Free workplace humor software for linux

Olive is (yet another) GNU/Linux Live distribution. Olive LiveCD distirbution offers quite a good deal of new technologies, hardly witnessed ever before, as well as some of the more common pieces of software. Its size is approx. 110MiB, yet it allows a lot of software to be used.
Olives whole point is to display how easy to use Linux may be, yet without losing any of the features required for heavy-duty work. Its also supposed to show various unusual new technologies, not widely known or accepted.
Please note that Olive was, partially, built as graduation work at SPSST Panska. Once presented, a release built specifically for school will be available upon personal request.
Main features:
Media
Olive features MPlayer for playing of your favourite movies. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, Matroska files. You can also watch Theora, MPEG4 (DivX/XviD), Real Media, DVD, VideoCD, SVCD movies. MPlayer also supports various filters for better experience. Mencoder is bundled with MPlayer and it allows you to encode movies into virtually any of the formats mentioned above.
Although you can use MPlayer to play your music, theres also an application that was written just for that: Audacious. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (now discontinued), which is in turn fork of the very famous XMMS. It supports various audio formats, including MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WAV files and Windows Media, as well as many sequenced formats including MIDI, and a host of different module formats. In addition, Audacious uses Winamp-like skins (and supports Winamp "classic" skins), to provide a familiar and friendly user interface.
You can of course view photos and pictures using GQview, an intuitive image browser. It can generate thumbnails of your pictures, its capable of reading EXIF metadata, has advanced image search function and much more.
Internet
The Internet is part of everyday life for all of us; was it not for the Internet, you wouldnt be able to read this webpage. Olive features Mozilla Firefox web browser, currently the most common web browser used on Linux. For browsing in console, ELinks is a must-have. There is also Sylpheed e-mail client, small, fast and incredibly useful.
These days, Instant Messaging is a common part of our lives. Therefore, Olive sports GAIM2 (beta2) multi-protocol instant messaging client, which is compatibile with protocols such as ICQ, MSN Messenger,Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber or Gadu-Gadu. There is also a client dedicated solely to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is X-Chat. As usually, there are console alternatives, which would be CenterICQ and irssi.
You can use Kismet to look for Wi-Fi hotspots. Basic utilities such as telnet or ssh client and server (Dropbear, used in various embedded systems) are not missing as well.
General work
You can perform some elementary office work in Olive as well. Although its obvious that you wont be doing most of your office work on Olive, its quite reasonable to believe it can come in handy. Therefore, Olive has AbiWord word processor to allow you to read and write documents, in various languages, in various characters, without any problem.
AbiWord can also handle various document formats, which includes Microsoft Word or WordPerfect documents. You can also export your documents into HTML for further processing or publication. You can also read Adobe PDF format using Evince, a Gnome/GTK2 document viewer whose PDF backend is based on the Poppler library, which is based on the well-known XPDF. Utilities that allow you export of PDF documents into eg. HTML are also included.
System control
Considering the differences in approach to configuration in various distributions, it may be often hard to configure several things at yet another distribution, such as the X server or preferences of software alternatives. Therefore, Olive features a trivial control panel, allowing any application to be merged in as a new panel. Although it still misses few more desired panels (most notable for network configuration), it already is quite useful for every day usage.
Eye candy
Good-looking environment always helps users to better orientate on the workplace, as well as consider the time they spend with the system more enjoyable. Transparency can be achieved using XComposite extension and xcompmgr + transset.
Though XGL and AIGLX were considered, the decision was made not to use them for their lack of testing and for the demand for support of as many platforms as possible. Please note that even XComposite may have its own issues with other software, most notably Enlightenment and MPlayer, and for this reason xcompmgr is not run by default.
Lightweight
If you consider the above features way too much for you and strive for something lighter, then you can use the FluxBox window manager. FluxBox was finetuned to look and feel as much as Enlightenment as possible, making the transition simple. There are also lightweight versions of some of the software, as mentioned above, such as irssi, CenterICQ or ELinks.
Enhancements:
- A significant bug was found in v0.1, causing ramdisk for people who have 1GiB of RAM or more broken. Please, upgrade to 0.2.

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing.
The two computers dont even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home. VNC is freely and publicly available and is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately.
RealVNC is a UK company founded in 2002 by a team from the world-leading AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge. The company was established to commercially develop, enhance and promote VNC, the innovative remote access software with a widespread international user base.
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software makes it possible to view and fully-interact with one computer from any other computer or mobile device anywhere on the Internet. VNC software is cross-platform, allowing remote control between different types of computer. For ultimate simplicity, there is even a Java viewer, so that any desktop can be controlled remotely from within a browser without having to install software.
VNC has a wide range of applications including system administration, IT support and helpdesks. It can also be used to support the mobile user, both for hot desking within the enterprise and also to provide remote access at home, or on the road. The system allows several connections to the same desktop, providing an invaluable tool for collaborative or shared working in the workplace or classroom. Computer support within the geographically spread family is an ever popular use.
The open source version of VNC has been freely available since 1998, and more than 50 million copies of the software have been downloaded. The software has also appeared on numerous magazine cover disks, and for several years all popular versions of Linux have included VNC. It is in active use by many millions in industry, commerce, education and at home. Virtually all Fortune 500 companies use VNC, and installations of VNC across thousands of workstations are commonplace.
Enhancements:
- FIXED: Security vulnerability.

yEd is a powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. It can be used to quickly generate drawings and apply automatic layouts to all kinds of diagrams and networks. yEd is available as a free download with unrestricted functionality!
yEd makes use of the yFiles library which is a Java class library for viewing, editing, optimizing, drawing, and animating diagrams, networks, and other graph-like structures.
yEd is built using 100% lightweight Swing components, i.e., it will run on any platform for which there is a suitable Runtime Environment available.
Main features:
yEd can be used to automatically layout complex graph structures. Several highly sophisticated layout algorithms have been implemented and ship with yEd. They can be used to either arrange the items fully automatically or support the user during a manual layout.
- New in version 2.3.1: Interactive Hierarchical Layout can be used to interactively layout hierarchical or pseudo-hierarchical scenarios.
- Hierarchical Layout can be used to perfectly visualize hierarchical or pseudo-hierarchical scenarios.
- Orthogonal Layout produces clear representations of complex networks.
- Organic Layout and Smart Organic Layout produce clear representations of complex diagrams like ER-diagrams, UML diagrams and many more.
- Organic Edge Router reroutes edges in existing drawings organically.
- Orthogonal Edge Router can reroute edges in existing drawings orthogonally.
- Circular Layout portrays interconnected ring and star topologies perfectly.
- Tree Layout can be used to visualize tree-like structures in many different ways.
- New in version 2.3.1: The tree layout algorithms can also be used on graphs that are almost like trees.
yEd enables users to create groups of nodes. These groups can be visualized and nested to virtually any degree. Of course the new layout algorithms support this type of visualization perfectly. Using this feature complex structures can be visualized and laid out even clearer than before.
Another one of yEds most powerful features is its ability to automatically assign label positions. This will help the user to easily build better readable diagrams.
yEd has an intuitive user interface that complies with the design guidelines for Java applications. Among its various features are:
- New in version 2.3.1: a customizable workplace lets you arrange your tool windows to your needs
- New in version 2.3.1: table-like property editors allow you to configure the graphical properties easily
- Internationalization: yEd has been localized in English, German, and partially in Japanese
- New in version 2.3.1: a sophisticated print preview allows you to preview the printing results (especially useful for poster-printing)
- Session Management: yEd remembers and manages your settings
- Undoability support
- Clipboard facility
- Keyboard shortcuts for most of the functions
- Integrated help system
yEd can be used to build, modify, and visualize graph structures. They can be loaded using several different file formats, among them are:
- Full support for the YGF file format. The native file format.
- Full support for the XML-based GraphML file format.
- Full support for the GML graph file format. GML is a popular text-based graph file format.
- New in version 2.3.1: Full support for the XML-based GML graph file format. This is a variant of the GML language that uses XML syntax.
- Import of arbitrary XML files. An XSLT stylesheet must be given that transforms the XML input into a valid GraphML. Predefined stylesheets for Ant build scripts, the OWL Web ontology language and others are included.
- Export to the SVG vector graphics file format.
- Export to the Windows Meta File (WMF) file format. A vector graphics format used in almost any Windows application.
- Export to JPG and GIF file formats. Export large images as multiple images and HTML tables also supported!
- New in version 2.3.1: Export to BMP (on Windows machines) and PNG file formats.
All of the image export formats can be fully customized.
The editor supports the complete set of graphical attributes necessary for effective graph visualization. It offers built-in support for:
- preconfigured node types for UML object diagrams and class diagrams!
- multiple labels for nodes and edges
- multi-line and icon labels
- powerful searching and selection utilities
- zooming and overview
- a set of beautiful icons to get you started with your first diagrams

Omega project is a Rogue-like role-playing game.

Omega is a rogue-like game featuring character development, a large map, and a warped sense of humor. There are almost as many variants of Omega as there are of Rogue in general. This version is maintained by Erik Francis.

There should be little need for the wizard to actively maintain the game. But.....

After years of play, the file omega.log may get unwieldy and overlarge. This file can simply be truncated as follows. Log records are now one line at a time, so just delete as many lines as you like, making sure there are no blank lines, and that the file ends on an end of line.

You can even remove omega.log completely as long as you replace it with a null file of the same name. If you opt to make omega not setuid, omega.log must be publically writeable.

YSM is a Free, open source (GPL license) console based ICQ client written in the C language. The project was born in the year 2001 when Mirabilis (AOL) introduced a new version of the ICQ protocol.
Full of humor and interesting features, ysm has an easy to use command line interface which allows faster communication with your contacts and provides many OS dependent comfortable options.
YSM project has been tested to run on Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BeOS, QNX, Irix, SunOS and OS/2.
Main features:
- consoled based client
- ICQ protocol version 7 and 8.
- plaintext and encrypted (AES algorithm) message sending.
- plaintext and encrypted (AES algorithm) file transfers.
- contacts download and upload from/to ICQ servers.
- search features.
- invisible, visible and ignore lists management.
- fingerprinting of remote clients.
- sending/receiving of URLs.
- sending/receiving of contacts.
- OS dependent comfortable options.
- and lots of more features!
Enhancements:
- A major bugfix related to the ability to send and receive messages.
- A recent protocol change had disabled the messaging functionality.

xmms-syncup is a C language plugin to the XMMS media player that provides real-time synchronization of audio playback.

xmms-syncup is useful in environments such as dorms, houses, or workplaces where multiple networked computers have independently driven speakers.

Mechanics

Operationally, a single machine is designated as the "server". The XMMS process running on the server operates as normal and does not attempt to track the progress of other players. Via xmmsd, the server makes available to clients (running xmms-syncup) its playlist, current playlist position, and audio playback cursor. Each client periodically (<<less