Free technical support software for linux

The UbuntuLiveChatSupport aims to provide an interface to communicate to other ubuntu users with the same language & location, as well as to connect to the official ubuntu channel in Freenode.org. Ubuntu Live Chat Support also aims to get live chat support from ubuntu users right into the desktop menu, via "System > Help > Live Chat Support".
Rationale
People who dont speak english and want local support in their language will face a challenge to gain help in existing documentations, specially when there are just a few documentations for their language. But if they speak to someone that can understand their language, they can talk to an experienced user to provide them with answers. It might as well be positive, because there might be a good chance that they will collaborate on translation of documentations and software for their language, as well as contributing to the Ubuntu work.
Another problem with the current way of getting help in Ubuntu requires the user to read and browse documentations, but what most users really want is getting the right answers to the questions straight. Browsing and reading documentations sometimes require one to research on a particular problem. But to get the right answer from an experience user is the most easiest way.
Scope
This will use Gaim as an IRC client, but will not alter the main Gaim configurations. It will add the IRC channels defined in InternetRelayChat in Gaim buddy list, namely, Localized Channels, Support Channels, and Team Collaboration Channels.
Enhancements:
- Change the name "Auto-Join Default" to "Default"
- Overhaul the Local Channel names
- A new channel will be autojoined based on language.
- Added the language to "Local Languages" group
- Change the name of "Local Ubuntu Channels" to "Local Channels"
- UI improvements, in Nick registration, add a "Passwords do not match" warning.
- Impliment a settings in login page to choose from 2 different layout, the default top channels tab and alternative left channels tab. The static xchat-gnome look is removed.
- Add a new checkbox for privacy, when registration.
- Impliment registration privacy when the checkbox is toggled.

ZMI Replace Support is a project which adds search & replace functionality to Zope objects that live in the ZODB.
This product adds search & replace functionality to Zope objects that live in the ZODB. A "Replace" tab is added to the ZMI of Folders and folderish objects, that allows to locate Zope objects and replace strings in these objects.
Replacement is carried out by handlers created for the individual object types. Handlers for standard Zope objects are provided by default: DTMLMethod, DTMLDocument, PythonScript, PageTemplate, and ZSQLMethod. Handlers for other objects types can very easily be created.
Enhancements:
- Updated to work with Zope 2.7.

SimpleGUI Support Module project is a simple GUI widget set for SDL/OpenGL.
It is useful for any simple OpenGL apps that needs a simple GUI.
Getting the latest version through SVN and install it:
- Download:
# svn co https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/svn/simple
- Compile:
# cd simple
# make
Enhancements:
- Fixed a minor error in the SimpleGUI Makefile.

KDesktop transparency support is a KDE patch that adds support for real transparency to kdesktop. It adds two new composite manager related features. To activate the features kdesktop has to be started with the "--bg-transparency" option.

The first one allows you to change the opacity of the background image. This works currently with the beryl transparent cube and will also work with compiz once the transparent cube gets applied. To activate the feature add the following to your kdesktoprc:

[Background Common]
BackgroundOpacity=90 (0 = fully transparent / 100 = opaque)

The second feature allows compiz (and later maybe other composite managers) to tell kdesktop not to paint the background image ("_COMPIZ_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED" x atom). In this case compiz is able to paint a viewport dependent background or to make it even animated. This feature looks for changes to the x atom, so that kdesktop will automatically switch back to normal background if kwin gets started or compiz stops to render the wallpaper.

This patch is against the current kde3 svn.

DirectX support for Wine project enables DirectX 9 support for Wine, which is useful for games and 3D graphics.
DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches against Wine to implement DirectX 9. It allows modern games and 3D applications to run under Wine.
The patches include many experimental and beta features that have not yet made it into the stable Wine source tree.
The aim of the project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9 so that all games and 3D applications will run on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports.
Main features:
- Shared wined3d codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9
- Hardware non-power2 texstures
- Improved compressed texture support
- Many more texture formats supported
- Offscreen texture improvements
- Colour corrections for textures
- A tonne of bug fixes and other improvements from earlier releases
Enhancements:
- Reworked support for non-power2 textures
- Support for Vertex buffer objects
- Support for caching
- Hardware vertex shaders
- Partial tidyup of vertex declarations
- Better support for compressed textures
- Fix for texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius
- Fix for model corruption in Pirates
- Movies in Pirates
- A Fix for the lines on the landscape in Axis and Allies
- Crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data
- Numerous other performance improvements

Tecnoupman project is a manager/monitor for the UPS Tecnoware Adv. Tecnoware (FIRENZE), only supplies a payment proprietary cable and software.
So, even if the UPS is equipped of RS-232 interface its not possible, without spent a lot of money, to manage the UPS directly from the PC.
Ive tried several times to contact the Tecnoware (firenze), but ive obtained zero support and zero technical infos about the UPSes and the cables pinouts. The cable, in fact, is a non standard one.
USAGE:
After that youve compiled the sources, and connected the UPS to Serial Port, youre ready to use the manager/monitor. Tupsmand is the core of the system. It can monitor and manage the power and the shutdown of the server/ups.
Youve to startup the daemon using a command like:
revolution#tupsmand /etc/tupsmand.conf
after startup, tupsmandll daemonize monitoring all the parameters from the
UPS. All paramters for the startup, must be specified in the config file:
tupsman.conf, like this format:
DEBUGL=1<<less