used in the game yet.)
- Complex NPC scripting so that the builders can make quests and other interesting things.
- Mobs have some personality traits, which can influence their behavior in battle and afterwards. Some will track you down and kill you (and then return to their starting point. Others may heal you if you are badly hurt.
- Bulletin boards for in-game communication, as well as gossip, yell, and other channels.
- Banks to keep your cash safe for you.
- Configurable ANSI color.
- Some multi-lingual capability.
- Released under the GPL
Enhancements:
- This release includes the addition of weather, several new spells and socials, minor improvements to ranged combat, and assorted bugfixes.
- Daemonizing code in particular should be a bit safer now.

Hanihani Operation Sanctuary project is an English adaptation of a Japanese visual novel game.
The girl that fell out of the blue.
And the protagonists life, which began to take a turn little by little into the realm of the extraordinary starting from that very day.
- Nao-kun, if you dont get up soon, youre going to be late.
The new school term started today. The protagonists childhood friend, Honami, has kept telling him that hes not a child anymore, and yet continues to come to wake him up. They proceed as they always have to "Hasumidai Academy", which stands atop a hill ... but this time around, as second-year students.
- Naoki, Im going on ahead of you!
And the protagonists cousin, Matsuri, zips past the two of them. After having lost both parents in a terrible accident 5 years ago, the protagonist Naoki Kuzumi was taken in by Matsuris parents. And now, Matsuri herself -- who had been so opposed to Naokis moving in back then -- has become a freshman at Hasumidai Academy.
These ordinary, ordinary days, stretching on forever.
... but then, one day, up on the roof of school ...
Enhancements:
- RTM, all platforms.
- Initial page release. Currently in QC. Expect RTM for all platforms this weekend.

fortune-mod-powerpuff project consists of fortune cookies from the Power Puff Girls.

fortune-mod-powerpuff is a compilation of quotes from the Cartoon Network series "Power Puff Girls". The quotes have been compiled from various sources on the Web.

Examples:

Narrator: Sugar .. Spice .. and everything Nice
These are the ingredients to the perfect little girl.
But Professor Utonium accidentally added one ingredient to the
concoction: Chemical X
Thus, the Powerpuff Girls were born. Using their ultra superpowers,
Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup have dedicated their lives to
fighting crime and the forces of evil!

Blossom: Oh ... um ... excuse me, Mr. Zombie, sir.
Abracadaver: Wha.?
Blossom: Could you stop destroying Townsville with your evil zombie magic?
Bubbles, Buttercup: Please?

Slug: Fashionably late again, I see. So fashionable you missed the party.