Free to help software for linux

Tk::Help is simple widget for creating a help system for Perl/Tk applications.

SYNOPSIS

use Tk::Help;
my $help = $main->Help(-variable => @array);

This is an answer to a personal need to be able to create help systems for my Perl/Tk applications. Originally, I just created a really big dialog and formatted all the text, which was tedious and clumsy.

I wanted to create something that looked similar to the Windows help. This is by no means as featured or fluid as the Windows help, but it should provide a (somewhat) simple means to create a help dialog where all someone should need to do is create the array with their help content.

IRC::Bot::Help is a module to dispatch help for IRC::Bot.

SYNOPSIS

use IRC::Bot::Help;
my $seen = IRC::Bot::Help->new();

# later on...

# User asks for help in DCC CHAT
sub on_dcc_chat {
my ( $kernel, $id, $who, $msg ) = @_[ KERNEL, ARG0, ARG1, ARG3 ];

my $nick = ( split /!/, $who )[0];

# Do Stuff...
if ( $msg =~ m/^.help/i ) {

my $topic = $help->ask_help(all);
$kernel->post( NICK, dcc_chat, $id, $topic );

}

}

Basically holds a list of help topics and dispatches them on demand.

Help desk software is vital to the success of your help desk and customer support staff. Tracking and responding to help desk calls is faster and more efficient when using well designed help desk software.
The design of this software comes from many years of help desk experience working in a help desk environment. All the basic tools for running a successful help desk are included in this help desk software package.
Help desk software should be used in any organization whether its a large corporation or a small startup company. Why should my company implement a helpdesk software solution? Some of the benefits of helpdesk software are improved customer service, faster response times and lower information technology costs. Lets outline these three areas in greater detail.
When a user contacts the computer support professional in your organization, what steps are taken? Does it depend on who answered the phone? Do the immediately drop any task and visit your desk? Do they jot your information down on a note pad? Do they attempt to resolve the issue on the phone at great length? What criteria merits the call be moved to another member of the IT staff, or merits a call the software vendor?
All these questions can be answered in some way within the use of help desk software. Helpdesk software forces your IT staff to handle help desk calls in a structured manner that can be counted on each time. When a helpdesk call is received, it should be immediately be entered into the help desk software database, even if it is easily answered.
At this point there is now a record of the call, and this allows other IT staff to view the contents of the problem and makes it a simple task for other IT staff members to offer solutions. This also prevents the call from being lost in the shuffle if staff is busy when the call is received. Your general staff will have much more confidence that when they place that call to your help desk staff, their call will be handled in a structured method to ensure their satisfaction.
If they can continue to work, they will not feel the need to keep calling or checking with IT staff on the progress, or worry that their call will not be answered in a reasonable amount of time. This allows them to focus on their tasks, and not be concerned with the status of their call.
Many help desk software solutions offer a self-help method, allowing the staff members in your company to submit a helpdesk request directly into the help desk system. (granted their computer is functioning enough for this) This feature greatly streamlines the process, and can increase response time for all users. Help desk support staff will not be interrupted by the phone call and have to stop working on another issue to record the call information.
In fact, it should be encouraged by the IT staff to submit all request possible with this method. When a request is entered into the system, it allows any available support personnel to respond to the request. It also allows support personnel to diversify calls, so if a calls is shown to be about a particular problem that a staff member has greater expertise with, that staff member will likely be able to solve the problem much quicker. Once each calls is resolved, the solution will then become available for future reference.
This is one of the greatest benefits an organization will receive from using a help desk system. This allows newer support staff to be able to answer many questions by simply searching the database for other calls. Also prevent 2 support staff from having to research for the same solution, this benefits in much faster response time for the end user.
Everything mentioned above will contribute to the overall quality of service in your organization, happier staff and faster response time will mean lower costs and higher productivity for your organization.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug found in the main form that caused some performance problems in certain system configurations.

SVK::Command::Help is a Perl module to show help.

OPTIONS

Optionally svk helps can pipe through a pager, for it is easier to read if the output is too long. For using this feature, please set environment variable SVKPAGER to some pager program. For example:

# bash, zsh users
export SVKPAGER=/usr/bin/less

# tcsh users
setenv SVKPAGER /usr/bin/less

Loro project is an open system (language and IDE) intended to help beginners learn to program.
It uses its own programming language and includes an integrated development environment system focused on first-year students.
The language features a "specify, then implement" methodology; you have to specify a task before writing any implementation (algorithm).
Specification is an explict, compilable construction to make a contract between suppliers and clients, and can be implemented in either Loro or Java (via BeanShell).
The IDE features support for test-driven developing, syntax highlighting, and automatic HTML documentation generation and visualization.
Enhancements:
- fixed: string "method" was missing

Watchpost is a file change monitoring program written for the GNOME desktop environment. The user sets files or folders to monitor for change and Watchpost will report any changes to the files monitored.

The tool was designed to help people keep an eye on what is being modified in their system.

realcap is a bash utility to help with capturing streams from realplayer.

From the help file we can see the next options:

Most basic operation requires only the stream URL.
Available options:
-v, --version display version
-h, --help display help text
-c, --captime duration of stream in seconds. remember to take initial buffering into account (defaults to 1 hour)
-o, --oggbits nominal bitrate (kbps) of ogg vorbis output. if omitted ogg encoding will not occur
-m, --mp3bits constant bitrate (kbps) of mp3 output. if omitted mp3 encoding will not occur
-q, --oggquality ogg vorbis quality between 0 - 10, 10 being the highest. Fractional values allowed
-a, --trackartist artists name for ID3 tag in compressed output file
-t, --tracktitle track title for ID3 tag in compressed output file
-f, --filename all output files will be given this name. do not provide an extension( defaults to vsound.wav/ogg/mp3)
-d, --delete deletes wav file after recording if ogg vorbis bitrate/mp3 is specified (otherwise this parameter is ignored)

GenChemLab is an OpenGL-based application intended to simulate several common general chemistry exercises. It is meant to be used to help students prepare for actual lab experience. It could also be used in cases where laboratory facilites are not accessible, for instance in K-12 schools or home schooling.

At present, supported experiments include titration, calorimetry, freezing point depression, vapor pressure, and spectrophotometry.