Free homebrew heaven software for linux

MythTV project is a suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.
MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote.
Main features:
- Basic live-tv functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
- Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
- Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
- Compresses video in software using rtjpeg (from Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4 (from libavcodec). Full support for Hardware MPEG-2 encoder cards (Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350). Preliminary support for DVB cards and the new pcHDTV tuner card.
- Support for the (very nice looking) hardware MPEG-2 decoder and TV out present on the Hauppauge PVR-350.
- Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
- Grabs program information using xmltv.
- A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
The television portion allows you to do the following:
- You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.
- You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one program at a time.
- You can have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the Master backend.
- You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any program that was recorded by any of the servers. Clients can be diskless and controlled entirely by a remote control.
- You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2, MJPEG, DVB or HDTV capture devices. With appropriate hardware, MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and satellite TV systems.
- Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from Zap2It.com, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called DataDirect, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs that can be recorded if you dont have enough tuners.
Other modules in MythTV include:
- MythGallery, a picture-viewing application
- MythVideo, a media-viewer for content not created within MythTV
- MythDVD, a DVD viewer / ripper
- MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3 and FLAC
- MythGame
- MythWeather
- MythNews, a RSS news grabber
- MythBrowser, a web browser
- MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web browser. With MythWeb, you can schedule recordings, delete files, change keybindings and more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program over the Internet and have it immediately acted on by the scheduler.
- MythPhone, phone and videophone using SIP.

Messiggy is a software that contains database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.

Messeir was a comet hunter, and the objects in his list -- galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters -- were often mistaken for comets by astronomers of his time. Messiers list contains many of the most beautiful objects in the heavens.

From the glorius Andromeda galaxy to the wispy delights of the Trifid Nebula, these celestial visions are often part of the "Messier Marathon", a personal contest to view all 110 objects in a single night.

This version of Messiggy is a beta release. Select an object from the main panel, and the program will display an informational window describing the object. Future versions will include:

Annotations

Annotations attach observation notes and images (yours, or someone elses) to a Messier Object.

Star Charts

Future versions of Messigy will plot several types of star charts.

Marathon tracker

A tool for organizing and recording a Messier Marathon.

Internationalization

The final releases of Messiggy will support interfaces in languages other than English. Given the talents of my lovely wife, the initial version will likely include a Spanish translation.

As always, Im open to suggestions.

Edastro places ever changing astrology charts for current time on your desktop.

The package contains 8 themes:

-2 (a black and a white) standard wheel charts
-2 standard wheel charts with hourglass look effect
-2 aspect/midpoint grids
-2 dispositor hierarchy charts

All the themes made in two differend colors, for dark and light desktop (for some dark themes an alternate background included with white shadow). The themes updating every 2 minutes as the sky spins a half degree. Click on the charts to display larger version.

The themes using the unbelievably good freeware ASTROLOG made by Walter D. Pullen (www.astrolog.org). I included an astrolog executable (compiled on 32bit without graphics) in the theme, because probably few able or have time to build it. Imagemagick used to resize images, make them still readable and transparent, and view them.

###To set up a theme:
1, Find out Your location coordinates. You can use these websites:
http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi?lang=e or http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp
2, Extract the theme anywhere, change to that directory and start the !SETUP install script from command line and Answer the questions. Thats all...

###Playing with settings:
Check astrolog.dat config file for the calculation settings. Check the astrolog helpfile from its homepage to read about command line parameters, the 7 chart types etc.

###Possible problems, solutions:
If there is a problem try to rerun the !SETUP script.
If Astrolog executable is not working in Your system, get the source from www.astrolog.org and build a new astrolog, then copy it to the theme folder.

###Known problems:
The theme sometimes flashes on update

Perlbug::Interface::Web is a web interface to perlbug database.

SYNOPSIS

my $o_web = Perlbug::Interface::Web->new;

print $o_web->top;

print $o_web->request(help);

print $o_web->links;

METHODS

new

Create new Perlbug::Interface::Web object.
my $web = Perlbug::Interface::Web->new;

setup

Setup Perlbug::Interface::Web
$o_web->setup($cgi);

check_user

Access authentication via http, we just prime ourselves with data from the db as well.

menus

Return menu of system, designed for vertical format. Wraps logo, title and links

print $o_web->menus();

logo

Return logo of system with href=hard_wired_url

print $o_web->logo();

get_title

Return title of current page

print $o_web->get_title();

summary

Return summary of open/closed bugs

print $o_web->summary();

links

Return links of system, with adminfaq inserted if appropriate, configured links and object search forms.

print $o_web->links();

index

Display the index results here...

get_request

Return the req value for this request

my $req = $self->get_request;

set_command

Set the command type for the rest of the process, based on the input and operation

my $cmd = $o_web->set_command($req);

commands

Return command menu buttons for request given

print $o_web->commands($req);

switch

Return appropriate method call for request(else index), using internal CGI object

my $method = $o_web->switch([$req]); # set $method=($call|index)

start

Return appropriate start header data for web request, includes start table.

print $o_web->start();

form

Return form with appropriate name and target etc.

print $o_web->form(menus);

top

Return consistent top of page.

print $o_web->top($req, $cmd);

request

Handle all web requests (internal print)

$o_web->request($call);

target2file

Return appropriate dir/file.ext for given target string

my $filename = $o_base->target2file(header);

# -> /home/richard/web/header.html

finish

Return appropriate finishing html
Varies with framed, includes table finish

print $o_web->finish($req);

overview

Wrapper for doo method

graph

Display pie or mixed graph for groups of bugs etc., mixed to come.

date

Wrapper for search by date access

create

Wrapper for object creation

$o_web->create($obj, %data);

object_handler

Wrapper for object access: no ids = search form

$o_web->object_handler($me_thod, $oid); # o_cgi comes from the heavens

hist

History mechanism for bugs and users.

Move formatting to Formatter::history !!!

headers

Headers for all objects (message, note, ...) by id

$o_web->headers(patch, $id);

bidmid

Wrapper for bugid and messageid access

spec

Returns specifications for the Perlbug system.

$dynamic =~ s/ />/g;
$dynamic =~ s/b(http:.+?perlbug.cgi)b/$1/gi;
$dynamic =~ s/b([ |&.t;]+@.+?.(?:com|org|net|edu))b/$1/gi;

webhelp

Web based help for perlbug.

print $web->webhelp;

mailhelp

Web based mail help for perlbug.

print $web->mailhelp;

delete

Wrapper for delete access

sql

Open field sql query processor

todo

To do list, may be appended to

adminfaq

adminFAQ

web_query

Form bugid search web query results

# results - dont map to query() unless Base::query modified

search

Construct search form

with chosen params as defaults...

update

For all application objects, wraps to object_handler

$o_web->update(); # args ignored here for passing purposes

current_buttons

Get and set array of relevant buttons by context key

my @buttons = $o_web->current_buttons(search update reset, scalar(@uids), [$colspan]);

case

Handle case sensitivity from web search form.

format_query

Produce SQL query for bug search from cgi query.

Can be optimised somewhat ...

my $query = $web->format_query;

wildcard

Convert * into % for sqlquery

my $string = $self->wildcard(5.*);

tenify

Create range of links to split (by tens or more) bugids from web query result.

$self->tenify(@_bids, bug, 7); # in chunks of 7

Sitback is actual just another tar/gzip interface. It evolved from a bash-script I wrote to handle automated backups on Linux fileservers.
The script worked ok, but it soon proved difficult and tiresome to make local modifications to the script to handle various problems or differences.
I began searching the web to find a suitable backup tool, and came up with some candidates. But none of them did exactly what I wanted, or they were just too big and filled with features that I did not need.
One of the things I needed was a way of reporting the result of a backup to office peoples So a printed report, readable by non-nerds was required.
In the end, I desided that a homebrew system was required and began to put this little tool together..
Tar has been, and is, one of the best archiving utilities around, at least on small and medium scale systems (which are what I work on), so I saw no reason to abandon tar.
It is known to be stable and produce error-free archives, why should I then start all over and invent another file-storage protocol ?
Sitback works like a kind of super-intelligent script. Just tell it what you want to backup and where to put it.. Sitback takes care of the rest, including finding the tools needed, which compression to use (if you want that), how to handle the archive device, etc. etc.
Sitback will take care of checking the files, verify the archive and maintain a little database, so that you very quickly can find out on which tape a certain file is located, without using the tape.
Sitback can run a single backup operation, or you can ask it to fork into the background and do automated backups (this is where the printed report is nice to have; no report.. or report says ERROR ..then call for support).
Sitback has a graphic interface based on ncurses, when you run it directly from the shell. Do not worry if you do not have ncurses. Sitback works fine without.
If you run Sitback as a daemon making scheduled backups, no interface is available, but the logfile contains all important messages.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug with mail-sending.. Message body contained standalone linefeeds, violating the standard.
- Now using stat64 (if available) to allow for large files (larger than 2GB) in the backup.