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OREKIT (ORbits Extrapolation KIT) is a low level
space dynamics Java library. It provides basic
elements (such as orbits, dates, attitude, and
frames) and various algorithms to handle them
(such as conversions, analytical and numerical
propagation, and pointing).
irrKlang is a high level 2D and 3D cross platform
sound engine and audio library that plays WAV,
MP3, OGG, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and other file
formats. It can be used by C++ and all .NET
languages (C#, Visual Basic.NET, etc.). It has all
of the features common to low-level audio
libraries as well as lots of useful features like
a sophisticated streaming engine, extendable audio
reading, single and multi-threading modes, 3D
audio emulation for low-end hardware, a plugin
system, multiple rolloff models, sound effects,
and more. All of these can be accessed via an
extremely simple API using an object oriented
design.
spamdyke is a drop-in filter for qmail to provide
connection-time blacklisting, graylisting, DNS
RBL/RHSBL checking, sender MX checking, improved
logging, and more. spamdyke will provide SMTP AUTH
and TLS to unpatched qmail servers. Installing
spamdyke does not require patching or recompiling
qmail.
AKVIS Sketch is a plugin for conversion of photos
into realistic color or black-and-white images
that imitate pictures drawn by a human artist with
pencil, watercolor, or charcoal. It works with
image processing programs that support plugins,
such as Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel
(Jasc) Paint Shop pro, and other image editors. It
supports a batch mode to automatically convert a
series of images.
segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with
the help of a GUI. At the push of buttons, it can
generate a .te file in the /root/segatex
directory. You can then edit your .te file, make a
module, and install. You can make any module name
and also edit present modules. You can install,
update, and remove modules. Also, you can semanage
list and semanage login, fcontext, and port. You
can download SELinux related RPMs, including
xguest and sepostgresql.
web2ldap is a full-featured Web-based LDAPv3 client written in Python. It is designed to run either as with stand-alone built-in Web server or under the control of another Web server with FastCGI support (e.g. Apache with mod_fastcgi). It has support for various LDAPv3 bind methods and a powerful built-in schema browser. HTML templates are supported for displaying and editing entries, and LDIF templates can be used for quickly adding new entries. A built-in X.509 parser displays a detailed view of certificates and CRLs with active links.
Wings 3D is a powerful and easy to use 3D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
WebSite Auditor Enterprise is a powerful and easy-
to-use onpage search engine optimization tool.
Besides giving plenty of information about onpage
strategies of your niche competition, WebSite
Auditor gives plain-text advice that makes
optimizing a page simple even for an SEO beginner.
It creates a customizable A-Z optimization report
that has all data and recommendations necessary
for successful optimization of any particular Web
site in any targeted search engine.
Linphone is an audio and video Internet phone with
GTK+ and console interfaces. It uses the SIP
protocol, and is compatible with most SIP clients
and gateways. It can use various audio and video
codecs such as Speex, GSM, G711, ilbc, Theora,
H263-1998, MPEG4, H264, and snow.
Httpx takes over the front-line position of
binding and listening on the public address and
port of your virtual Web hosting server. In this
role, it scans incoming requests looking for the
HTTP/1.1 Host: request header entity. Once the
Host: value is found for a given request, it is
routed to a UNIX domain socket in the local file
system located through a database lookup. Over
this UNIX domain socket, an inter-process
descriptor pass occurs to a Web server modified
slightly to receive TCP socket descriptors passed
over a UNIX domain socket instead of binding,
listening for, and accepting TCP sockets. This
allows vhosts to share an IP address while having
private, host-specific, potentially unique httpd
contexts.
AgileWiki is an SDK for assembling software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database,
the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic
inferencing.
phpLogCon is a Web front-end for syslog and other
network event data. It provides easy browsing, searching, basic analysis, and some graphics. Data is taken from databases or plain syslog text files, so phpLogCon does not require changes to an existing logging infrastructure. Depending on the log data present, it can process syslog messages, Windows event log entries, and some more exotic things. Its troubleshooting support enables users to quickly find solutions to problems seen in the log data.
NTFS-3G is a stable read/write NTFS driver. It is
available for over 180 Linux distributions and the
default read/write NTFS driver for most major
ones. It has been ported to many other operating
systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and
Mac OS X, and to little/big-endian, 32/64-bit, and
MMU-less computer architectures.
Ideco Gateway provides the users of corporate
networks with controlled and secure access to the
Internet. It maintains a database of users of the
corporate network. It guards the enterprise’s
servers and workstations against attacks from the
Internet. It filters traffic and blocks unwanted
advertising. It can connect remote departments and
employees. And it can analyze network traffic and
set restrictions for the users.
actiTIME Basic is a Web-based timesheet for
enhanced project management, billing, and payroll
in small to mid-sized companies. It provides an
intuitive way to register time-expenses, to
analyze employee performance, and to prepare
timesheets for billing the customers.
alterMIME Pro is a server side application that
integrates with your existing Postfix installation
to provide disclaimer and X-header insertion
facilities for emails. Management of alterMIME Pro
is made easy via the WWW administration tool.
alterMIME Pro is designed with ease of use and
email safety in mind. It is built on the popular
open-source alterMIME engine and was extended with
the most commonly wanted facilities.
Kate is a codec for karaoke and text encapsulation for Ogg. Most of the time, this would be multiplexed with audio/video to carry subtitles, song lyrics (with or without karaoke data), etc, but it doesn’t have to be. A possible use of a lone Kate stream would be an e-book. Moreover, the motion feature gives Kate a powerful means to describe arbitrary curves, so hand drawing of shapes can be achieved. This was originally meant for karaoke use, but can be used for any purpose. Motions can be attached to various semantics, like position or color, so scrolling or fading text can be defined.
libHX is a C library that provides deques,
arbtrees, option parsing, some string and
container manipulation functions, and some
cross-OS wrappers to unify access.
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents
without requiring external extensions. TCPDF
supports all ISO page formats and custom page
formats, custom margins and units of measure,
UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes,
TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and
CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping,
bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression,
and encryption.
pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session upon login, using the same passwords as for login. It supports any filesystem your kernel is capable of, including FUSE, SMB/CIFS, various crypto types, and more.
The ManEdit UNIX Manual Page Editor is an editor specifically tailored for UNIX manual pages. It has a preview viewer, uses the manual page XML format for easy editing, and comes with a tutorial and reference guide. It uses the GTK+ widget set and features syntax highlighting, a complete drag and drop system for easy viewing and editing, a crash recovery system, and sample manual page templates.
Back In Time is a simple backup system for the GNOME desktop inspired by the “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. All you have to do is configure: where to save snapshot, what directories to backup, and when a backup should be done (manually, every hour, every day, every week, or every month). It acts as a “user mode” backup system. This means that you can backup and restore only folders to which you have write access.
ISPConfig is an ISP management and hosting control
panel. It manages your Web server, email server,
BIND DNS, proftpd + vsftpd FTP server, MySQL
databases, SpamAssassin, and disk quotas with an
easy to use Web interface for administrators,
resellers, and clients.
Ezmlm-web is a perl/CGI script that uses your web server to provide a customisable GUI interface to your Ezmlm mailing lists. It has user level access control, and allows you to create, modify and update any mailing list’s configuration as well as control the subscriber base. Ezmlm-web provides full support for all the features of Ezmlm-IDX 0.40 and is easily configured to take into account any local changes to the ezmlmrc configuration file.
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and
groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
It also enables software developers to create new
communication tools with built-in privacy features. It
provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow
organizations and individuals to share information over
public networks without compromising their privacy.
Individuals can use it to keep remote Websites from tracking
them and their family members. They can also use it to
connect to resources such as news sites or instant
messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet
service providers (ISPs).
ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library.
Unlike ImageMagick, it allows operation in several
color spaces and bit depths natively, resulting in
much lower memory and computational requirements.
Some optimized algorithms operate in 1/20 of the
time ImageMagick requires, and displaying large
images can be as fast as 1/10 of the time the
“display” program takes.
commonc++ is a C++ class library for developing cross-platform systems software for POSIX and Windows systems. It provides an intuitive, object-oriented abstraction and portability layer around common operating system facilities like threads, concurrency mechanisms, sockets, networking, shared memory and other IPC mechanisms, regular expressions, files, streams, logging, process execution, scheduling, and more. It also includes a collection of common abstractions like strings, buffers, and object pools.
