Free loss of appetite software for linux

Its main purpose, besides being fun to play, is to demo the specific versions of the server, archetypes and maps used by crossfire+. All files can be freely downloaded via CVS on the the crossfire+ project page.
It is especially suited for beginners who do not want to experience a very sharp and frustrating learning curve and party players who want to play together more easily.
Main features:
- Death is not permanent.
- Death causes no stats depletion and little experience points loss.
- Friendly fire causes no damage.
- Pet monsters and summoned creatures will not stand in the way of other party members, making it bearable to play with summoning skills in a party.
- The item power setting is "2".
- The crossfire maps can be viewed interactively at cfmaps.schmorp.de.
- We import your character file from other crossfire servers, up to some level, so you can use your character you played with at home, for example. Send your character files to crossfire@schmorp.de. Please dont send artifically improved characters.
- Player-killing is, as usual, not tolerated.
- If you want to try out a map on a public server, feel free to send it in.
- Map and graphics artists are working on improved graphics and new maps and quests.
- Due to the filthy ;) code quality, the server restarts automatically after a crash (within one minute).
- Emergency saves are disabled.
- You can reach the admins via IRC: server irc.schmorp.de (alternatively irc.plan9.de), channel #schmorp, user(s) schmorp or elmex.
- You can reach the admins via E-Mail: crossfire@schmorp.de.
- We are sometimes running the release, sometimes a CVS (not latest CVS) snapshot with some patches applied. If you encounter problems fixed in a newer snapshot feel free to report it.
- Player files and other variable data is backed up nightly to two different locations.
How to Connect
To connect to the server using e.g. cfclient or gcfclient, use this command:
cfclient -server crossfire.schmorp.de
or maybe...
cfclient -server crossfire.schmorp.de -mapsize 19x19 -font 9x15bold -cache
or you could use gcfclient or any other crossfire client.
If you use Debian GNU/Linux, you can find the clients in the crossfire-server-x11 and crossfire-server-gtk packages.
Enhancements:
- Large parts of the server have been rewritten.
- Map loading and saving and most I/O is done asynchronously, eliminating I/O-based lag.
- The server now regularly writes maps and players, so data loss on crash is minimized.
- Over 40 Perl extensions are available, such as a IRC gateway, transports, playershop, and minesweeper.
- The map system is now completely pluggable (for example, the world map is generated on the fly from an overlay).
- The file formats have been cleaned up and improved and use a faster parser now.
- A persistent database is available for data storage.

FDMS-3 Ripper is a Perl program for extracting the tracks from the FDMS-3 filesystem. I recently bought a Fostex FD-8 multitrack hard disk recorder for recording music. It works great, but I was disappointed to discover that, although it uses a standard external SCSI hard disk, there was no way to "rip" the recorded tracks from the hard drive to my PC over the SCSI port. The alternatives were to use the analog-out to re-record each track using my soundcard (resulting in loss of quality and loss of synch between tracks), or buying a $500 ADAT card for my PC.

I decided that I would try to figure out a way to rip the music directly over the SCSI port. The FD-8 uses a proprietary Fostex filesystem, FDMS-3. I decided to hook it up to my PC and probed the drive. I was able to figure out the basic layout of the filesystem pretty quickly. Note: this is designed to hard disks formatted in the FDMS-3 "Mastering" mode, which stores the audio data in uncompressed format.

In order to use the program, you will need to take the hard disk that has the FDMS-3 filesystem on it and hook it up to your PC (mine is a SCSI drive -- dont know if this will work with one of the internal IDE drives you can hook up to the FD-8). Make sure that Linux can see the drive (dont try to mount it, though!). You might want to have a look at SCSI-2.4-HOWTO to get the drive recognized. My external hard disk is located at "/dev/sda", but yours could end up elsewhere.

Next, you need to make sure you have the following on your system: perl, sox and fileutils (for the "dd" utility). Security Warning Unfortunately, this program presents significant security issues, so be careful with it. The script needs to be able to access the hard disk directly, so you can either run it as root (not safe), or change the permissons for the hard disk device (in my case, "/dev/sda"). Run the program with "./fdms3rip /dev/sda" (substituting the actual location of your hard disk).

This will list all of the programs present on the hard disk. Then, run it again with the number of the program you want to fetch off the hard disk: "./fdms3rip /dev/sda 5" to get all of the recorded tracks for program number 5. After waiting a bit, you should now have a bunch of WAV files on your Linux machine. Warning This program will create and erase files with the names "dir" and "header" in the directory it is run from. It would be best to run this program from a clean directory, just to make sure there are no problems.

Weight Loss Recipe Book is a free, online, community-built recipe book. Weight Loss Recipe Book contains everything you need to allow your web site visitors to submit recipes and everything your administrator needs to administer the recipes.
When a visitor submits a recipe, the recipe is added to a database and awaits approval from the administrator before being added to the public site.
Main features:
- Community built, meaning you just have to approve entries and watch your web site expand!
- Captcha validation to prevent automated entries into the recipe book.
- Complete administrator system - add administrators, recipe categories, manage recipes and more!
- Best of all, Weight Loss Recipe Book is totally free!

With Sonys recent introduction of the PS3, you can now run Linux on it as well as use it as a gaming console. The PlayStation3 is based on a Cell processor and therefore can run most of the ppc64 64ul or 32ul binaries without change. As of now, the kernel does differ.

This project page is commited to Linux running on the PS3. Here you will find all kinds of information related to Gentoo for the PS3, Cell processors, toolchains, and the Gentoo LiveCD for PS3 and PowerMacs.

The latest Livecd is very close to working. Join us on IRC for the latest. To wet your appetite, check out nickthecooks screenshot of the livecd working. Notice the full gnome desktop. You can also see a hi-res screen shot of the gnome-desktop here.
With the right equipment and a little hack (soon), the PS3 should boot into high resolution and include among other things:

- Full gnome desktop 2.16.x
- Sound support with audacious and rythmbox
- Firefox 2 and thunderbird, evolution, epihany, seamonkey

mpgedit is an MPEG 1 layer 1/2/3 (mp3), MPEG 2, and MPEG 2.5 audio file editor that is capable of processing both Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoded files.
Since no file decoding / encoding occurs during editing, there is no audio quality loss when editing with mpgedit.
When editing VBR files that have a XING header, mpgedit updates the output files XING header information to reflect the new file size and average bit rate.
mpgedit operates in two modes: a command line and a curses-based, full-screen interactive shell. All editing functionality is available in both modes. The chief advantage of the interactive mode comes when using the playback feature for selection and verification of edit begin and end times, which is more rapidly performed interactively.
xmpgedit provides most of the same editing capabilities as the curses-mode mpgedit, but adds a graphical representation of the volume levels of mp3 file being being edited.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes an occasional crash in xmpgedit when adjusting the volume after playback has stopped.
- mpgedit playto start time is fixed, which would play beyond the specified edit time in some circumstances.
- The command "Copy start time" has been added to the xmpgedit edit menu.
- mpgedit playback and editing with the -I option is fixed, which would frequently repeat up to a second of material at the start of the edit.

xmpgedit project is an MP3 editor for VBR and CBR encoded files.
xmpgedit is an MPEG 1 layer 1/2/3 (MP3), MPEG 2, and MPEG 2.5 audio file editor that is capable of processing both Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoded files.
xmpgedit can cut an input MPEG file into one or more output files, as well as join one or more input MPEG files into a single output file. Since no decoding or encoding occurs during editing, there is no audio quality loss when editing with xmpgedit.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes an occasional crash in xmpgedit when adjusting the volume after playback has stopped.
- xmpgedit playto start time is fixed, which would play beyond the specified edit time in some circumstances.
- Added the command "Copy start time" to the xmpgedit edit menu.

Hammer of Thyrion is a port of Ravens Hexen2 source code and is based on the original Linux Hexen II project, Anvil of Thyrion.

HoT includes many bugfixes, improved sound and video modes, opengl improvements and documentation among many others.

Whats New in This Release:

General:
--------
- The engine version is now at 1.19 for Hexen II and 0.19 for HexenWorld.
- Added support for 64 bit architectures: The crashes on amd64 are fixed.
- Added support for protocol 18: Hammer of Thyrion is now fully network-
compatible with Ravens 1.11 windows version, as it has been with other
Hexen II ports.
- The net compatibility works both ways: When H.o.T is run as a client,
it can connect to Raven-1.11 servers and can play just fine. On the
other hand, if a 1.11 client wants to connect to a H.o.T. server, the
server must be started with "-protocol 18" command line argument.
- You can also load and play games saved with the 1.11 windows version and
can playback the demos recorded with the 1.11 version.
- Fixed and improved parsing of puzzles.txt: This fixes the bug where the
names used to be listed as Unknown in the puzzle pieces inventory display
(you can access the puzzle pieces inventory display using a key bound to
the +showdm command, the default is q).
- Updated the loading of strings.txt, infolist.txt and puzzles.txt.
- Updates to SDL input code. Added the Shift-Escape key combination as a
new means for opening the in-game console.
- Fixed many printf format string errors.
- Revised pak data checking.
- Added experimental support for using unpatched, off-the-cdrom 1.03 version
pak files as a compile time option. Disabled by default.
- Several cvar tweaks.
- Made the load and connect commands to get rid of the menu or the console.
- Fixed multiplayer episode selection in the menu system.
- Updates to zone memory usage: a 256 KB secondary zone for static textures
(sec_zone) is now initialized, which is especially useful for the software
renderer and have its merits for the opengl version, too.
- Revised several unsafe LoadStackFile and LoadBufFile usage.
- Removed the useless net_vcr facility.
- Tweaked the init sequence.
- Changed the remnants of malloc usage into hunk or zone allocations.
- Mac OS X: Ensured that the basedir always stays the same (fix was added
in 1.4.1-rev1).

Gameplay:
---------
- The gamecode is now at version 1.19.
- Origin fixes for tomed fires of vorpal sword and purifier: paladin used
to fire them always from the non-crouched eye position, and it was even
the worst when he was looking up (and down). You wont be shooting your
back again when standing just in front of a wall and fire your tomed
purifier to the sky, from now on ;)
- Fixed an obscure bug where the assasin with her 4th weapon uses the tome
of power and cant fire it (gamecode version 1.16a, the fix was added in
1.4.1-rev1).

Console:
--------
- Added prefix matching support to the maplist command.
- A duplicate name detection bug in the maplist command was fixed.
- Updated and sanitized the command lister procedures.
- Added a -developer command line argument which sets the developer cvar to
1 during the init phase (ie. before the config is read).
- Consolidated all Con_Printf and Sys_Printf family of procedures into a
single flag based procedure. Added macros for compatibility with the old
api.
- Revised the logging system, made all Con_Printf and Sys_Printf output to
be written into the logs from the start. Added a -devlog command line
switch to enable logging of developer message even when the developer cvar
isnt set.

Server:
-------
- Fixed the mission packs doWhiteFlash server message: it used to affect the
local client only. Naturally, the recorded demos didnt carry the message
and the flash didnt appear, either. It works properly now.
- Made the Hexen II dedicated server to exec not hexen.rc or config.cfg, but
server.cfg if available. As an alternative, any config file can be execed
when starting the server, such as: "h2ded +exec myconfig.cfg"
- Hexen II dedicated server now starts the demo1 map, if the server is still
not active when initialization is complete.
- Fixed net driver checks in Hexen II dedicated server: It was broken in the
1.4.1 release and works properly now.

Video:
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- Added apply changes and reset changes items to the video options menu.

Software Renderer:
------------------
- Added ability to load external wal texture files instead of internal pixel
data of the brush model (depends on the new r_texture_external cvar).

OpenGL Renderer:
----------------
- Some speed-ups in the alias model drawing.
- Fixed RGBA lighting.
- Fixed bug that the array size for playertextures must be MAX_CLIENTS, but
was hardcoded as 16.
- Added ability to load external wal texture files instead of internal pixel
data of the brush model (depends on the new r_texture_external cvar).

Sound:
------
- Added external music file support via SDL_mixer as an extra patch.

CDAudio:
--------
- Updated the volume setting procedures.

HexenWorld:
-----------
- OpenGL: Fixed bug that netgraphtexture was not reset during reinitializa-
tion of the draw subsystem (used to affect the packet loss status graph by
r_netgraph).
- OpenGL: Fixed bug that dynamic lights had a problem with RGBA lightmaps
(such as torches didnt illuminate) but luminance mode was fine. Lightmaps
in RGBA mode are working now.
- OpenGL: Added colored dynamic lights and extra dynamic lights (stuff copied
over from hexen2). The gl_colored_dynamic_lights and gl_extra_dynamic_lights
cvars and their menu entries are functional now.

Launcher:
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- Added integrated ability to patch the pak files.
- The launcher now scans the installation directory against known game versions
for pak file health, and pops up the patch window with a short report if it
finds something bad. It now disables the mission pack or hexenworld options
according to the results it took from the installation scanning.
- Many clean-ups. Incremented the version number to 1.0.0.

Utilities:
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- Added the bsp2wal tool which extracts all texture data into hwal files.
- Added the lmp2pcx tool which converts hexen2 texture data into pcx and tga.
- Fixed the broken project path decision in qbsp. it doesnt scan for a maps
directory anymore.
- Added a findfirst/findnext implementation to the common library.
- Several fixes in dcc.

Other:
----------------------
- Imported the latest xdelta-1.1 sources into the tree.
- Started a large scale attempt at improving const-correctness.
- Updated inline commentaries.
- A lot of code clean-up all over the tree.

Sqliteman is the best developers and/or admins GUI tool for Sqlite3 in the world. No joking here (or just a bit only) - it contains the most complette feature set of all tools available. And its just the beginning...

Sqliteman is a Qt4 based GPLv2 application near the first stable release. The project has almost all planned features implemented. When it fills its feature list there will be a "stabilization" phase to catch all possible bugs.

But you can use Sqliteman as is. I do it regulary with no data loss.