Free setting software for linux

jSettings package is meant to provide a Java library for dealing with program settings. (I use "settings" as just another synonym for preferences, properties, etc but I chose the word settings because of the already existing Preferences and Properties frameworks in Java). It wants to be a powerful tool for the developers of Java programs that want to manipulate structures of settings.
The code (as well as this page) is at an early development and testing stage. On top of that, I am only doing it as a means to teach myself Java (Im an economist by training and by profession) , so even at later stages you can expect the quality of the code to be quite low.
If you feel like any part of the design, code, Javadoc, examples etc is silly please dont hesitate to let me know about it. Also, I would also be happy to include requested features as long as I can understand the need for them and I also know how to do it. So please write to me if you have anything to say about this project!
Main features:
- Handles INI and FSTAB type of files and settings. There is no XML support yet, but I plan to do it if it seems to be requested.
- INI settings are specified by a setting = value pair.
- FSTAB settings are defined by an array of settings, each in a predefined field. I call them like this because the structure is similar to the fstab file in UNIX environments. Logical structure is quite similar to that of XML files.
- Settings can be logically structured into sections.
- There are two degrees of hierarchy available, called hierarchical and non-hierarchical. For example, in a hierarchical organization, the settings in a file called settings.ini, containing the following lines:
[section1]
setting1=value1
[[section1-2]] //Notice the double brackets
setting1-2=value1-2
would be refered to as
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1:section1-2:setting1-2
In a non-hierarchical structure they would be
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1-2:setting1-2 (section1-2 is not a child of section1 anymore).
- Loads settings from external files, either from individual files in ASCII format or from archives containing several settings files.
- Includes support for default values for settings, both for ini and fstab settings.
- The advantage is that the actual ini and fstab files will only contain the deviations from the defaults.
- Includes support for system-wide and user-specific settings, for multi-user environments.
- A program would first load the defaults, then the system-wide settings and then the user-specific ones. Also when modifying the settings, there is a choice between doing it at user and at system level.
- Support for adding/modifying/deleting settings.
- Default support for validating the settings.
- Each ini-type setting and each fstab-type field have a validation rule in the form of a regular expression. When loading the value for that setting/field, it is being checked against the rule and only accepted if it confirms to the rule. Of course, if the user wants it she can have .* as the rule for each setting.
- Support for flushing the changes made to the settings to the external files.
- Extensive logging/debug messages.

Magic Settings Wizard is designed to quickly and easily restore or backup your favorite applications settings.
Magic Settings Wizard can backup/restore through an FTP location used as a storage medium.
Main features:
- backup or restore applications settings : select which ones from a list.
- personal home dir is automatically detected by default, but another directory can be specified.
- communicates with a FTP server specified by the user.
- FTP settings may be saved in a config file.
- a FTP directory may be created from the interface if needed.
- add your own applications settings definitions if yours dont exist in the database (edit settings_definitions.py).

Understanding computer networks without performing practical experiments is really difficult, not to say it is almost impossible. Unfortunately, setting up a networking lab can be very expensive.

Netkit has been conceived as an environment for setting up and performing networking experiments at low cost and with little effort. It allows to "create" several virtual network devices (full-fledged routers, switches, computers, etc.) that can be easily interconnected in order to form a network on a single PC. Networking equipments are virtual but feature many of the characteristics of the real ones, including the configuration interface.

Netkit exploits open source software (mostly licensed under GPL) and is heavily based on the User Mode Linux (UML) variant of the linux kernel. The purpose of this project is to solve many of the difficulties and technicalities that a user could have in using UML for networking. We offer the users an easy-to-use-and-install package, which at the same time implements effective network emulation. Further, we provide a corpus of teaching material that can be used for courses at different levels.

AddTraction project is a SDL 2-player board game with numbers.

Two players ("red" and "green") take their turns on a 6x6 board. In the beginning, the board is empty except for a red "1" in the upper left and a green "1" in the lower right.

Taking a turn means setting one field of the board. Setting a field makes it assume the sum of the points of the 8 surrounding fields. But there is a catch: if the field is of the opponents color, their score is subtracted rather than added. If the resulting score is positive, the field will get your color, else your opponents color.

The same happens to the global score, which is just a colored difference of the score of all fields on the board. If the score in the end is red, red wins. If it is green, green wins. If it is black (0), it is a draw.

MyAuction watches auctions on internet bidding platforms. Configuration by interactive GUI menus (no script hacking required!)

Features different platforms:
* Ebay
* Allegro.pl

Localized Versions included:
* German
* UK English
* US English
* Polish
* Italian
* French

- Watch multiple auctions
- easy and nice interface
- Use different color schemes
- Use different background (including crystal-liquid)

I would be very happy if you leave comments about this karamba theme.

Configuration:

Right-click on theme, then choose "configure theme". There you can:
* change background
* change language/country setting
* change color scheme

Autotunnel is a small Project for setting up ipip-tunnel automatically. This can give you the possibility to have a static ip address although you get a dynamic address by your dial-in provider. You need Linux-2.2.x or 2.4.x kernel on the server and the client to run it. (with ipip support of course)


A client have to connect to an autotunnel daemon, which is setting up the ipip tunnel after the client has authentificated. Authentification is done via PAM, SSL encrypted. So you need libpam and libssl libcrypt

Change into the diectory where you unpacked the tar-ball. Have a look at the Makefile and type make and make install . If you need a new certificate - key pair type make key
The certificate and key is installed /var/autotunnel.

lsd mount utilities project assist in setting up (creating) and mounting encrypted loopback file systems in Linux 2.4 and 2.6.
They also enable users (not just root) to mount encrypted file systems if appropriate entries have been added to /etc/fstab.
Enhancements:
- The installation footprint has been reduced by a factor of around 2.3.
- Formerly separate programs have been gathered into a single one.
- The name under which the program is installed was changed.
- The tool verbosity was greatly reduced (since standard error is now suppressed for most of the probing with external tools).
- To get a partial trace of the things happening internally (e.g. which external programs are invoked) you can now set the environment variable lsd_lama_trace=verbose.

Stock Quote is a Firefox extension that allows you to get stock quote of selected ticker from any financial site that you define in the setting page.