Free pain demo software for linux

ProScrabble is a scrabble playing program and a very powerful dictionary search. You can load/save/print games and add new dictionaries. It plays on 6 different levels and even the levels are editables.
Main features:
- Play against your friend, computer(s) or see a demo game between computers.
- Very powerful and fast dictionary search
- You can supply new dictionaries or edit them
- Save and load current game
- Replay the last game
- Hint from the computer
- And more

AFT is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form meaning that there is little intrusive markup. AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text.
AFT has a few rules for structuring your document and these rules have more to do with formatting your text rather than embedding commands.
Right now, AFT produces pretty good HTML, LaTeX, lout and RTF. It can, in fact, be coerced into producing all types of output (e.g. roll-your-own XML). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own HTML rule files for specialized output.
Installation
- Run ./configure and then make install.
Enhancements:
aft-html.dat and aft-tex.dat
- Removed the historical hack: using to produce a line break. This was never documented, so it shouldnt cause too much pain to have it removed. If it does cause pain, let me know. You could always use a pragma to (re)implement this feature/hack.
- In the meantime... A new rule element: LineBreak has been introduced so that internal reliance on goes away. LineBreak has not been exposed to the end user (yet).
AFT.pm
- Fixed a small bug concerning line continuations in verbatim mode: Line continuations are no longer parsed when in verbatim mode. What you type is what you should get.

JCalendar is a Swing component for selecting a date. JCalendar is easy to configure, highly customizable, and has an attractive user interface. The distribution includes a demo application so that you can preview your customized component.
Main features:
- Easy to configure
- Highly customizable. See properties.
- Attractive user interface

Packer is a tool that helps in the creation of packages.
Packages are a great convenience for gurus and new users alike. Thus, users may be less inclined to use software that is not packaged.
This is unfortunate for GNU/Linux software developers since packaging software is a huge pain, especially given the huge variety of packaging formats.
Packer helps to automate this process. Using a text-based wizard, packer can collect all the information regarding a program needed to create a package.
Then, a simple command is all it takes to create a debian directory (used to build debian packages), RPM SPEC files (for Mandriva, SuSE, and Fedora/Red Hat), and autopackages spec files (autopackage is a system for creating distribution-neutral installers with dependency handling).
These files are of a similar quality to hand-crafted ones. Packer can also automatically build the packages themselves if requested.
Usage:
Running packer with no options will start the packer wizard. It will populate the packer directory based on your answers to the its questions.
It is always possible to relaunch the wizard to make modifications to the package if there were problems with the information originally entered or if a new version of the program being packaged is released.
Running packer with options will create binary and source packages from the information in the packer directory. You may call packer -h to find out the availible options.
Enhancements:
- Removed dependency on dynamic content on packages.debian.org (ie it works again)

Apt-get Install / Remove Packet is a tool to install/remove packets with debian apt-get.

About Apt-Get:

Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a package management system used by Debian and its derivatives. APT was originally designed to work with .deb packages on Debian systems, but it has since been modified to work with RPM packages via apt-rpm, and to run on other operating systems such as Mac OS X (see fink). On systems with package management based on .deb, such as Debian, APT is a front-end for dpkg.

APT simplifies the process of installing and removing software on Unix systems, by automating the retrieval, (from the Internet, local network, or CD) the configuration, the compiling (sometimes) and the installation of software from APT sources.

There is no apt program per se; APT is a C++ library of functions that are used by several command line programs for dealing with packages, most notably apt-get and apt-cache.

APT front-ends can upgrade the system or specific packages. Packages can be installed or removed. When installing one or several packages, APT front-ends can list the dependencies of these packages, ask the administrator if packages recommended or suggested by newly installed packages should be installed too, automatically install dependencies and perform other operations on the systems packages to allow the installation of the packages. Similarly, to update one or several packages, front-ends can install, remove or update other packages.

APT is often hailed as one of Debians best features, giving Debian the reputation of being a "pain to install, but a joy to maintain", although with Debian 3.1 and its Debian-Installer, Debians installation might be too easy nowadays to keep this true.

SVGSlice application can generate chopped up images from Inkscape SVG drawings.

To figure out where to cut, SVGSlice can use Inkscapes built in guides (for simpler, grid-like cuts), or it can use a specially named "slices" layer that contains rectangles that mark areas to slice.

Demo files showing both approaches are included.

m3u2toc is a Perl script which creates a CD-Text enabled cdrdao TOC file from a XMMS MP3 playlist.

Theres lots of scripts out there to help you burn MP3s as CD audio, but none Ive seen that make a point of writing matching CD-Text data. This script takes the pain out of manually preparing a TOC file with CD-Text author and title data by extracting that info from MP3 ID3 tags.

This script also differs from others by not being an end to end solution for MP3 to CD audio burning. It will take a M3U playlist and produce a TOC file and thats it. Decoding MP3s and running cdrdao to burn them is your job. (Although Ill implement decoding if theres demand for it).

I like small programs that tackle individual problems and solve them well, rather than monolithic ones that try to do everything and fail badly.

Four simple steps to burn:
- complile and save a playlist in XMMS (ensuring ID3 tags are filled).
- set output plugin in XMMS to "disk writer" and decode MP3s.
- run m3u2toc on playlist file to make a TOC file complete with author and title CD-Text data.
- then just run cdrdao using the TOC file and let the CD burn.