Free miscellaneous information software for linux

Mobile Device Information project is a Java Swing application that provides desktop interface access to the WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource FiLe).
The WURFL contains information about the capabilities of a huge number of wireless devices.
The project has been created by me (Jim McLachlan), a software consultant specialising in Java projects for mobile devices (primarily J2METM clients with J2EETM back-ends).
Part of my consultancy work has been the "education" of clients to the limitations of the cross-platform nature of Java on mobile devices. I have regularly had to field questions like "Is the < mobile device > MIDP-1.0 or MIDP-2.0 compliant?" and "How many different MIDP-2.0 devices are there?".
As part of my recent web site development, where I intend to sell my J2ME applications, I found myself in need of some "rich content" that would be useful to consumers and not just developers. Hopefully, this tool will be useful to people wanting to know more about their devices.
Enhancements:
- This release finally resolves problems with the id pseudo-capability.
- Version 1.2 caused make/model data to be hidden; 1.2.1 fixed this, but added a bug which used the fallback instead of the current "id".

Web Information Saver saves and organizes texts, infos and quotations from the web.

Saving all kinds of text like news, quotations, informations with source and date for offline use.

The saved infos are sorted in categories and can be searched easily. Very handy for creating papers and researches but also for saving postings from online discussion boards etc, its also possible to save (and view) the information directly in HTML source code.

Why shouldnt i use the Browsers SAVE PAGE.. function?
I did it like this and lost soon the overview. Its always a complete site that is saved -even if you are just interested in one simple sentence! And these large files are scattered all over your harddisc and its uncomfortable to find them or to search within them.

Why shouldnt i use other tools?
Hey! You can use whatever you like. But they all depend on a special operating system or a special browser or they are just expensive. Through the renouncement on platform specific functions, the WEB INFORMATION SAVER is able to run on all major operating systems like Windows, Linux, Unix, MAC OS X etc.

Java + information flow (Jif in short) is a security-typed programming language that extends Java with support for information flow control and access control, both at compile time and at run time.

The source code for the Jif compiler and run-time system is now available for download. Jif is written in Java and is built using the Polyglot extensible Java compiler framework.

Static information flow control can protect the confidentiality and integrity of information manipulated by computing systems. The compiler tracks the correspondence between information the policies that restrict its use, enforcing security properties end-to-end within the system. After checking information flow within Jif programs, the Jif compiler translates them to Java programs and uses an ordinary Java compiler to produce secure executable programs.

Jif extends Java by adding labels that express restrictions on how information may be used. For example, the following variable declaration declares not only that the variable x is an int, but also that the information in x is governed by a security policy:

int {Alice→Bob} x;

In this case, the security policy says that the information in x is controlled by the principal Alice, and that Alice permits this information to be seen by the principal Bob. The policy {Alice←Bob} means that information is owned by Alice, and that Alice permits it to be affected by Bob. Based on label annotations like these, the Jif compiler analyzes information flows within programs, to determines whether they enforce the confidentiality and integrity of information.

Modularized Information Environment (MIE) is a Web-based information management tool designed to meet the needs of small or medium sized organizations.

Modularized Information Environment implements user authentication, storage of settings in a database, multi-lingual support and a presentation layer API that always generates well-formed XML.

SiG Information Generator provides a class for persistant objects in PHP.

SiG allows developers to create, store, retrieve, and search any custom PHP object. Using the Node base class one can create hierachies of related classes. It has been repackaged as a Wordpress Plugin.

SiG is written in PHP. PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic Web pages.[1] PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses.

The sole implementation is produced by The PHP Group and released under the PHP License. It is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation[2]. This implementation serves to define a de facto standard for PHP, as there is no formal specification.

User Account Information provides an ethernet users/customers traffic counter.
User Account Information is lightweight system for accounting for ethernet traffic on a per-user basis.
It includes a Web-based interface for allowing users to view their own network accounting information.
This product was designed and was tested in RedHat Linux 6.2 and in SlackWare Linux 7.0.
Main features:
- For each customer (who have IP adress in your local network area) are added two ipchains rule for counting input and output traffic.
- Each customer can look his own account information through WEB-interface.
- You ( as system administrator) can correct anything You want or anything you dont like in this program.
Enhancements:
- A date format error solely affecting output with DD/MM/YYYY action dates was corrected in the cgi-bin part.

Toms Unique Personal Information Manager is an hierarchical personal data manager.

Schemas and data are stored in XML. Toms Unique Personal Information Manager is designed for single users and small personal databases.

With this package, it is easy to modify the GeeXboX in a few seconds without having to build the sources.
The generator produces an ISO image of the GeeXboX, ready to be burned on disc.
GeeXboX ISO Generator currently works under both GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP operating systems.
Enhancements:
System:
- Updated linux to version 2.6.16.17.
- Updated BusyBox to 1.1.3.
- Updated uClibc to 2006.05.05 snapshot.
- Updated udev to version 0.92.
Toolchain:
- Introduced GCC 4.1.1 as the new compiler.
- Support for C++ in the toolchain.
- All packages are now built with big files support flag.
- Added support for non-free binary firmwares at sources build.
Player:
- Updated MPlayer to 1.0pre8.
- DVD Navigation Menus support.
- SHOUTcast and Netstream support (with content filtering on adult/subscription-only
- streams).
- Support for LIVE555 library (RTP/RTSP/SIP streaming) which provides FreeboxTV
- support for French people using the Free ISP.
- Use mp3-lib instead of FFMpeg to avoid audible glitches while seeking.
- Fix MPlayers bug which prevents AVI files with ODML index (99% of XviD files) to
- be read when idx=yes (default).
- Fix sound/subtitles issues while playing MPEG-TS streams.
- Support for multichannel AAC in MOV files.
- Playback of IFO files (DVD disc ripped on HDD for example) now works as expected.
- Set minimal cache size (5% of cache) to start playback of file very quickly.
- Fix TV channel OSD name generation with spaces in their name.
- Allows RTSP clients port forcing (for FreeboxTV users in router mode for example).
- Added support for DVD-RAM MPEG files.
Menu:
- Brand new menu item selection display (now with alpha layer).
- Added new menu that displays streams A/V properties.
- Allows metadata retrieval from MP3/OGG/FLAC audio files.
- Properties menu auto-opens and updates on audio-only media.
- Prevent user from browsing (and getting lost) in /
- Display NICs MAC address into information menu.
- Display CDROM size.
- Fixed display of disks partition size and freespace.
- Added release number information.
Audio:
- Update ALSA library and utilities to version v1.0.11.
- Added a lot of fixes for audio playback.
Video:
- Added support for different resolutions to be used through generator.
- Support for VESA with Intel i865, i910 and i915 chipsets.
Drivers:
- Added support for Serial ATA CDROM drives.
- Added support for ATAPI/IDE ZIP/LS120 drives.
- Added support for PcCard (32bits CardBus only, not 16bits PCMCIA).
- Added LCD displays support through LCD4Linux.
- Added support for most of the Gigabit NICs.
- Fix support of Nova DVB-S+ card.
- Updated LIRC to v0.8.0.
- Updated rt2400/rt2500 drivers to CVS 05.09.2006.
- Fix em8300 driver and firmware loading issues.
Networking:
- Updated djmount to version 0.53 (files are no more represented as playlist).
- Fixed bftpd FTP server write access error.
- Updated bftpd to version 1.4, and included fix for file transfers greater than 2GB.
- Update wireless tools to version 28.
Generator:
- Updated generator tools for MacOS X (support for MacIntel x86 OSX 10.4).
- Allow you to choose between multiple themes.
- Option for DVD Navigation menus to select it as a default or not.
- Option for autoplay to select it as a default or not.
- Option for SHOUTcast (radio and tv netstreams).
- Tab for video settings configuration (resolution, color depth and boot splash)
- Tab for support of LCD displays.
Miscellaneous:
- Fixed zoomed scrolling in FBI image viewer.
- Support for Microsoft Media Center Edition USB, StreamZap, Twinhan DTV, Toshiba
- VT76F and ATI Remote Wonder II remotes.
- Implemented full Digimatrix hardware support (apart from panel buttons).
- Allow multiple resolutions in themes.
- Support for VMware and QEMU (usefull for test purpose).