Free settings band 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).

LibBand is a simple library wrapper written in assembly and C (but I plan to rewrite everything in C) useful if you want to limit the bandwidth used by a program.
It simply overrides some libc functions, using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, and puts some pauses in the program to clamp the bandwidth at the specified value, for both upload and download operations.
You just have to set UPLOAD_BAND and DOWNLOAD_BAND and run your program, for example:
export LD_PRELOAD=/replace-with-the-path/to/libband.so
export UPLOAD_BAND=1024
export DOWNLOAD_BAND=8192
ftp somewhere.com
The bandwidth must be expressed in bytes/s, and so in the above example, we want the upload band clamped at 1.0 kb/s, the download band at 8.0 kb/s.
Theres a small utility in the scripts/ directory, called lb: you can use it to set everything and start your program from a nice whiptail/dialog environment.
You need NASM to build the binary (but dont worry, a pre-assembled version is included in the package).
Just type "make" to compile, and "make install" to install the library.
Remember that $HOME/lib is the default installation directory, so you usually have to export LD_PRELOAD by using:
export LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/lib/libband.so
The "lb" script is configured to work with this path, but you may change it by editing the script itself (search for the LIBPATH variable).
Please note that at the moment libBand DOESNT WORK with multithreaded and _graphic_ applications.
Enhancements:
- We keep track of sockets by wrapping socket(), accept() and close(). The old fstat() mechanism has been obsoleted.

setv4l is a simple command line program for changing the picture settings of a video 4 linux device.
You can change (if the specified device allows) the following settings:
- Brightness
- Hue
- Colour
- Contrast
- Whiteness.
For each you can specify a value from 0 to 65535.
I wrote setv4l project for managing remote webcams. It was originally called vidcontrol, but I found out that a program with that name existed with FreeBSD.
Installation:
- Just unpack it and do a make.
For my webcams I use the vidcat program for capturing. It is part of the w3cam package. However it does not comply to the v4l spec in respect to picture sizes (actually it doesnt set the size at all.....)

getmsmp3 provides a script that downloads MP3s from MySpace bands and profiles.

getmsmp3 is a script that downloads MP3s off of MySpace profiles (including band playlists) to the current directory.

Since this program can only download publically-accessible files with no authentication it is assumed all file downloads are legal until MySpace decides to implement some DRM or at least a username and password requirement.

Or heck, even a "please-dont-download-MP3s" click-through license. In the meanwhile you the user assume all liability by using this program.

I the author provide no warranty expressed or implied about anything. Use this program at your own risk. You have been warned.

Pass this program the URL to a myspace page with a myspace mp3 player or myspace playlist and it will save each MP3 it can find to the current directory in a "bandname - songname.mp3" format.

MySysop is a PHP tool with AJAX support for managing MySQL server settings and monitoring process, variables, and status.
Enhancements:
- This version has a prototype window for the dialog window, new stats, and minor bugfixes.

Sabayon is a system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop settings.

Sabayon provides a sane way to edit GConf defaults and GConf mandatory keys: the same way you edit your desktop. Sabayon launches profiles in an Xnest window.

Any changes you make in the Xnest window are saved back to the profile file, which can then be applied to users accounts.

Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. The GTK+ version includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP.
It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen, and supports: SMIL 2.0, Ogg Vorbis, H.263 video, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and RealPix.
The Symbian Series60 version supports local and streaming playback (RTSP, RTP, RDP, HTTP) of MP3, AMR narrow band, AMR wide band, RA8, sipro, RV7, RV8, RV9, RV10, H263+, 3GPP rel5 SMIL 2.0, images, and more.
Enhancements:
- This release is an update for the Firefox 1.5 API changes.