Free repeating timers software for linux

RepeatFinder project is a console-based bioinformatics tool that searches for repeating stretches of DNA.

It allows mismatches, but enforces a one to one mapping between sections of DNA and a repeat motif, meaning that a section of DNA cannot be associated with more than one match.

RepeatFinder, after a couple of years of private lab use, is now available for public consumption!

RepeatFinder is a tool for finding repeating segments of DNA called motifs and then parsing them so that no repeating segments overlap - it is an exclusive matching algorithm where any part of the original DNA string is associated with one and only one match.

RepeatFinder has been written to compile and run on Linux and Windows. The source code has been designed to have a minimum of requirements so if you can compile a C program, then hopefully RepeatFinder will work for you even if your OS isnt one of the above. Let me know if you succesfully compile RepeatFinder on another platform.

Further details about the algorithm and how to use the command line tools will be added to this site in due time. In the mean time the first release, 1.0.0, is available for download here. Only source, x86 and x64 linux binaries are currently available. Windows binaries coming soon!

Repeat A/B - Amarok script is an Amarok script which can repeat a song from point A to point B.

Usage:

Right click the playlist and select Repeat --> A/B.
Now you have your first mark.
Hit Repeat --> A/B again and you have the second mark.
Repeat A/B starts.

Hit Repeat --> A/B a third time
or change track
or move the scrollbar outside the A/B border to stop repeating.

Timer is a simple countdown timer. Just set the time You want to countdown and press the start button (green tick). After the time runs out, a bell will ring.

Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms. This project is similar in concept to Netscape Calendar, but much cheaper!
Main features:
- Web/Intranet based - Available from any workstation through a Browser
- Simple to follow, Web based options and intuitive presentation
- Flexible Repeating Bookings
- Authentication with your existing user database (eg Netware, NT Domain, NIS etc.)
- Ensures that conflicting entries cannot be entered
- Reporting option
- Selectable DAY / WEEK / MONTH views
- Multiple auth levels (read-only, user, admin)
- Multiple languages supported (translated to Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
- Stable and in use at many organizations
- mySQL and Postgres support
MRBS is very reliable at this point. All the features that are needed in day-to-day operation are included. Its very intuitive for users, so very little or no instruction is needed. It is in production use at many large organisations around the world for uses as diverse as its originally intended meeting rooms to restaurant tables and aeroplanes at a flying school!
Different languages are supported, there are translations for many languages available (currently Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish). If your language is not supported it is very easy to customize as all strings are stored in language-specific files.
Enhancements:
- Extra options were added to the LDAP authentication scheme.
- You can now configure the cookie path used by the cookie and PHP session schemes.
- A short PHP start tag was fixed.
- Meeting duration can now use , as the decimal point.
- The Swedish translation was updated.
- AIX support was added.
- The language preference code was improved.
- Some bracketing in the month view was corrected.

This profiler is intended to be used to identify areas of code that could be optimised in order to improve overall performance of an application. Typically I identify the areas of concern in an application and place profile timers around those sections and focus down to add timers around the areas that are taking the most time and look for ways to optimise those particular areas.
The items with the highest percentage time spent are usually the ones that can give the biggest improvements.
PHP Class to perform code profiling in order to aid locating areas of code that consume most processing time.
Provides information on number of calls to a code section, percentage and total of time spent on a section. Timing of nested code sections is possible.
Main features:
- Count the number of times a section of code is executed
- Calculate the total ammount of time spent executing a section of code
- Permit multiple timers to be set
- Allow nested timers to such that the parent timers are suspended whilst a child section of code is running.
- Output a report at the end of execution to show the percentage of time spent on an operation,
- the number of times the section was run, the overall time spent on the section.
Usage:
# include_once( profiler.inc);
$prof = new Profiler( profile_flag, trace_flag );
# Profile_flag = true enables output of the statistical information
# trace_flag = true enables output of the trace information
$prof->startTimer( "timer_name", "Description" );
# timer_name is a simple string to name the timer
# description is an optional string to describe the purpose of the timer in more detail
$prof->stopTimer( "timer_name" );
$prof->printTimers( flag );
Output the final report of the processing operation being run. Normally this would be called as one of the last statements on a page.
If flag=true is set then the output will be forced even if the profile_flag was set false when the profiler was initialised

radlib is a C language library developed to abstract details of interprocess communications and common linux/unix system facilities so that application developers can concentrate on application solutions. It encourages developers (whether expert or novice) to use a proven paradigm of event-driven, asynchronous design. By abstracting interprocess messaging, events, timers, and any I/O device that can be represented as a file descriptor, radlib simplifies the implementation of multi-purpose processes, as well as multi-process applications.
radlib greatly improves typical process performance through the use of shared memory buffers to avoid costly "malloc" and "free" library calls. These buffers are also used for interprocess messages. radlib also utilizes shared memory constructs to provide global message queue management and global "Queue Groups" for increased interprocess communications flexibility.
All shared resources are semaphore protected to avoid issues with concurrent access. In short, radlib is a sincere attempt to provide real-time OS capability on a non-real-time OS. It has been successfully deployed on linux, MacOSX and FreeBSD but there is no reason it would not build and run on any flavor of unix supporting System V IPC.
Specifically, radlib provides fast system buffers, a simple config file utility, events, doubly-linked lists, process logging through syslog, message queues, semaphores, shared memory utilities, timers, stacks, state machine utilities, a process framework, a process management utility to start/stop groups of processes, optional MySQL or PostgreSQL database API, straightforward TCP/streams socket API, and other assorted system utilities.
Proprietary forms of radlib have been used in several mission-critical commercial applications with excellent results. It is light yet very powerful and efficient in real time. radlib is BSD-licensed (free to use in binary or source forms) and distributed as source to be built on the target platform. Build instructions are included in the distribution. See the file "COPYING" in the distribution for details concerning open source software and the BSD license.
radlib is currently used as the foundation of my unix/linux-based weather application, wview, which interfaces with the Davis Vantage Pro console to archive weather data in real-time and periodically (every 60 seconds) generate weather images and html files suitable for use on web sites (see my weather page). It uses multiple radlib processes which illustrate radlibs interprocess communications flexibility. Feel free to download the wview source as another example of radlib implementation.
Enhancements:
- Updated to work properly on both 32- and 64-bit architectures.
- No special configuration is required.
- A few API calls have been changed ("int" arguments became "long"), but only a few.
- This release increases the default system buffer numbers and adds an additional size of 8192 to better support 64-bit platforms.

LiON Library is a full nonblocking, single thread library with an API that is portable and easy to use.
LiON Library has full network support, files, and pipes (for spawning children, or processes to communicate with). All types can also be rate (KB/s) limited, and full SSL support is included.
Main features:
- Nonblocking Networking.
- Nonblocking File I/O.
- Nonblocking pipe/system and fork commands for spawning helper programs.
- Event driven, event passback for all situations.
- SSL incorporated, with auto-detection.
- Portable (Already confirmed NetBSD, Solaris, Linux, OsX and Win32)
- Single process / thread library.
- Numerous Sample programs included.
- Support both in-library sleep/CPU-release, or in Application.
- Full buffering control, and flow control.
- CPS (KB/s) rate limits on _any_ I/O type. (Socket, File & Pipe)
- Adoptable foreign file-descriptors API.
- Clean API with documentation, although man-page comming.
- Direct, or event driven, failure modes supported.
- Exclusive File I/O locking optional, across all platforms.
- Internal compression optional.
- Very simple to use for line-by-line protocols, or binary chunk data transfers.
- Full UDP support
- Encrypted File IO support (blowfish, dependent on SSL)
- contrib/ sources include Directory listings library for all platforms.
- Python support! Using SWIG there now is an easy way to do async SSL in Python
- Timers! Callback timers in relative or absolute time. One-shot or repeat.
Enhancements:
- SSL connections could stall based on buffer size, so this has been fixed.
- Minor autoconf changes were made.
- Missing Win32 files were added to the dist-gzip file again.

String::MFN is a Perl module to Normalize a string in the manner of the mfn utility.

SYNOPSIS

use String::MFN;

my $sane_string = mfn($retarded_string);
...

Normalizes a string. Normalization, in brief, means modifying the string to resemble a sane UNIX filename while retaining information carried by the original formatting.
Normalization, in specific, consists of characters other than [w-.+] being removed, lowercasing of all letters, separation of internaCaps, separation of leading numerals from trailing non-numerals, replacement of "bracketing" characters ({[()]}), replacement of ampersands, and collapsing (things that look like) repeating extentions.

Some concrete examples (filenames found by googling for "mp3 playlist"):

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - More.mp3
frank_sinatra_and_count_basie-more.mp3

Cornershop - Heavy Soup [Outro] [*] [*].mp3
cornershop-heavy_soup-outro.mp3

Soundtrack - American Pie 2 5 - Uncle Kracker - (Im Gonna) Split This Room In Half.mp3
soundtrack-american_pie_205-uncle_kracker-im_gonna-split_this_room_in_half.mp3

12. Only You (Bad Boys Remix)(Ft. The Notorious B.I.G.).mp3
12-only_you-bad_boys_remix-ft_the_notorious_b.i.g.mp3

Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown.mp3.mp3.mp3
ultramagnetic_mcs-critical_beatdown.mp3

FUNCTIONS

mfn

Normalizes a string. Returns the normalized string. If no argument is given, mfn operates on $_.