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Podcast::Publisher is a Perl module for creating and managing podcasts.

SYNOPSIS

use Podcast::Publisher;

my $podcast = Podcast::Publisher->new;
$podcast->set_logger( sub { my $msg = shift; print $msg; } );
$podcast->set_error_logger( sub { my $msg = shift; print STDERR $msg; } );
my $xml = "./podcast.xml";
$podcast->set_file( $xml );
$podcast->set_remote_root( "http://localhost.localdomain/podcast/publishing/" );
$podcast->set_db_connection( { driver => "mysql",
username => foo,
password => bar,
host => localhost,
database => podcast } );

# If we change podcast information, synchronize this information in the MP3 file itself
$podcast->set_synchronize( 1 );

$podcast->set_metadata( { title => "Chris Podcast",
description => "All About Chris",
"docs" => "http://localhost",
"editor" => "podcastmanager@localhost",
"webmaster" => "podcastmanager@localhost",
} );

# This adds an item to the database, and synchronizes the
# MP3 Tag information in the file with the database
$podcast->add_new_episode( { title => Some title,
author => Chris of course
category => Jazz
description => First in a series of many
mp3 => /home/foobar/mp3s/episode1.mp3 } );

$podcast->set_upload_settings( { host => localhost.localdomain,
username => someuser,
password => somepass,
path => podcast/publishing/,
remote_root => http://localhost.localdomain/podcast/publishing/ } );
$podcast->upload();

blogBuddies provides an RSS and Atom aggregator that emulates the LiveJournal Friends page.
blogBuddies gathers RSS and Atom feeds into a layout similar to the LiveJournal Friends page. It is optimized for blogs, and works with Blogger, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, GreatestJournal, Xanga, RSS, and Atom feeds.
About blogBuddies
I originally started writing blogBuddies in my spare time as a response to the lack of a LiveJournal-type friends system in Blogger. Over the course of a few months, blogBuddies grew from a paltry, one-user system to a full multi-user, themable system supporting both LiveJournal and Blogger.
Going from there, blogBuddies was expanded to offer service for GreatestJournal, DeadJournal, Xanga, and RSS/Atom feeds. In the next release (0.4), blogBuddies will support MySpace blogs. I still write blogBuddies in my spare time, and do not know what I want to do with it at this point. If anyone wishes to help, they are free to PM me.
Enhancements:
- Added RSS and Atom support (URLs)
- Code cleanup
- Changed the UserAgent so that publishers can see blogBuddies
- Added support for GreatestJournal, DeadJournal, and Xanga
- Cross-site scripting: A PATCH IS NOW AVAILALBE - patch zip contains only the changed files

diskfree project is a shell script designed to be run periodically from cron to let you know how much disk space youve used, what directories have grown, which directories have shrunk, etc.
Installing
1. If you have Bash installed, then edit line 1 and point it to Bash. If you dont have Bash installed, but have the Korn shell installed, edit line 1 and point it to that (typically #!/bin/ksh).
2. Decide which directories you want reported on or if youre paranoid, remember to use the -p option. If you want something other than the default then use the -d option
3. Decide who should get the report. If it should go to root, dont do anything. If it goes to someone else, use the -m option (-m someone@somewhere.net)
4. Decide where you want the files this script creates to be put. If /tmp is OK with you, do nothing. If you want them elsewhere use the -l option (-l /var/log)
5. Decide how frequently you want the report run (daily, weekly, monthly, etc) If you want it run daily, then create on entry in your crontab like:
00 00 * * * /some/path/diskfree
If you want to run it monthly as well, I suggest you also add this to crontab:
00 02 01 * * /some/path/diskfree -e monthly
And quarterly would appear in crontab like:
00 04 01 */4 * /some/path/diskfree -e quarterly
6. Save your crontab.
7. Copy diskfree.8 /usr/man/man8
8. Wait for the script to run TWICE, then check your email and review the report
9. Send comments, bugs, suggestions to dhunley@columbus.rr.com
Enhancements:
- Altered the output to put the df output first and the details second.

PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who want to publish online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication.
PROPS is written entirely in PHP4 using a MySQL database backend, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Main features:
- Easy to install
- Well-documented, robust API allowing third party developers to create plug-ins to extend base functionality
- Delivery of content to multiple target platforms (HTML, XML/XSL, WAP/WML, text, etc)
- Readers may format a story for printing, or email to a friend
- Pages are presented as static URLs so that spider type search engines may crawl and index them
- Strict separation of design and content - designers control site look and feel by developing templates using standard site editing tools such as Dreamweaver, GoLive, BBEdit, etc., while editors manage site content via a web interface
- Permissions-based multiuser site management screens allow a PROPS site to be maintained by a distributed team of reporters and editors
- Will support the XML-based News Industry Text Format
- Will speak various XML dialects for both import and export, allowing syndication in both directions, and enabling PROPS sites to participate in distributed news networks
- Is targeted at mid-sized publishers serving fewer than one million page views daily, however will be architected to scale through deployment of multiple front-end web servers, separate image servers, etc.

ProShield is a security program for Debian Linux. Regular use is recommended.
Main features:
- Helps you backup your system weekly.
- Checks for extra root accounts.
- Checks account & password files for correct permissions.
- Makes sure a few security-hazardous packages are not installed.
- Checks for a packet sniffer.
- Removes unneeded packages from the local package archive.
- Checks for new software releases, in order to see if installed software is reasonably up to date. Smart-suggestion to upgrade if an important package is released.
- Checks to see if apt is fetching unnecessary information when checking for software updates.
- Makes sure system time is accurate.
- Checks to make sure the user isnt logged into the system (GUI) as root.
- Checks the configuration of the ssh server ([sshd] if installed) for insecure settings.
- At runtime, ProShield will also check to see if there has been a new version released, and can download and install it at the users preference.
Enhancements:
- proshield (3.7.47) unstable;
- urgency=low * ProShield should always be able to correctly calculate amount of space freed from apt cache cleaning. Previously, it would say "?? megs of space were freed" a lot.

Debarchiver is a tool to sort debian packages in a automated way so that you can publish debian packages in a easy way.
Main features:
- Sort debian packages in the "potato" way.
- Generates the Packages and Sources files.
- Prepared for web publishing.
The idea is to make a simpler version of the Debian katie software that is useable by system administrators and software publishers. Of course you should try to get your software in the Debian distribution but sometimes that is not possible or even good.
Debarchiver is licensed under GPL.
Enhancements:
- Allows for signed release files (currently only ones without a password).