Free postal software for linux

HTML TIDY is a free utility to fix mistakes made while editing HTML and to automatically tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
When editing HTML its easy to make mistakes. Wouldnt it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggetts HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy wont generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it cant be sure of how to handle. These are logged as "errors" rather than "warnings".
Dave Raggett has now passed the baton for maintaining Tidy to a group of volunteers working together as part of the open source community at Source Forge. The source code continues to be available under an open source license, and you are encouraged to pass on bug reports and enhancement requests at http://tidy.sourceforge.net.
If you find HTML Tidy useful and you would like to say thanks, then please send me a (paper) postcard or other souvenir from the area in which you live along with a few words on what you are using Tidy for. It will be fun to map out where Tidy users are to be found! My postal address is given at the end of this file.
The W3C public email list devoted to HTML Tidy is: . To subscribe send an email to html-tidy-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line (include the word unsubscribe if you want to unsubscribe). The archive for this list is accessible online. If you would like to contact the developers, or you just want to submit an enhancement request or a bug report, please visit http://tidy.sourceforge.net.
Tidy can now perform wonders on HTML saved from Microsoft Word 2000! Word bulks out HTML files with stuff for round-tripping presentation between HTML and Word. If you are more concerned about using HTML on the Web, check out Tidys "Word-2000" config option! Of course Tidy does a good job on Word97 files as well!
Main features:
- Missing or mismatched end tags are detected and corrected
- End tags in the wrong order are corrected
- Fixes problems with heading emphasis
- Recovers from mixed up tags
- Getting the

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in the right place
- Adding the missing "/" in end tags for anchors
- Perfecting lists by putting in tags missed out
- Missing quotes around attribute values are added
- Unknown/Proprietary attributes are reported
- Proprietary elements are recognized and reported as such
- Tags lacking a terminating > are spotted

RoadMap is an open source (GPL) program that provides a car navigation for Linux and UNIX. It displays a map of the streets, tracks the position provided by a NMEA-compliant GPS receiver, identifies the street matching this GPS position and announces the name of the crossing street at the next intersection. A rudimentary trip feature allows RoadMap to display some basic navigation information (distance to the destination, direction, speed, etc..). Voice messages are generated that duplicate some of the screen information.
It is possible to display a specific area by providing a (complete or incomplete) postal address, the intersection of two streets or an exact position (longitude / latitude).
The map files used by RoadMap are generated from the TIGER files provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus cover the USA only. The RoadMap map format is a binary format that is sensitive to the endianness of the processor. Maps available on this site cover all the USA and have been generated for a little endian processor (such as the Intel Pentium and StrongARM processors).
RoadMap has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop PC, or on a PDA such as the iPAQ from HP (formely from COMPAQ). It can use either the Gtk 1.2 , Gtk 2.0 or QT graphic library for its user interface. The Qt interface supports the Sharps Zaurus PDA. All these machines share the same endianness and can use the maps provided on this site.
RoadMap is at an early stage of development. At this time there are no routing features implemented yet. The plan for the future is to implement some navigation features similar to those found in commercial street navigation systems. The main limit for implementing routing is the lack of navigation information in the US Census Bureau database (for example one-way street are not indicated). The US Census Bureau has clearly indicated that it does not plan to add these information in the future (the USCB does not need them).
RoadMap uses gpsd for the GPS link and flite (festival lite) for the voice messages. Note that flite can be rebuilt with better voices than the default one (such as a US voice instead of a british one--some may disagree :). See the flite README for more information. Here is an example, courtesy of Scot Wilcoxon:
cd flite make clean # to remove old executable files ./configure --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16
RoadMap comes with its own GPS status screen, which provides an overview of the satellites received and highlights those the GPS has a fix on. This status screen allows for placing the GPS device in a position that optimizes satellite reception, even if that means making the GPS devices screen not accessible.
RoadMap uses a binary file format for representing the maps that is compact enough to allow the storage of many maps on a Compact Flash or MultiMedia card. For example, the map of Los Angeles county takes about 10 Mbytes of flash space. RoadMap comes with a set of tools to convert the US Census bureau data (both the 2000 and 2002 versions) into its own map format. Future versions of the US Census bureau data will be supported as well (usually a 1 or 2 months after the data has been released).
When RoadMap starts, it displays a map of the same area that was displayed on the latest session. Clicking on the map screen triggers a "sign" that displays the name of the street, road or freeway (if any) that is the closest to the mouse hotpoint.
Enhancements:
- This version includes some GUI improvements (the user can redefine the toolbar & menu) and bug fixes.
- Improved maps are now available on the web site, which were built from the TIGER 2004se files.

PIRP provides an implementation of the experimental PIRP protocol.

The PIRP Protocol Implementation makes it possible for people to summarize into a single address (similar in form to an email address) personal data such as electronic addresses or telephone numbers.

This would be useful for handheld devices such as mobile telephones.

This is the home page of PIRP, a proposal for an internet protocol aimed at creating an universal electronic address. The idea is to extend the format of e-mail address into what we call star-address which will appear something like yourname*acme.com.

Then, having this address, any device accessing the internet can connect to a PIRP server (in this case located at acme.com) and ask him for other channel-dependent addresses like e-mail and postal address or telephone numbers.

In this way people will be finally relieved of knowing lots of different information about themselves and their friends only to be able to communicate with them.

The time of cumbersome telephone numbers is over. Long life to the star-address!

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has on its web site an HTML form at http://www.usps.com/zip4/ for standardizing an address. Given a firm, urbanization, street address, city, state, and zip, it will put the address into standard form (provided the address is in their database) and display a page with the resulting address.
Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup Perl Module provides a programmatic interface to this service, so you can write a program to process your entire personal address book without having to manually type them all in to the form.
Because the USPS could change or remove this functionality at any time, be prepared for the possibility that this code may fail to function. In fact, as of this version, there is no error checking in place, so if they do change things, this code will most likely fail in a noisy way. If you discover that the service has changed, please email the author your findings.
If an error occurs in trying to standardize the address, then no array will be returned. Otherwise, a four-element array will be returned.
To see debugging output, call $zlu->verbose(1).
SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address;
use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup;
my $addr = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address->new(
Focus Research, Inc., # Firm
, # Urbanization
8080 Beckett Center Drive Suite 203, # Delivery Address
West Chester, # City
OH, # State
45069-5001 # ZIP Code
);
my $zlu = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup->new();
my @matches = $zlu->std_addr($addr);
if (@matches) {
printf "n%d matches:n", scalar(@matches);
foreach my $match (@matches) {
print "-" x 39, "n";
print $match->to_string;
print "n";
}
print "-" x 39, "n";
}
else {
print "No matches!n";
}
exit 0;
Enhancements:
- Adapt to yet another round of changes to the USPS Zip Lookup web site, courtesy of Eric Parker.
- Copyright date updates.

fdmf is portable perl/C software for finding pairs of music files in a collection that are likely to contain the same music. It works on the music itself, not on the filename, tags, or headers. The project uses an audio fingerprint, or perceptual hash to recognize the duplicate files. It is currently under heavy development, so it might be buggy, broken, or otherwise bad. But it works for me. Please email me and tell me if it works for you. Bug reports are appreciated.

It would help the development of this software if I had a larger set of files to test it on. If you feel like lending music files to this effort, it would be greatly appreciated. The optimal form would be a CD or DVD of MP3 or OGG files which could be sent via postal mail. The media will be mailed back to you after it has been used, along with some extra disks of music for your testing purposes. Please email me if you are interested in lending files.

USAGE:

fdmf < music_dir >
vector_pairs

USAGE EXAMPLE:

./fdmf /home/bob/music/
./vector_pairs

vector_pairs will print on stdout a list of pairs of files that may contain the same music.

NOTE: The first time you run this program it will do a lot of processing. It takes 10 minutes to process a music_dir containing 140 mp3 files on my Apple G4. It will attempt to cache the result so that subsequent runs are faster. You can interrupt it and your progress will not be lost.

ANOTHER NOTE: On my current development box, an IBM T20, mplayer is the fastest mp3 decoder. mpg123 is also quite fast, much faster than mpg321. Some Linux distros come with mpg123 being a symbolic link to mpg321 since mpg123 is not under GPL. Bottom line: you can use any program for decoding if it can take the name of a music file as a command line arg and write the raw decoded 44100/stereo/16-bit stream on stdout. You might want to take some measurements on your system to see which decoder is fastest.