Free mastering software for linux

Q3Master project is a Quake3Arena master server.
Q3Master is a standalone master server for Quake3Arena (and derived games, like RTCW).
It is intended for local networks without Internet connections (or firewalls which block Q3A). It can also be used for larger private networks on which more than one Q3A server exists.
Q3Master can also be used to query servers in a local subnet, using broadcasts.
The found servers can then be sent to another (or a central) master server to collect data from multiple subnets.
Enhancements:
- enhanced documenation
- all supported games and versions
- installation and usage
- performance
- protocols
- wrote a load test suite
- performance enhancements
- added UDP proxy used for testing

Gcdmaster is a front-end to cdrdao the CD mastering software.
Gcdmaster is the GNOME2 GUI front-end to cdrdao that makes it easy to visualize and manipulate audio information before burning it onto CD.
Its features include: cut/copy/paste of sound samples, track marks edition and silence insertion. Writes audio CD-Rs in disc-at-once (DAO) mode allowing control over pre-gaps (length down to 0, nonzero audio data) and sub-channel information like ISRC codes and CDTEXT. GCDMaster also supports on-the-fly CD copying.
Main features:
- Easy to use graphical interface
- Multiple project support
- Playing of Audio CD images
- Easy dump of CDs to disk
- CD to CD copy
- Composition of new Audio CDs from wav files
- Graphical insertion of Track Marks (to divide live recordings)
- Easy CD-TEXT modification

ResearchMaster project has been designed to make working a little easier. Specifically, the application can be either a storage facility for all of your precious, miscellaneous digital information, or for just some of it. The project began as a way for the author to [1] have a centralized library for all the papers and various snippets he collects, and [2] to have some powerful, built-in support for BibTeX, the LaTeX bibliography system ( The LaTeX bibliography system, as described in the Leslie Lamport book. ISBN 0-201-52983-1).
When the application starts up, it creates a virtual filesystem (vfs) from information contained in records. Each record appends itself under at least one folder in the vfs, and the vfs is represented by a tree-widget system of folders and records. The application is divided into folder controls (left) and record controls (right).
Each record is actually a set of three python dictionaries, stored in a flat ascii text file. The three dictionaries correspond to [1] BibTex information corresponding to the record, [2] Meta information (eg. isbn, call number, url, membership) and [3] an endless notes file. When a record is selected from the tree widget, the corresponding three dictionaries are presented in a three-tabbed notebook widget on the right side of the application.
New records are created via a button on the records toolbar. When you create a new record the application pops a filechooser and you are given the opportunity to import a single file. Perhaps the imported file is a pdf copy of a research paper that you dont want to lose. ResearchMaster is a good place to store it. First, the record and the imported file now have each other. Now you can keep a log of your involvement with the file in the notes portion of the record. The Meta portion of the record contains non-BibTex information, such as which folders the record is a member of. The application accesses the records BibTex information whenever the record has membership within the subtree of a particular folder for which a recursive bibliography is being generated.
Heres a typical example: Say you create a folder for some project. Lets say that after six months your folder now has several subtrees of folders and records, all arranged according to the scheme that happened. Now imagine there are twenty records with BibTex information strewn throughout the projects subtree, side-by-side with other records that dont have BibTex information (notes, whatever). By pushing the Create Bibliography button on the left toolbar the application will produce a perfectly formatted BibTex file with all twenty records.
Each record can be made a member of any folder simply by adding the folders path to the membership list in the Meta portion of the record. The tree widget is dynamically constructed by recursively examining a directory tree (corresponding to the folders of the tree-widget) and the membership list contained in each record. This is done so that we only have one physical copy of each record, despite the fact that the record might show up in fifty different places throughout the tree widget.
The file that gets imported with a record can be any file of any format. You can tell ResearchMaster to launch the file as an argument to any external application, based on the filenames suffix (.gif, .avi, .mpg, .mp3). Then, select the record from the tree, push the launch button (on the records toolbar), and voila! The associated application brings up your file. Thats one feature that makes working a little easier.
Enhancements:
- Small correction was needed on line 1140 of ResearchMaster_wxuser.py, where "researchmaster" needed to be "ReseaerchMaster" for preferences initialization.

Games::Mastermind::Solver is a Master Mind puzzle solver.

SYNOPSIS

# a trivial Mastermind solver

use Games::Mastermind;
use Games::Mastermind::Solver::BruteForce;

my $player = Games::Mastermind::Solver::BruteForce
->new( Games::Mastermind->new );
my $try;

print join( , @{$player->game->code} ), "nn";

until( $player->won || ++$try > 10 ) {
my( $win, $guess, $result ) = $player->move;

print join( , @$guess ),
,
B x $result->[0], W x $result->[1],
"n";
}

Games::Mastermind::Solver is a base class for Master Mind solvers.

Master Combat Control Program is an improved clone of the "Shadowrun-Assistent" program (as found on shadowrun.de).
Its main goals are better usability, minor feature improvements, and i18n. It constists of a character editor, an initiative manager, and a dice roller.
Enhancements:
- Due to popular demand, the directory where the configuration files are put is now configurable via the "-config" option.
- When first running the program it complained about missing files, which are created on shutdown, so this was changed.
- added parsing of command line parameter "-config";
- all error messages internationalized;
- added "readme.txt"

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.

FreeOrion is an open-source game inspired by Master of Orion, is a turn-based game of epic space strategy that builds on the classic 4X model by incorporating the nation-building elements of games such as Europa Universalis 2 and a versatile tactical combat engine.

While its modular, open-source design allows for a significant degree of customization of the game engine and the story elements by the community, the FreeOrion team is dedicated to the construction of a living, breathing universe in a grand campaign model.