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WASTE 1.5 beta 3
WASTE provides a encrypted communication tool that allows for safe chat and transfer. more>>
WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the Internet, independent of local network organization. I
t is RSA secured, and has been heralded as the most secure P2P connection protocol currently in development. WASTE functions as a both a server and a client under *nix, Mac OS X, and Windows, as well as a server only mode under *nix and Windows.
WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users.
WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology.
Main features:
- WASTE is currently available for 32-bit Windows operating systems as a client and server, Mac OS X as a limited client and server, and as a limited functionality server for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. Porting to other operating systems should be a breeze, as the source is provided (and the network code itself is pretty portable).
- WASTE is licensed under the GPL.
- WASTE currently provides the following services:
- Instant Messaging (with presence)
- Group Chat
- File browsing/searching
- File transfer (upload and download)
- Network architecture: WASTE uses a distributed architecture that allows for nodes to connect in a partial mesh type network. Nodes on the network can broadcast and route traffic. Nodes that are not publicly accessible or on slow links can choose not to route traffic. This network is built such that all services utilize the network, so firewall issues become moot. more information.
- Security: WASTE uses link-level encryption to secure links, and public keys for authentication. RSA is used for session key exchange and authentication, and the links are encrypted using Blowfish in PCBC mode. The automatic key distribution security model is very primitive at the moment, and may not lend itself well to some social situations. more information.
Enhancements:
- A preliminary port of WASTE to wxWidgets.
- Compiled for Linux, and based on WASTE v1.5 beta 3 for Windows.
- Now includes seperate source for the current wxWidgets port (also in development and will be unified in the next version).
WR Time Tracker 1.2.4
WR Time Tracker is an open source, free web-based work time tracking system. It is simple and very easy to use. It allows you to create user logins and organize them in teams, create and modify projects and activities, input work time, generate reports and invoices and send them via e-mail. The system runs on FreeBSD, Linux, or Windows. Free hosting of this service is available for public at http://timetracker.wrconsulting.com in 23 languages. more>>
WR Time Tracker - WR Time Tracker is an open source, free web-based work time tracking system. It is simple and very easy to use. It allows you to create user logins and organize them in teams, create and modify projects and activities, input work time, generate reports and invoices and send them via e-mail. The system runs on FreeBSD, Linux, or Windows. Free hosting of this service is available for public at http://timetracker.wrconsulting.com. The system is available in 23 languages: English, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, and Turkish.
Enhancements:
Version 1.2.4
Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified translations added. Code extended to support additional languages, the older ISO 639 language code is now obsolete. Browser-default option added to determine presentation language. Time duration and large time entries on "my time" page corrected.
Version 0.9.2
Czech translation added. Changed database structure update procedure v0.8-v0.9 in dbinstall.php by introducing a default NULL value for user language field (u_lang). This fixes the "unable to create user" problem with current latest MySQL version 5.1.30.
Version 0.8.1
Support for bi-directional languges.
Version 0.8
Minor updates to support the latest MySQL, PHP, and Apache. Corrected mysql.sql script (database creation) and some links.
Version 0.7
MySQL 5, PHP 5, Apache 2 support, lots of miscellaneous improvements.
System Requirements:None<<less
Network Time Tools 0.8.1
Network Time Tools (NTT) is a set of network tools designed to provide monitoring of a network. more>>
Main features:
- Bandwidth measurement based on time intervals
- Checks Service availibilty on specified Hosts for the following protocols:
- ftp
- ssh
- telnet
- dns
- http ( specific pages )
- www ( simple head )
- pop
- nntp
- imap
- irc
- smtp
- Ability to send alerts based on user specified services to:
- pagers
- cell phones
- A frontend that displays a daily report that can be viewed by a web browser or cell phone.
- views specific servers
- views specific services
- views bandwidth measurements
- view alerts
- Data stored in a Mysql Database
- Easily configurable via an XML config file
- Runs in Daemon or one-shot mode
Play What I Mean 0.09
Play What I Mean plays media files on a local machine based on a given set of terms found within the filenames. more>>
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure
WMitime 0.3
WMitime is yet another clock dock app (and quite overglorified at that! more>>
Yet Another Time Machine 0.4
Yet Another Time Machine is a command line Ogg Vorbis and MPEG audio player. more>>
Primary usage would be to listen (for example) to audio books at 150% tempo. This is still understandable and saves time, hence the name of the program.
The following audio encoding formats are supported:
- Ogg Vorbis
- Ogg Speex
- MPEG
- All formats supported by libsndfile (FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ...)
Enhancements:
- Version 0.4 adds support for libsndfile.
- There is also an undocumented gem, you can use < and > to slow down or speed up by 10%, and hitting SPACE can be used to pause playback.
Bookmark Time 0.2 Alpha
Bookmark Time is an Amarok script that lets you bookmark a point in time in a music file. more>>
When you play it again, you can choose the bookmarked times from the mouse menu.
Simple Timetracker 1.1.4
Simple Timetracker provides an application for keeping a record of time vs tasks. more>>
Timetracker is a Java application for recording time spent on projects and activities.
Ruby Time Tracker 1.0
Ruby Time Tracker is a stable and complete time tracking system. more>>
Future Plans
Planned upgrades include:
Locking down past periods so that no entries can be made or changed after invoicing
Custom periods so that users may define billing cycles for thier company
Reminders sent to employees who have not made entries daily or at the end of a billing cycle
Two Versions
There are currently two versions in development. The professional version uses a MySQL database and requires some knowlege of installing and configuring Ruby on Rails applications to install. The lite version includes an installer that will install and configure an SQLight database and a webrick web server for easy installation. Development is being done on the professional version and periodically the lite version will be updated to include new functionality.
bandwidth monitor 1.4
bandwidth monitor is a small application which polls /proc/net/dev for the byte counts for a given network device. more>>
This program started as a shell script that I ran on my home-brew firewall wireless router (Linux, of course, on a 486/66) to keep track of my incoming and outgoing bandwidth. This let me know that I was getting the bandwidth that I paid for, and it also helped me keep an eye on the throttling of bulk traffic so that I didnt choke out my interactive sessions. Of course, that was before I had QOS.
The program is probably tied to Linux, since it grabs the byte counts for the requested interface right from /proc/net/dev. It could pretty easily be modified to grab the same information from the output of /sbin/ifconfig, but that would waste resources to spawn a new process to parse the /proc/net/dev file and regurgitate it to us. Also, I havent bothered to look at how uniform the output of the byte counts from /sbin/ifconfig is on other operating systems.
As a side note, the C version also uses nanosleep() and gettimeofday() to get more accurate polling intervals and track the overall time (since sleep(), usleep(), nanosleep(), et. al. only guaruntee to wait at least as long as you request, but do not guaruntee that it wont be possibly much longer...) So, if you were interested in porting it, youd have to make sure that nanosleep() and gettimeofday() were also available, or lose the resolution of the time used in bandwidth calculations.
BUILDING
$ gcc -O3 -o bandwidth_monitor bandwidth_monitor.c
Xfce 4 Datetime Plugin 0.5.0
Xfce 4 Datetime Plugin shows the date and time in the panel, and a calendar appears when you left-click on it. more>> <<less
Acme::Time::Baby 2.106
Acme::Time::Baby - tell time little children can understand. more>>
SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Time::Baby;
print babytime; # Prints current time.
use Acme::Time::Baby language => du;
print babytime "10:15"; # Prints a quarter past ten in a way
# little Dutch children can understand.
Using this module gives you the function babytime, which will return the time in the form The big hand is on the ten and the little hand is on the three. If no argument to babytime is given, the current time is used, otherwise a time of the form hh:mm can be passed. Both 12 and 24 hour clocks are supported.
When using the module, various options can be given. The following options can be passed:
language LANG
The language the time should be told in. The following languages are currently supported:
en English (this is the default)
br Brazilian Portuguese.
ceb Cebuano (Filipine dialect)
de German.
de_ch Swiss German.
du Dutch.
es Spanish.
fr French.
it Italian.
no Norwegian.
se Swedish.
swedish chef Swedish Chef (from the Muppets).
warez l44+.
If no language argument is given, English is used.
Note that some languages use accented letters. The returned sentences are correct for an ISO 8859-1 platform.
format STRING
This is the format used to represent the time. It will be passed to sprintf, and it should have two %s formatting codes. The other two arguments to sprintf are the position of the minute hand (the big hand) and the hour hand (the little hand). If you have perl 5.8 or above, you could use %2$s and %1$s to reverse the order.
number ARRAYREF
An array with the names of the numbers one to twelve, to be used in the formatted time.
noimport EXPR
By default, the sub babytime will be exported to the calling package. If for some reason the calling package does not want to import the sub, there are two ways to prevent this. Either use use Acme::Time::Baby (), which will prevent Acme::Time::Baby::import to be called, or pass noimport followed by a true value as arguments to the use statement.
Multiple Time Sheets 4
Multiple Time Sheets is a simple tool to help you keep track of how many hours you work and for whom. more>>
It differs from most time-tracking software because its designed to work like paper that magically totals up hours.
Main features:
- Uses text files, requiring no database.
- Supports only one user per app, for simpler code.
- Sends and tracks invoices, and payments thereof.
- Features a rudimentary to-do list that displays your list as an outline.
- Sends you a backup of your data automatically.
- Assume the user prefers free-form data entry in text files rather than typing into forms.
- Uses the htmlMimeMail.php class by Richard Heye (phpguru.org).
- CSV and OPML exports of some data.
- Automatic hyperlinking from MTS to your favorite web-based software.
Enhancements:
- This release added a feature that replaces text patterns with links so that strings like "Bug 10" can link to a bug tracking application.
- CSV export was added for the timesheet along with OPML export for the to-do list.
OCERA Real Time Ethernet 0.3.1
The ORTE is an implementation of the RTPS communication protocol defined by Real Time Innovations. more>>
RTPS is an application layer protocol targeted to the real-time communication area. It is built on top of a standard UDP stack.
This protocol is being submitted to the IETF as an informational RFC and has been adopted by the IDA group.
HTTP Time Protocol 1.0.0
HTTP Time Protocol is a tool for time synchronization with Web servers. more>>
The purpose of HTP is provide a simple to use system that can be used on any system that is connected to the internet and can access atleast one web page (either directly or through a proxy) to be able to maintain an accurate clock.
HTTP Time Protocol uses basic statistical analysis to arrive at the most accurate time possible given enough servers. The more servers HTP is configured to use the more accurate the clock can be.
Enhancements:
- Cleanup/simplification of the code.
- A more robust implementation of the "-p" (precision) switch.