Free the ace of pinguins 1.2 software for linux

The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that my wife says make my versions better.

The latest version includes clones of freecell, golf, mastermind, merlin, minesweeper, pegged, solitaire, taipei (with editor!), and thornq (by Martin Thornquist).

Installation:

To install the binaries tar, do this as user root (other platforms are similar):

cd /usr/bin/X11
tar xvfz /tmp/ace-1.2.linux.tar.gz
tar cf - libcards.so* | (cd /usr/local/lib ; tar xf -)
rm libcards.so*

You will need to run ldconfig to notice the new shared libraries.

Then you can open a new shell window and type the name of the program you want at the command line to run it.

The Eye Of Horus is a monitoring and alerting tool for computers. Its mainly useful for monitoring network services (eg, HTTP or SMTP servers) and the internal status of Unix servers (eg, load, disk usage, process counts).

In that respect, its a lot like Nagios, but in my opinion its better. It lacks a few features Nagios has, but it is a very simple architecture to which they can easily be added.

Its a flexible thing made from independent modules with well-defined interfaces, making it easy to customise and extend, but out of the box itll monitor your servers and produce a nice HTML summary of their status - OK, the looks need a bit of work, but that will come soon, and it can optionally integrate with the excellent (and I mean excellent) RRDTool to store logs of statistics (response times, number of packages with known security holes, etc) - and link from the status page to nice graphs of the historical behaviour of these statistics.

HOW IT WORKS

The core of the system is horus-check.py, a Python script which reads a configuration file (specified on the command line). The configuration file specifies a list of services - either network services, in which case the host to run the check from and the host to run the check at are specified, or local services, in which case only the host to run the check from need be specified. In either case, if the host to run the check from is not specified, then it defaults to the local host.

The service types reference definitions in a file which is referenced from the configuration file. In the service definitions file, a shell command to check the service is given; this command must output service status in a defined format, as a single-line YAML list. The list must contain, at least, a single-word status (OK, WARNING, FAILURE, or UNKNOWN), then optionally numeric statistics, then optionally a status message. For example:

[OK]
[UNKNOWN]
[OK, { load: 0.5, users: 3 }]
[WARNING, { load: 3, users: 30 }]
[FAILURE, { load: 95, users: 300 }]
[UNKNOWN, { }, Could not find AWK executable]

When a check is to be performed from a remote host, Horus opens an ssh connection to that host. It is assumed that the user horus is run as will have an ssh key set up to enable it to ssh to all such hosts without requiring a password.

Having performed the checks, horus-check.py then:

Reads in the status database named in the configuration file
Updates the status database with the new status of hosts
Computes an overall system status (the worst non-unknown status of any checked service)
Examines the service dependencies, and marks any service whose state is no worse than might be expected (eg, no worse than the worst state of a service it depends upon) are automatically marked as quiet
Computes a list of differences between the old and new status (services added, services removed, services whose status has improved, services whose status has worsened)
If there are any differences, invokes a notification script (named in the configuration file) with them, along with the overall status
Invokes a logging script (named in the configuration file) with the new value of every statistic reported by the service checks; I will soon provide a sample logging script that uses RRDTool to generate nice graphs.

The status database (which is written in YAML, so easily accessible to user scripts) can then be used to generate HTML status report (see status.cgi).

Battles of Antargis is a realtime strategy game. Battles of Antargiss main purpose lies on conquering not on building.
Battles Of Antargis is an open-source game with GPL license. You have one or more heroes that you can control. They can recruit troops and conquer the world. While doing this they have to gather food and weapons. All around are people and animals which populate the world.
Unlike the typical Warcraft-like games, you have to get by with the existing population and resources.
This is a first tech-demo, so please be patient. Apart from this we are searching for new artists and developers.
Main features:
Visuals:
- animated milkshape models (MilkShape ASCII-importer)
- static models (Wavefront obj-importer)
- shadowmap based shadows (PSMs work in progress)
- fustrum culling
- shader support
Game
- the whole gamelogic is done in ruby, so it should be fairly easy to modify this game.
- the whole layout is done in xml
- basic dialogs and intro-screens implemented, but nice graphics still missing
- loading/saving
Editor
- edit heightmap
- place entities on map

The CImg Library is a C++ Template Image Processing Library.
It is portable (Unix/X11, Windows, MacOS X), efficient, and simple to use.
Main features:
- The CImg Library is an open source C++ toolkit for image processing. It provides simple classes and functions to load, save, process and display images in your own C++ code.
- It is highly portable and fully works on Unix/X11, Windows, MacOS X and FreeBSD operating systems. It should compile on other systems as well (eventually without display capabilities).
- It consists only of a single header file CImg.h that must be included in your C++ program source.
- It contains useful image processing algorithms for image loading/saving, displaying, resizing/rotating, filtering, object drawing (text, lines, faces, curves, ellipses,..), etc...
- Images are instancied by a class able to represent images up to 4-dimension wide (x,y,z,v) (from 1-D scalar signals to 3-D volumes of vector-valued pixels), with template pixel types.
- It depends on a minimal number of libraries : you can compile it only with standard C libraries. No need for exotic libraries and complex dependencies.
- Additional features appear with the use of ImageMagick, libpng or libjpeg: install the ImageMagick package or link your code with libpng and libjpeg to be able to load and save compressed image formats (GIF,BMP,TIF,JPG,PNG,...). Available for any platforms.
Enhancements:
New features :
- Added CImg ::distance_function() that can compute distance function to the 0-isophote.
- Added curve editor example in examples/curve_editor.cpp.
Bug corrections :
- Corrected small bug when trying to found pathname under Windows.
- Corrected bug when using XSHM extension on Mac OS X.
- Corrected/Improved platforms detection by testing the right predefined BSD macros + extra architectures (Thanks to Marc Espie).
- And many small bug corrections.

TAO project is a standards-compliant, real-time implementation of CORBA that provides efficient, predictable, and scalable quality of service (QoS) end-to-end.

Unlike conventional implementations of CORBA, which are inefficient, unpredictable, non-scalable, and often non-portable, TAO applies the best software practices and patterns to automate the delivery of high-performance and real-time QoS to distributed applications.

Over the past decade, my research group has worked with many collaborators on large-scale distributed application R&D projects in diverse domains, including command and control systems, telecom, datacom, medical engineering, distributed interactive simulations, and financial services. Regardless of the domain and application requirements, weve found that software developers wrestle with the same core infrastructure challenges. Key challenges focus on OS platform portability, connection management and service initialization, event demultiplexing and event handler dispatching, multi-threading and synchronization, fault detection and fault tolerance, and various quality-of-service (QoS) issues, such as controlling latency, throughput, and jitter end-to-end.

Unfortunately, its very costly, time consuming, and error-prone for researchers and developers companies to independently rediscover and reinvent ad hoc solutions to these core distributed application software development challenges. Fortunately, we have identified a relatively concise set of patterns and framework components that can be applied systematically to eliminate many tedious, error-prone, and non-portable aspects of developing and maintaining distributed applications.

A decade of intense R&D on these topics has yielded ACE, which is an object-oriented framework that implements many core patterns for concurrent communication software. We have applied the patterns and components in the ACE framework to develop The ACE ORB (TAO), which is our standards-based, CORBA middleware framework that allows clients to invoke operations on distributed objects without concern for object location, programming language, OS platform, communication protocols and interconnects, and hardware. TAO is designed using the best software practices and patterns that we have discovered in our work on ACE in order to automate the delivery of high-performance and real-time QoS to distributed applications.

Secret of Eternia project is a 2D RPG using ClanLib.
The eaisest way to get started is to use an example map from the game itself. Open up (File-Open) the first map in the maps/ folder (maps/1.fmp). You will notice that the map looks exactly like the first screen of the game demo!
You will notice the screen is divided into 2 main sections. The larger section is the preview of the map you are working on. The left side menu is a listing of all avaliable blocks that you currently have in the map. You can click on a block to set it as your current brush. This is similar to choosing a paint color in a paint program. Once you select a block, you can then edit the map by clicking in the map area. This is the generic way to edit the map.
Play around with this map to create some different landscapes and such using many blocks. You can even save the map and start up SoE to see your changes! (Make sure you have a backup of the original map, or you will have to download the game again).
Enhancements:
- Bug fixes! See the forum for detailed information.
- Lua support is added in. (see docs/ for how to use this)
- Lighting effects are here!
- Fully Working Windows Support

The Life of a Geek is very silly console game in which you (a geek) must keep a computer running until you graduate college.
Surf around on the Internet, battling hackers to gain money and better security for your box. Drink lots of caffeine to keep yourself awake, since if you go to sleep, you risk an attack on your computer.
The Life of a Geek is a simple console game.
Save up money to take a month-long college course and improve your education, but remember that paying attention to schoolwork also leaves your computer open to attack.
Find a quick job for a month at places like fast-food restaurants and grocery stores, but remember again that time away from your computer leaves it open to attack. Viruses may also appear on your computer, weakening your computers health points regularly until cleaned.
Enhancements:
- Improved randomness, a fix for a bug where more energy drinks could be bought than the available money allowed, and support for compiling using Visual C++.

Scum of the Universe is a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy. On one side, its a classic vertical-scrolling space shooter game. On the other side, it is an adventure and strategy. You should choose whether youll be an independent space trader, firearms smuggler, fierce freedom-fighter or something in between.

Following the main storyline, you go through the galaxy from one planet to another. Space travel requires fuel, so you need to keep earning money to buy it. You can also buy various upgrades for your spaceship and weapons that affect the arcade part of the game. The storyline itself is not linear. There are also some points where youll need to make decisions that will determine your destiny.

For thousands of years, people of planet Xen have colonized the planets in their galaxy. As time went by, many colonies grew unhappy about their status, as everything was controlled by Xen. Some of them organized military units and declared independence. You can see the status of each planet by "Rebel Sentiment" indicator. Planets with RS higher than 50% are ruled by the Rebel government, and Rebel laws apply.

Trading firearms is legal on planets ruled by Rebels, as they need as much firepower as they can get. On the other hand, Empire forbid all the trading with firearms and other ground weaponry as they wish to maintain their military advantage. One of the ways to make a lot of money is to buy cheap guns at Empire planets and sell them for a lot of money on Rebel planets where demand is extremely high. But be careful as youll need to fight Empire fleet once they find out youre a smuggler.

Beside the raging war between Xen Empire and the rebels there is increased activity of alien species, who destroy human ships. The stronger alien activity, the more waves of alien ships youll need to defeat in each planets outer orbit. Some of the aliens you destroy may drop artifacts (big blue ones) which you can sell at any space station for 20credits a piece.