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| 2001-11-19 |
Rubberhose |
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Rubberhose is a "deniable cryptography package". A single ciphertext
document may contain arbitrarily many plaintext documents, which may be
selectively revealed; only the owner knows how many are in use. This review is
a good introduction. |
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Unison |
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Unison is a file synchronizer. Think "bidirectional rsync"; it keeps
two directories in sync with each other, propagating changes from each to
the other. Conflicting updates are identified and reported. |
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Spirit Parser
Framework |
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A parser "generator" that uses C++ template metaprogramming. You write
EBNF directly into C++ source code, without any preprocessors or code
generators. |
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Xy-pic |
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Xy-pic is a preprocessor for diagram typography in TeX. The examples
of knot
diagrams are particularly lovely. |
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Boustrophedon Text
Reader |
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Boustrophedon is a style of text that reverses direction every line,
allegedly improving reading speed (once you get used to it) by avoiding
the "carriage return". This software displays text files in this format,
so you can decide for yourself. |
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YesIWill |
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YesIWill is a substituting Web proxy designed for the creation of
parody sites like this real-time
mirror of CNN. (Submitted by Akhasha.) |
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| 2001-11-17 |
FontAsteroids |
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"Based on the original Asteroids game console, a spaceship with
inertial control has to be manouvered through an 'asteroid field'
consisting of words of a web page. During the game the player fragments
the already mangled page content from sentences to words, from words to
characters, and characters to nothingness." |
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DjVu |
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DjVu is a better compression algorithm for scanned paper documents.
"DjVu typically achieves compression ratios about 5 to 10 times better
than existing methods such as JPEG or GIF for color documents." The
included browser plugin only decompresses the visible part of the image,
so you can efficiently browse large scanned images. |
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Deception Toolkit |
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(Warning: relatively old and not entirely free.) DTK simulates
vulnerable system services (old sendmail versions, etc.) to waste
attackers' time and offer early warning. |
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| 2001-11-15 |
Half-Keyboard
Patch |
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This is a patch to the Linux kernel to let you type with one hand and
half a keyboard. The space bar is used to access the other half by
reflection. See the page for a complete description; it's apparently easy
to learn and relatively fast. Sadly, it only works in console mode (not
with X). |
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ABClock |
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ABClock is an interesting timepiece that strives to combine the
precision of a digital clock with the legibility of an analog clock. |
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| 2001-11-14 |
SDSI/SPKI |
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SDSI/SPKI 2.0 is PKI standard that doesn't suck like X.509 and is a
lot easier to manage than PGP, with free implementations for Java and C.
The Introduction
is a good place to start reading. |
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| 2001-11-08 |
Surfraw |
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"Surfraw provides a fast UNIX command line interface to a variety of
popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power." |
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| 2001-11-07 |
ELIDE |
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ELIDE lets you extend the set of Java class, field, and method
modifiers ("final", "synchronized", "abstract" and so on) with your own
(which may accept parameters). These modifiers are associated with Java
classes which can edit the code via a version of the Reflection API which
has been modified to allow mutation as well as inspection. |
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Rocks |
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"Rocks", short for "Reliable Sockets", are a set of transparent
wrappers to the networking layer that keep connections alive even through
link failures, IP address changes, and extended periods of
disconnection. |
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| Last updated on 2001-11-19 at 04:56:44
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