An App'a'Day will keep the headaches away!

BashLogic · 2008-10-23T17:03:21+00:00

I was going thru my bookmarks and noticed that i have gathered a considerable amount of "good" links. I thought of posting this thread and post an App'a'Day...

BashLogic

MindQuary
http://www.mindquarry.com/

got fed up of all those dozens of groupware stuff that work halfway, well here is another one that might be slightly better than the rest.

Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and functionality. As a result, knowledge workers are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever they are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within the company.

BashLogic

WPKG
http://wpkg.org/

ever heard of microsoft sms, or ibm tivoli? heard of the idea of being able to centrally control applications lifecycle on end user terminals? well for those who want to the feature but dont have the budget for fancy over thought softwares to fill the gap, here is your chance to fill the gap and make your administration easier!

WPKG is an automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
It can be used to push/pull software packages, such as Service Packs, hotfixes, or program installations from a central server (for example, Samba or Active Directory) to a number of workstations.
It can run as a service to install software in the background (silent install), without user interaction.
It can install MSI, InstallShield, PackagefortheWeb, Inno Setup, Nullsoft, other software installers or .exe packages, .bat and .cmd scripts and similar: no more repackaging to perform software installation. WPKG is open source software.

rolf

www.gazimiddle.org

Gazimiddle is a compounded nuclear distributed computing development framework. It features a multimodal API and a multithreaded memory efficient adaptive core synthetizer engine. It can be used to develop predictive meta-logarythmic models to study particle aggregation and layering virtualisation mechanisms. With its next generation content development methodology, it can be used as a platform to aggregate events in provenance from different unmanaged objectified programmatic structures, hence providing a layer of complexity allowing uniform resource allocation in accordance to self-generated distributive rules.

BashLogic

rolf wrotewww.gazimiddle.org

Gazimiddle is a compounded nuclear distributed computing development framework. It features a multimodal API and a multithreaded memory efficient adaptive core synthetizer engine. It can be used to develop predictive meta-logarythmic models to study particle aggregation and layering virtualisation mechanisms. With its next generation content development methodology, it can be used as a platform to aggregate events in provenance from different unmanaged objectified programmatic structures, hence providing a layer of complexity allowing uniform resource allocation in accordance to self-generated distributive rules.

err, maybe a good idea would be to create a similar thread under programming where programing related tools and solutions would be listed?

BashLogic

Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

BashLogic

EBTABLES
http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#features

sure you have heard of IPTABLES but have you ever wanted to go on step lower in the OSI table? well here is the answer. The ebtables utility enables basic Ethernet frame filtering on a Linux bridge, logging, MAC NAT and brouting. It only provides basic IP filtering, the full-fledged IP filtering on a Linux bridge is done with iptables. The so-called bridge-nf code makes iptables see the bridged IP packets and enables transparent IP NAT. The firewalling tools iptables and ebtables can be used together and are complementary. ebtables tries to provide the bridge firewalling that iptables cannot provide, namely the filtering of non-IP traffic.

BashLogic

TSDropCopy
http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/system/tsdc.htm

Terminal Services is one of the best features of Windows 2000, especially for managing remote servers. Unfortunately, one of the few features it lacks is the ability to easily copy files between the client and server. That is, until AnalogX TSDropCopy!
AnalogX TSDropCopy is a simple to use application that when run on both client and server allows files to be transferred between both machines quickly and easily. Simply drop the file onto the transfer window, or use the SendTo right-click menu from the explorer and let TSDropCopy do the rest. It also has the ability to map different drives paths between different servers and clients, making it simple to move files without any hassles. So if you run Terminal Services, then you NEED TSDropCopy!

If you dig a little bit deeper into this topic, you would find that RDP pprotocol is programable and different rdp clients have different bugs.

BashLogic

SSL-Explorer
http://3sp.com/en/enterprise-edition/?referrer=sslexplorer

his unique software-based SSL VPN solution offers advanced features in a manner that is both cost-effective and easy to manage. These include enhanced multi-layered authentication methods, hardware authentication token support, full IPSec replacement, finely-grained policy-based access control along with powerful auditing and reporting tools.

BashLogic

LUSTRE
http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/index.xml

Designed to meet the demands of the world's largest high-performance compute clusters, the Lustre file system redefines scalability and provides groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput. An object-based cluster file system, Lustre currently supports tens of thousands of nodes, petabytes of data, and billions of files — and development is underway to support one million nodes, trillions of files, and zetta to yotta bytes.

At a Glance

* Production-quality stability and failover
* No single point of failure
* Scales to meet high performance computing demands
* Supports unprecedented metadata and I/O performance rates
* Aggregates petabytes into a group or enterprise-wide file system
* Open-source, multi-vendor, multi-platform
* POSIX-compliant

(I hate it that companies like sun microsystems, oracle and others are buying out key opensource projects :( )

mir

Nice Series :) keep them coming ...
in Paint .NET they are quoting Jeff Attwood :)
and i am taking a look to the Plug-Ins :)

BashLogic

Security Management And Risk Tracking (SMART)
http://smart.conformix.com/

Security Management and Risk Tracking is a web based application to manage information security practice. This is a comprehensive solution that enables a corporation to manage:

# Information security policy
# Security policy exception handling
# Security Certification and Accreditation (SC&A)
# Issue tracking for security audit, pen testing, SOX, and so on
# Third party connection management
# Asset and vendor management

A number of other services are also included in this solution. This is an enterprise ready application that greatly reduces the time and effort to manage a security practice.

BashLogic

KNOTE
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application. Take a look at the screenshots page.

The basic idea in KeyNote is that you can include many separate notes within a single file. This means that you do not need to open several files - for most purposes it is enough to create only one file and hold all your notes inside it. With the addition of the tree-type notes, you now have a three-dimensional notebook: many notes within one file and a multi-level, nested pages within a single note. Optionally, KeyNote can encrypt your data securely using the Blowfish or Idea algorithms. Keynote's interface and behavior are extremely configurable.

The project is discontinued, so anyone willing to continue it, please step forward. the tool as is is stable and functions.

mir

Regarding KNOTE, well i have always been in the need of something for note taking... specially while reading ebooks, so i will give this a serious try :)

and i think i can have my knote files uploaded or self emailed, like this i can keep access to my notes
any other online note stuff ?

BashLogic

AUDACITY
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity

A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.

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STARTDELAY
http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay

Can you learn another language in the time it takes for your machine to boot? Do you turn on your PC when you go to bed, so it's finished booting by the time you get home from work the next day?

When Windows loads it's Startup file, it attempts to load every program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.

If each program tries to do this at the same time, you soon notice the slow down that occurs, due to your CPU trying to help all the programs to load, and your hard disk accessing multiple files.

Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program.

BashLogic

AutoGK
http://www.autogk.me.uk/

AutoGK accepts input files with the following extensions: MPG, MPEG, VOB, VRO, M2V, DAT, IFO, TS, TP, TRP, M2T, AVI. In terms of formats it suppors mpeg1, mpeg2, transport streams, vobs from DVDs and practically any codec in AVI file. For restriction on AVI input see question 5.12. One special mode that AutoGK has starting from version 2.15 is IFO file input that replaced "DVD mode" from older version. Now all you have to do is to point AutoGK to IFO file and it will pick up vobs that has the same VTS number (i.e. VTS_??_?.vob files, so you can't point it to global video_ts.ifo file).

dunno about you guys, but for one, I have been doing some small compilations and AutoGK does the trick!
everyonce in a while i use snagit to take a screen video session to document stuff and for training, it usually outputs stuff in raw avi format, hence the files are huge! autogk does the trick and drops the size to a fraction of the original!

BashLogic

CODA
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/about.html

Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.

1. disconnected operation for mobile computing
2. is freely available under a liberal license
3. high performance through client side persistent caching
4. server replication
5. security model for authentication, encryption and access control
6. continued operation during partial network failures in server network
7. network bandwith adaptation
8. good scalability
9. well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures

rolf

BashLogic wroteCODA
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/about.html

Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.

1. disconnected operation for mobile computing
2. is freely available under a liberal license
3. high performance through client side persistent caching
4. server replication
5. security model for authentication, encryption and access control
6. continued operation during partial network failures in server network
7. network bandwith adaptation
8. good scalability
9. well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures

No inherent versionning support? ... :(

BashLogic

rolf wrote
BashLogic wroteCODA
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/about.html

Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.

1. disconnected operation for mobile computing
2. is freely available under a liberal license
3. high performance through client side persistent caching
4. server replication
5. security model for authentication, encryption and access control
6. continued operation during partial network failures in server network
7. network bandwith adaptation
8. good scalability
9. well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures
No inherent versionning support? ... :(

you can always support the project and help on it ;)

BashLogic

KIGO
http://www.kigo-video-converter.com/

With it, you could easily convert MPG, AVI, RMVB, MOV, MKV and many other video formats to AVI, MP4, FLV, 3GP and other popular formats at fast speed and great quality. So that you could enjoy these video on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, cell phone, etc.