KungFu DVD Ripper is a GStreamer based DVD ripper.

KungFu creates backups of your DVDs, saving them as .oggs on your hard drive. It encodes the backup using patent-free codecs, Theora for video and Vorbis for audio.

KungFu is not designed for producing backups that fit within a certain file size (say, for burning onto CD); instead, it is designed to produce backups of consistent quality while maintaining the lowest average file size possible (for building a video library on your hard drive).

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.

M3U Ripper is a Firefox extension that allows you to rip the contents of an m3u, wmx, or ram playlist file link by right clicking on the link and selecting the "Rip Playlist Contents..." option from the popup menu. The option will only appear if the URL ends with the proper file extension.

All the URLs in the M3U file are downloaded via the Firefox download manager to the default download directory or the one specified in the M3U Ripper options. You can also optionally have M3U Ripper create a sub directory with the playlist file name, create the remote playlist file, create a local playlist file, and filter URLs within the playlist files via regular expressions.

RSS Ripper project is a set of Python scripts that rewrites RSS feeds as required for better ease of use. After the rip and rewrite, the new RSS feed is uploaded to your FTP server for your own private re-subscription.

Example Usage:

Rename digg_ripper.py-dist

mv digg_ripper.py-dist digg_ripper.py

Edit the FTP values at the top of the script to point to your own FTP.

FTP_HOST = example.com
FTP_USER = username
FTP_PASS = password
FTP_DIR = ~/path/to/public_html

Run it:

python digg_ripper.py

or

./digg_ripper.py

You may want to add a cron job:

0 * * * * /path/to/rss_ripper/digg_ripper.py >/dev/null 2>&1

And finally you can subscribe to your own custom rss feed.

Winki The Ripper aims to be the easiest program for video encoding. It is actually just a graphical frontend for GNOME written in python to command line tools like mencoder, oggenc, mkvtoolnix, mplayer and lsdvd.

Please be advised that the use of some of the tools you need for "Winki the Ripper" may not be legal in some countries. Please check this out yourself for the country you live in. We strongly advise not to use illegal tools, but it is not our job to make sure in which country which of the possibly needed tools may be forbidden or restricted.

Here are some key features of "Winki the Ripper":

Supported input formats

· DVD
· VCD/SVCD
· Multimedia file (does not work very well still)

Supported output formats

· VCD/SVCD (limited to 1 video, 1 audio and no subtitle streams)
· Multimedia matroska or ogm file (limited to 1 video, 3 audio and 3 subtitle streams)
· Multiple chunk output
· Predefined and custom size output chunks
· Easy crop detection
· Preview settings before rip
· Bulgarian, German, Polish and Spain translations

MMSRIP is a pure useless program which allows you to save on your hard-disk the content being streamed by an MMS server.

This program has been written for personnal use, so dont blame me if you think I am stupid doing such tool for the others.

MMS Ripper project should run on every POSIX compliant Operating System, but I cant give you any complete list.

MMSRIP is a client for the proprietary protocol MMS://.

It actually saves to a file the content being streamed. Please remember that this is not intended for real use, its existence is only and must only be documentary.

Whats New in This Release:

· This release introduces many improvements and bugfixes such as a workaround for recalcitrant MMS servers, a switch which enables debug output and the display of the ripping speed.
· You may also compile MMSRIP on Solaris, Cygwin, and Win32 now.

RipOff is a GTK+ based CD ripper for Linux (and hopefully for other Unix systems once some testing and fixing have been done) that has a simple interface, CDDB lookups, and a plugin-based encoder architecture.

RipOff CD Ripper attempts to appeal to those users who want a non-GNOME dependent CD ripper with a simple interface, or users who just dont like the interfaces of the other GTK+ CD rippers.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added HTTP_PROXY Functionality
· Fixed a bug where for newer versions of GTK "about" dialogue windows were not closing
· FLAC plugin now supports FLAC 1.1.3
· Added an icon for RipOff
· Miscellaneous code cleanups

Streamripper started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.

Streamripper was started sometime back in early 2000. Streamripper started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.

This is not surprising because portability was a constant consideration during development.Streamripper is now part of the FreeBSD standard distribution, mentioned in the Linux MP3 HOWTO, known to compile on many platforms such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2.

With the emergence of file sharing protocols such as Napster, Gnutella, and now Mojonation and Freenet, the average Internet user can download nearly any mp3 he wants in a matter of no time, but many times people dont know what they want. Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.

Whats New in This Release:

· Fix bug where external program wasnt being killed when reconnecting.

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS.

It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes.

Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.

Whats New in This Release:

· Bitslice DES code for x86-64 that makes use of the 64-bit mode extended SSE2 with 16 XMM registers has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes with x86-64 builds on AMD processors.
· A new make target for FreeBSD/x86-64 has been added.

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. DRBL Live Standard works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.

The purpose of DRBL live is to let you run a machine as DRBL server without installation. Its based on Debian Live. DRBL live includes all the DRBL functions, plus Clonezilla. Therefore it can provide PXEBoot Clonezilla, which can be used to do massively clone in a computer classrom or similar environment. Multicast clone is also supported.

Generally speaking, DRBL live is server edition, while Clonezilla live is personal edition. The differece between DRBL live and Clonezilla live is: DRBL live provides DRBL functions (DHCP, TFTP, NFS, NIS services), so client can boot via PXE and be cloned. Since DRBL live includes all the Clonezilla programs, it can be used as an alternative of Clonezilla live.

Distributed Network John The Ripper is a client/server framework that wraps around a slightly modified version of John The Ripper.

In contrast to the MPI version of John, dnetj allows the use of nodes which are of differing speeds and for nodes which do not run 24/7.

This tool was written for a number of reasons, firstly the MPI version requires an MPI installation on each node, and for the nodes to be configured together and be roughly the same speed. Also, although other distributed password crackers exist (such as djohn or medussa) they all have their own limitations.

The server loads a set of password hashes, and splits the available keyspace into "work units" of a configurable size. The clients connect and retrieve the hashes, as well as a set of work units to process. Once a client has processed some work units, it connects back to the server to submit the completed units as well as any passwords which have been cracked.

Possible uses include eg, running as a background task on all the workstations in an office.

Note, this tool is at an early stage of development and is likely to be very buggy, although it is functional. Bug reports and/or patches are strongly encouraged.

Here are some key features of "Distributed Network John The Ripper":

· Distributed client/server model, any number of clients can be supported and can be brought up and down at will
· Support for any cipher supported by John 1.7.2 (additional cipher patches should be able to be applied normally)
· Keep the changes to John to a minimum, so that patches/updates can still be applied without too much fuss
· Uses the same optimized encryption routines as John
· Cracked hashes are stored in the standard john.pot format, so they can be displayed with john -show
· Passwd files sent to clients are sanitised (only the hash is sent, other fields from the passwd file are removed)
· Capability for auto client registration
· Code is intentionally kept clean to aid porting

Supported Platforms

Dnetj has been tested on the following systems:

· Linux/x86
· Linux/amd64
· Linux/sparc
· MacOSX/PPC
· MacOSX/Intel
· Solaris/x86

Limitations:

· Clients will sometimes crash if unable to connect to the server for a long period of time.
· Work unit size is limited to a 32bit integer number of crypts (ie: 4294967296)
· Node performance calculations wrap once the node has performed more than 4294967296 crypts, so nodes may appear to be much slower than they truly are.
· Doesnt work with NTLM, as the NTLM hash is stored in a different field of the passwd file.
· Traffic is sent in plain text (this makes debugging easier at this early stage of development)
· Makefile is very basic, and has no configure script, compilation on Solaris requires adding -lnsl -lsocket to the compile command.

Whats New in This Release:

· Basic functionality is implemented, and dnetj is usable, but there are many things still to be implemented and a lot more testing is needed.

Tomahawk Desktop Standard is a free linux distribution.

Here are some key features of "Tomahawk Desktop Standard":

· KDE 3.5.1
· Firefox 1.5.0.1
· Thunderbird 1.5
· Mozilla 1.7.12
· OpenOffice 2.0.1
· KOffice 1.4.2
· amaroK 1.3.8
· VLC media player 0.8.4a
· GIMP 2.2.10
· Inkscape 0.43
· Scribus 1.3.2
· Blender 2.41
· Digikam 0.8.1
· K3b 0.12.10

Packages:
· Xorg 6.8.2
· Qt 3.3.4
· Cairo 1.0.2
· CUPS 1.1.23
· D-BUS 0.60
· HAL 0.5.5.1
· ALSA 1.0.8
· GStreamer 0.8.10
· DNS/Bind 9.3.1
· DHCP 3.0.2
· OpenSSL 0.9.7g
· Perl 5.8.6
· J2SDK 1.4.2_08
· Python 2.4.1
· Subversion 1.2.3
· CVS 1.11.20
· BitTorrent 4.4.0

Core:
· Linux Kernel 2.6.11.9
· Glibc 2.3.5
· GCC 3.4.3

Wireless Internet Access

· Supports Intel Centrino wireless networking out of the box and also supports other wireless technologies.

Bluetooth Access

· Bluetooth is built in. You can download photos from your phone and transfer MP3 files to your phone. Bluetooth access is used to trasfer any file to and from a Bluetooth enabled device.

Firewire

· Firewire access is built in. You can use Firewire-enabled devices with Tomahawk Desktop.

Zeroconf

· Zeroconf is a technology to access network resources without knowing their IP addresses.

Advance Multimedia

· High-Definition sound and video, MP3, Ogg, VCD, DVD, digital radios, Podcasts, etc. No mounting and unmounting hassle, just plug and play.

Video Editing

· Create your own movie or documentary with Tomahawk Desktop.

CD/DVD Burning

· CD/DVD burning is a snap with Tomahawk Desktop.

Audio/Video Streaming

· All software necessary to stream MP3, Ogg or VCD or DVD over a network are included in Tomahawk Desktop.

Remote Serviceability

· Under the permission of the user, service personnel can log in to a computer running Tomahawk Desktop remotely to configure or repair.

Extremely Effective Package Management System

· Package management used in Tomahawk Desktop is extremely simple and extremely effective. Its build upon already existing Unix tools and there is no database to corrupt!

John The Ripper MPI is an updated version of Ryan Lims patch for john the ripper to support MPI, in addition to a large number of third party patches to support additional ciphers and such.

MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a single system, or a cluster of systems for cracking passwords using john the ripper. Incredibly usefull in these days of multi core processors.

A compatible MPI implementation is required.

Benchmarks

Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo, 2.16GHz, MacBook Pro MacOSX
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi4, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Many salts: 3433087.00 c/s real, 3636739.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 2852658.00 c/s real, 3021898.00 c/s virtual

Dual AMD Opteron 250 (2.2ghz), Gentoo Linux 64bit
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16]... DONE
Many salts: 2132632.00 c/s real, 2139034.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 1951692.00 c/s real, 1957552.00 c/s virtual

Limitations:

· If you use Gentoo, make sure you compile mpich2 _WITHOUT_ the "threads" use flag, otherwise john-mpi will fail to compile with undefined references to MPIU_Free and MPIU_Malloc
· If you use OpenMPI instead of mpich2, the SIGHUP signal doesnt get passed to john. It is necessary to send a SIGUSR1 instead.

Whats New in This Release:

· Support for SIGUSR1 as well as SIGHUP, required for use with OpenMPI

Standard Portable Library is a pointer friendly C/C++ STL substitute. The API is similar to Java or .NET and includes common data structures, networking, and database support.

DSM (Dedicated Server Manager) Standard is a solution for hosting companies and organizations who need to combine a Web server, mail server, DNS server, or a fully featured Web hosting environment.

DSM Standard offers four levels of interface access: root user, reseller, site-owner, and mailuser.


Supported Operating Systems

· RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9
· Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3
· RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4
· CentOs 3, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, and 4

Requirements:

· Pentium® III or greater
· 256 MB RAM
· 128k (or faster) Internet connection
· Static IP Address
· 500MB+ unused hard drive space