Free spent software for linux

OpenPKG is a flexible and powerful software packaging facility that eases installation and administration of Unix software across several platforms.
Consolidating different vendor approaches into a unified architecture, it assists in administration of large networks previously complicated by nonconformant systems. It uses RPM to provide an additional system layer on top of the operating system.
It is fully self-contained (no RPM pre-installation is required), installs itself by means of a tricky bootstrapping procedure with minimal operating system intrusion, and supports multiple installation instances.
Main features:
- Portable across major Unix platforms.
- Available for FreeBSD 4.11/5.4/6.0/7.0, NetBSD 2.0, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, Fedora Core 4, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, Novell SUSE Linux 9.3/10, Gentoo Linux 1.12.0, Mandriva Linux 10.2.
- Already known to work for IBM AIX 5.1, HP HPUX 11.11.
- Release 2.5 consists of 579 packages.
- Entirely based on Open Source software technology.
- Operating System interference minimized.
- Streamlined software packaging.
- Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
- Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
- Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
- Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
- Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
- Build-time package variations for maximum flexibility.
- Foundation to build self-contained environments.
Enhancements:
- This release consists of 579 selected packages which include the latest versions of all popular Unix server software.
- All software is carefully packaged for easy deployment on 19 different Unix platforms.
- The major technical efforts for this release were spent on migrating to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4.0 and further improving the Solaris 10 support and adding full support for the new FreeBSD 6.0 and SUSE 10.0 platforms.

wmseti is a dockapp for monitoring and the control of upto 10 SETI@home processes. wmseti can display various statistics and can pause/continue or kill/run the program.
It can be compiled with or without graphics showing alien faces coming out of the shadows as the workunit progresses, with a progress bar that is green for running, yellow for paused, and red when not running.
Statistics for display are;
- [WMSETI..X] Title and current SETI directory where X=AB...
- [12.34%..X] Progress as percentage where X is program status
- [01:23:45.] Time spent on workunit
- [01:23:45.] Time left before completion of workunit
- [TX:...123] Number of workunits sent
- [RX:...123] Number of workunits received (no longer updated, defunct)
- [PID:.1234] PID of SETI@Home client
- [=====----] Progess as a graphic bar
- [PT:.12/34] Total CPU time contributed to SETI@home as years/days or days/hours
Controls available;
- A left click changes between SETI@home directories
- A middle click runs or kills the SETI@home client
- A right click pauses or continues the SETI@home client
- A left click on the top-left quarter changes to/from info text and alien (if compiled)
- A left click on the bottom-left quarter of alien sets the progress bar on or off (if compiled)
- A mouse wheel up or down changes to the next or previous directory.

usb-mount project provides desktop integration for systems using the hotplug scripts and the KDE desktop. It automatically mounts and unmounts USB storage partitions and modifies the users desktop, via the addition of icons representing USB storage device partitions.
The user can interact with the storage device by opening the desktop icons to reveal the folders corresponding to each partition. Each partitions mount status can be altered by using icon control options.
These scripts work for me on Fedora Core 2 and Redhat 9. Several people have reported that they can be made to function on many other Linux distributions with minor configuration changes and some editing.
To get them to work on your system you may need knowledge of Linux and shell scripting. If the scripts dont work out of the box, you should look for errors in /var/log/messages (or where ever your system log is kept). If you are not comfortable with reading logs and editing scripts - perhaps these scripts arent for you.
I no longer have any Linux systems with 2.4 kernels, I think the scripts will still work. All recent modifications have only been tested on Fedora Core 4 running kernel 2.6.
Many distributions are now adequately handling usb - so I havent spent much time improving usb-mount. If anyone wants to fork a new version, feel free. The new kernel, dbus, etc should make it quite easy to create a simpler script from scratch.
Enhancements:
- More fixes for newer kernels/distibutions that take longer to setup usb devices;
- Handle flash card readers that have more than one device (thanks to Edward);
- Ignore non usb-storage devices (thanks to Wolfgang Klein).

A Simple TimeSheet (ASTS) allows a group of people to record the hours spent working on a variety of projects. For each project, the hours can be divided into a number of different tasks. There are global projects and tasks but also personal projects and tasks for each user.
The main aim is to provide tools which are easy for the user to install and manage.
The tools will be implemented with as few external dependencies as possible. They will not, for example, depend on a database for storage but use flat files (maybe XML format) instead. ASTS, for example, requires just perl and the CGI and Date::Calc perl modules.
More sophisticated versions of the tools may be added in the future.
Enhancements:
- Custom data fields can be defined.
- Project and task lists can now include separators.
- Bugs were fixed.
- The documentation was updated.

Event::Stats is a Perl module for event loop statistics. Instrument the Event module in order to gather statistics.

API

collect($yes)

Determines whether statistics are collected. Arithmetically adds $yes to the usage count. Stats are enabled while the usage count is positive.

$round_sec = round_seconds($sec)

Statistics are not collected in one second intervals. This function converts a *desired* time interval into an *available* time interval. Units are in seconds.

$elapse = total_time($sec)

Due to long-running callbacks, measurement intervals may take longer than expected. This function returns the actual clock-time for a given measurement interval.

($rans, $dies, $elapse) = idle_time($sec)

($runs, $dies, $elapse) = $watcher->stats($sec)

Return statistics for the last $sec seconds of operation. Three numbers are returned: the number of times the callback has been invoked, the number of uncaught exceptions and the number of seconds spent within the callback. Also see NetServer::ProcessTop.

enforce_max_callback_time($yes)

Useful for debugging. XXX

SimpleLogBook is a simple (obviously) pilots logbook. SimpleLogBook is at a very early stage at the moment and can only record basic flight information (take a look at the screen shots below). The flight information is stored as an XML file and can currently be used to calculate total flight time across one or more flights.

Immediate plans for development include a greatly increased time calculating facility; allowing the calculation of total time spent flying each plane type, in each operating capability and under which conditions.

Longer term plans include the addition of filters, to limit the flights displayed, the ability to attach more complex data (e.g. photos) to each flight and a print function.

Usage:

To run the application either double click on its icon or run it from the command-line; the main flight window will be displayed upon startup. Logbooks can be created, loaded and saved via the File menu. The Flights menu contains the functionality for adding, deleting and editing flights. This menu also contains the total flying time calculation function.

Right-clicking on the flights table will duplicate the Flights menu.

The new/edit flight dialog contains all the fields found in a standard paper log book. Hitting OK will save any changes you have made, Cancel will abandon them.

n-genes is a powerful Genetic Algorithms and Programming toolkit written for Java 5.
Using advanced object oriented techniques, like generics and introspection, it is one the simplest system to learn and use. N-geness design allows fast coding and a total flexibility.
n-genes is an open-source project released under GPL. It is free of charges.
Main features:
Stack-based Genetic Programming
The Genetic Programming implemented in n-genes relies on a linear postfix programs, close to Forth or Postscript programming languages. They allow the following advantages:
- High-level and turing-complete language (through flow-control instructions);
- Extendable and customisable instruction set;
- Possibility of using faster and simpler GA operators;
- Efficient bloat removing/controlling algorithms.
Modularity and Dynamic Config Files
All parts of evolutionary computing have been made components, through " Design Patterns" methodology. The benefits are:
- Separation of the behaviour from the representation, i.e. we can use the same operators for a GA doubles individual or for a GP problem;
- Short and readable code, since each object represents only a single operation and therfore has few and shorts methods.
- The possibility to change the components or their behaviour during evolution, for example changing dynamically the size of a population or using self-adaptating mutation operators.
The n-genes platform is coupled with a dynamic config file system. This system is able to instanciate whatever class, passing arbitrary parameters of whaterver types, whithout needing to extend the parser. Object introspection is used at initialisation.
Performances Optimisations
n-genes was written with high performance computing in mind. Here are the optimisations you get for free, using our platform:
- Object-recycling memory management, eliminating the time spent on objects allocation and garbage-collections;
- Efficient individual-level fitness cache, the fitness is lazy-computed and cached until the individual is mutated;
- Population-level individual cache, saving computation time when the population diversity dimish.

miPortal is a free personalized Mobile Information portal that can provide an array of useful information services on your handheld device such as a PDA or mobile Phone.
It offers a wide variety of information services for very diverse needs such as stock quotes to ATM locator, movie listings in the city to city weather, jokes, horoscopes, news update, you name it and you can have it.
You can create your own personalized bouquet of services from the ones available by subscribing to them. Once you create your portal you can access these services to get the information you need .miPortal saves your valuable pennies you would have otherwise spent searching for the same information browsing the internet on your mobile.
Content and service providers (most common example being horizontal portals which provide city specific information, etc) publish the interface for their service using open standards (WSDL) and the miPortal installs the service so that one can subscribe to the service from the client. To avail these services download and install the miPortal client on your mobile .
Enhancements:
- New information services have been added.
- A discussion forum has been added to the Web site.
- A bug reporting link has been added.
- This release has a version-aware midlet; old midlets will not work now.