Free rocks and minerals software for linux

Rock Dodgers project is a game in which you avoid flying space rocks.

Use your shields, fire your thrusters, cross your fingers, and kiss your ship goodbye.

Rocks Cluster is a complete "cluster on a CD" solution for x86 and IA64 Red Hat Linux COTS clusters.
Building a Rocks cluster does not require any experience in clustering, yet a cluster architect will find a flexible and programmatic way to redesign the entire software stack just below the surface (appropriately hidden from the majority of users).
Although Rocks includes the tools expected from any clustering software stack (PBS, Maui, GM support, Ganglia, etc), it is unique in its simplicity of installation.
From a hardware component and raw processing power perspective, commodity clusters are phenomenal price/performance compute engines. However, if a scalable ``cluster management strategy is not adopted, the favorable economics of clusters are offset by the additional on-going personnel costs involved to ``care and feed for the machine. The complexity of cluster management (e.g., determining if all nodes have a consistent set of software) often overwhelms part-time cluster administrators, who are usually domain application scientists. When this occurs, machine state is forced to either of two extremes: the cluster is not stable due to configuration problems, or software becomes stale, security holes abound, and known software bugs remain unpatched.
While earlier clustering toolkits expend a great deal of effort (i.e., software) to compare configurations of nodes, Rocks makes complete Operating System (OS) installation on a node the basic management tool. With attention to complete automation of this process, it becomes faster to reinstall all nodes to a known configuration than it is to determine if nodes were out of synchronization in the first place. Unlike a users desktop, the OS on a cluster node is considered to be soft state that can be changed and/or updated rapidly.
This is clearly more heavywieght than the philosophy of configuration management tools [Cfengine] that perform exhaustive examination and parity checking of an installed OS. At first glance, it seems wrong to reinstall the OS when a configuration parameter needs to be changed. Indeed, for a single node this might seem too severe. However, this approach scales exceptionally well, making it a preferred mode for even a modest-sized cluster. Because the OS can be installed from scratch in a short period of time, different (and perhaps incompatible) application-specific configurations can easily be installed on nodes. In addition, this structure insures any upgrade will not interfere with actively running jobs.
One of the key ingredients of Rocks is a robust mechanism to produce customized distributions (with security patches pre-applied) that define the complete set of software for a particular node. A cluster may require several node types including compute nodes, frontend nodes file servers, and monitoring nodes. Each of these roles requires a specialized software set. Within a distribution, different node types are defined with a machine specific Red Hat Kickstart file, made from a Rocks Kickstart Graph.
A Kickstart file is a text-based description of all the software packages and software configuration to be deployed on a node. The Rocks Kickstart Graph is an XML-based tree structure used to define RedHat Kickstart files. By using a graph, Rocks can efficiently define node types without duplicating shared components. Similiar to mammalian species sharing 80% of their genes, Rocks node types share much of their software set. The Rocks Kickstart Graph easily defines the differences between node types without duplicating the description of their similarities. See the Bibliography section for papers that describe the design of this structure in more depth.
By leveraging this installation technology, we can abstract out many of the hardware differences and allow the Kickstart process to autodetect the correct hardware modules to load (e.g., disk subsystem type: SCSI, IDE, integrated RAID adapter; Ethernet interfaces; and high-speed network interfaces). Further, we benefit from the robust and rich support that commercial Linux distributions must have to be viable in todays rapidly advancing marketplace.
Wherever possible, Rocks uses automatic methods to determine configuration differences. Yet, because clusters are unified machines, there are a few services that require ``global knowledge of the machine -- e.g., a listing of all compute nodes for the hosts database and queuing system. Rocks uses an SQL database to store the definitions of these global configurations and then generates database reports to create service-specific configuration files (e.g., DHCP configuration file, /etc/hosts, and PBS nodes file).
Enhancements:
- Rocks v4.3 is released for i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures. New features: Rocks command line - initial release of the Rocks command line which facilitates non-SQL administrative access to the database; PXE First - hosts can now be configured in BIOS with a boot order of CD, PXE, hard disk. Enhancements: based on CentOS 4.5 and all updates as of July 4, 2007; Anaconda installer updated to 10.1.1.63; performance improvement when building torrent files for the Avalanche Installer; database indirects, more flexibility with Rocks variables; Globus updated to gt4.0.4 with web services....

PJSIP and PJMEDIA is the Open Source, high performance, small footprint SIP and media stack written in C language.
It has many SIP and media features such as a layered API, dialog usages, high level invite session abstraction, an event framework, SIP presence/SIMPLE, instant messaging, RTP/RTCP, a conference bridge, silence detection, PLC, and so on, as well as extensive documentation.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a build error on MacOS, memory alignment problems on ARM, and a crash which occurred on STUN keep-alive when network connectivity was lost.

FLAC is a lossless compression method for audio files. Using it, one is able to reduce the filesize and keep the same audio quality as a regular WAV file (CD quality).

The FLAC format is open source, and can be read without any problem by such applications as Amarok or Kaffeine.

Wav and Flac conversion contains two service menus: one to convert WAV files into FLAC, and one to convert FLAC files into WAV.

You will need the FLAC application to be installed on your system to use these service menus.

Call Commander is a high-performance management system and call screening designed for use in professional talk-radio environments that integrates directly with a variety of popular broadcast telephone interfaces.
The system is designed to allow the easy acquisition, tracking, communication and archiving of caller information, along with tools to enable seamless communication between the various key talk show players (talent, producer, screener, etc).
Also provided is an automated Segment Clock to help keep things running on time.
Call Commander is highly configurable, with virtually every aspect of its on-screen appearance and functionality capable of being customized for the needs of a particular site. Visit our gallery of screen shots showing some of the possibilities available.
Call Commander runs on the popular GNU/Linux operating system, with clients also available for Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 and XP. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- Highly customizable and configurable.
- Comprehensive caller data acquisition, status tracking and archving.
- Point-to-point communication and alerting for Talk Show personnel.
- Synchronized, automatic segment clock.
- Works with a variety of broadcast telephone systems, including:
- Comrex/Gentner TS-612
- Telos 100 1A2 Interface
- Telos 100 Direct Interface
- Telos 2101
- Telos ONEx6
- Telos TWOx12
- Works with LAN, Internet and Dialup networking connections.
- Runs on the rock-solid GNU/Linux operating system.
- Totally free and open -- No dongles, unlock codes, software keys or other arbitrary limitations.

Streamripper started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.
Streamripper was started sometime back in early 2000. Streamripper started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.
This is not surprising because portability was a constant consideration during development.Streamripper is now part of the FreeBSD standard distribution, mentioned in the Linux MP3 HOWTO, known to compile on many platforms such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2.
With the emergence of file sharing protocols such as Napster, Gnutella, and now Mojonation and Freenet, the average Internet user can download nearly any mp3 he wants in a matter of no time, but many times people dont know what they want. Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.
Enhancements:
- Fix bug where external program wasnt being killed when reconnecting.