Free tools of the trade software for linux

Spice Trade project is an RPG/strategy/adventure game.

Spice Trade is an RPG/adventure/strategy game in which the main character is a poor man who has lost his parents, inherited some land and a house.

He becomes a trader of spices and herbs in Baghdad at a time when Europeans are starting their "great voyages of exploration".

The game character has to ensure that the Europeans do not take over his country and his culture, while he has to expand the sphere of influence of his own culture.

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.

StarTrade isa 2D topdown spacesimulation.
Main features:
- Game complete modifiable
- Nice particelsystem for smoke and spaceship engine etc.
- cool explosions
- intelligent NPCs, living Universe.
- weapons, ships, items, trade goods
- Prices change by demand and supply
- three factions
- actionfull spacefights
StarTrade is a Spacesimulation like Wing Commander:Privateer or X-Beyond the Frontier with 2D world view. You can trade, pirate or work for the Allianze to hunt pirats.
As some of you may have noticed, there was a game-submission a few months ago - "StarTrade", a freeware-currently-in-development-spacesim ressembling Wing Commander: privateer, Freelancer or X. But as most comments were positive, motivating to download StarTrade and give it a go, a problem showed up: StarTrade has been german-only.
I suddendly realized that, when releasing StarTrade for Linux-users, there will be also a large number of potentional gamers who do not speak german, so I started a communityproject in our official forum aiming at a first, rough (well.. we got a slight lack of translators who speak english as their first language) english translation - and here it is. Just visit the official StarTrade homepage (http://www.fetzenet.de), download, after already having installed StarTrade, the English-Mod and follow the instructions.
However, this is only a first attempt - Ive created an international Area in the official forum and everyones welcome to visit us. If you encounter any translation-errors or just want to improve something feel free to join the communityproject - the released version is only a first try.
Thats it. Have fun to everyone who will try out StarTrade e.g. the international Version of it!

Crossfire TRT project is an advancement of the crossfire multi-user RPG game. Unlike the original project, it focuses mainly on stability and playability, but also adds modern technology such as map scripting, Perl server extensions, asynchronous I/O, higher resolution graphics, and better client support.
Main features:
- Death is not permanent, and you can get back all lost stats and experience by playing a game in a special place named Nimbus. You are teleported there when you die and you have to play a game (currently minesweeper) to get out.
- Friendly fire is disabled and playerkilling is also modified. You can only kill another player when you and the other player are hostile. To become hostile, you have to visit the church of Gorokh in Scorn and talk to the priest. To become peaceful again, visit the curch of Valriel and talk to its priest.
- Invitation of other players to where you are is possible with the invite command. You have to solve the invitor quest (see below in maps) to be able to use the command.
- You can follow other players with the follow command when you stand next to the player you want to follow.
- Pet monsters and summoned creatures will not stand in the way of other party members, making it bearable to play with summoning skills in a party.
- Map and graphics artists are working on improved graphics and new maps and quests.
- A new currency: the Royalty. Its worth 100 Platinum and is made of paper. (The bank script was completly rewritten in Perl)
- The communication commands have been rewritten in Perl and an ignore command was added.
- Trade shops have been implemented in Perl, which allows the player to trade items when they are offline.
- Big 64x64 faces and tiles have been introduced, which have a higher detail level than the old 32x32 tiles, and can be used with the CFPlus client.
Enhancements:
- optimised event invocation (non-wanted events can now be skipped with 4-5 inlined instructions).
- complete rewrite of town_portal: it now creates a portal to the "nearest" town only, travel is only possible to the town and back, anybody can use it (also removes one of the remaining syncpoints in the server).
- complete rewrite of the range/attack skill slot system: there are now two slots, one for combat, one for ranged attacks.
- introduce the concept of a current weapon (either a ranged or a combat weapon/skill/tool) and switch between them as needed.
- rewrite bow code so bows get more useful: apply damage, attacktype and other stats to the arrows and treat bows as weapons. also rebalance the missile weapons skill so its damage increases with level.
- rewrite the complete player speed logic: weapon_speed now works as documented and there are no unnatural speed boosts.
- implement a utility - cfutil - that simplifies arch and map installation, replacing the old collect scripts and simplying deployment by scaling and cutting faces as required.
- simplify the map protocol extensively by taking advantage of missing bigfaces, speeding up map generation immensely.
- implement inherit keyword allowing archetypes to inherit from other archetypes.
- rationalise archetype, region and treasurelist file format into a single file format and make them reloadable asynchronously.
- make the worldmap, facedata (smoothing, faces, magicmap) reloadable at runtime.
- implement 64x64 faceset support.
- implement fxixsx protocol that saves a lot of bandwidth over the old image/face/smooth packets and allows images > packetsize, incremental and background transfers.
- implement a bandwidth-saving smoothing protocol that works on a face basis as opposed to a mapspace basis.
- the server can now rate-limit image uploads to not exceed a certain (client-configurable) speed while guarenteeing full freedom of movement.
- implement new ex command to request item descriptions.
- implement new msg command for in-game messages with meta information (using xml).
- enforce utf-8 for all text messages.
- added micropather (not used yet).
- many, many bugfixes.

xen-tools project is a collection of scripts which allow you to manipulate virtual images for the Xen virtualization software.
With the tools installed, you may create new instances of Debian, complete with networking, OpenSSH, and user accounts, with one simple command. Images may also be easily updated, listed, or deleted.
Main features:
- Create new Xen instances of Debian Sarge, in minutes. (xen-create-image)
- Duplicate an existing image, whilst updating the networking information. (xen-duplicate-image)
- List all existing images with their networking details (xen-list-images)
- Delete previously created instances. (xen-delete-image)
- Update the images youve created with apt-get, without booting them. (xen-update-image)
Creating A New Image:
The script will contains a full manual written using the perl documentation system, perldoc, which you can read by executing:
xen-create-image --manual
This manual describes the operation of the script, and the supported options. (Each of the available options may be setup in a configuration file for ease of use.)
As a very simple example the following command willcreate an image using DHCP to obtain its networking information. The primary disk will 2Gb with 128Mb memory and swap:
xen-create-image --hostname=vm01 --dir=/home/xen
--size=2Gb --swap=128Mb --memory=128Mb --dhcp
If you wish to give the instance a static IP address then provide the information with the following flags:
--ip
The IP address to give the instance.
--gateway
The IP address of the gateway machine.
--broadcast
The broadcast address to use.
--network
The network the image is upon.
--netmask
The netmask to use.
Enhancements:
- This release supports the installation of RPM-based distributions via the external rinse tool, which is more reliable than the rpmstrap utility.
- New guests will now have a random MAC address generated by default, to avoid issues with udev, and several other minor bugfixes were applied.

VK Toolset project is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams.
The current version focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams).
Enhancements:
vk_tafe
- UI changes to PCR Analysis screen
- New PTS/DTS graph (graphs PTS/DTS values against current PCR)
- UI log for STD buffer analysis
- Updated HTML documentation
- Target build platform updated to a "modern" distro -- SuSE 10. The older Mandrake version is frozen at version 0.8f which is still included in the VK-Tools packets
- Updated win32 port
view_knot_dump
- UI no longer depends on icons subdirectory to properly display
- If local .view_knot_view config does not specify the location of vk_tafe we assume its somewhere in the PATH and try to launc it
- Updated HTML documentation
- Target build platform updated to a "modern" distro -- SuSE 10. The older Mandrake version is frozen at version 0.8f which is still included in the VK-Tools packets
- Updated win32 port
- Removed Plugins. Theyve only been broken for 5 years now :)
view_knot_viewer
- No changes

cdp-tools is a software that provides tools to work with the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
They were written because of a particular hosting center that insisted on learning routes using CDP, and thusly required Cisco Switches for doing their dirty work.
cdp-listen/cdp-routemgr are proof-of-concepts that may be useful if you want to implement a similarly brain-damaged proposal.
cdp-send is a must-have tool if you are in that situation. It can pretend to be just about any kind of Cisco hardware you can imagine.
The source is a bit difficult to follow as a requirement was that it build under both the ancient libnet and the new libnet code. hence, much nasty macro-ing.
Enhancements:
- DESCRIPTION, README: More docs...

Search::Tools::HiLiter is a Perl module to extract and highlight search results in original text.

SYNOPSIS

use Search::Tools::HiLiter;

my $re = Search::Tools::RegExp->new;
my $rekw = $re->build(the quick brown fox);

my $hiliter = Search::Tools::HiLiter->new( rekw => $rekw );

for my $text (@texts)
{
print $hiliter->light( $text );
}

Search::Tools::HiLiter uses HTML tags to highlight text just like a felt-tip HiLiter. S::T::H can handle both plain and marked up text (HTML and XML). Nested entities and tags within keywords are supported.

You create a HiLiter object with either a string, an array of strings, or a Search::Tools::RegExp::Keywords object, and then feed the HiLiter text to highlight. You can control the style and color of the highlight tags.

Some caveats if you are highlighting HTML or XML: Unlike its more powerful cousin HTML::HiLiter, S::T::H knows nothing about context. This can give unexpected results when your keywords appear in the HTML or across block tag boundaries. Use HTML::HiLiter if you need a real HTML parser. It uses the same regular expressions as S::T::H but is designed for full HTML documents rather than smaller fragments.