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ftff, ftwhich and whichman: fault tolerant search utilities ftff, ftwhich and whichman are fault tolerant search utilities. whichman allows to search for man pages that match approximately the specified search key. ftff is a fault tolerant file find utility and ftwhich is a fault tolerant version for the 'which' command. The error tolerant approximate string match is based on the Levenshtein Distance between two strings. This is a measure for the number of replacements, insertions and deletions that are necessary to transform string A into string B. Download: |
gpppwrap: a graphical user interface wrapper around the ppp-on/off scripts gpppwrap is a graphical user interface to
conveniently select a phone number and dial into your
ISP. It's very convenient if you use different ISPs. Download: |
HTML::TagReader, perl extension to process html tags HTML::TagReader is a perl extension module which
allows you to read html/xml files by tag. That is: in a
similar way as you can read textfiles by line with
"while(<>)" you use HTML::TagReader::getbytoken to
read a file by tag. Download: |
Perl 5 Quick Reference Guide The cpan.org documentation tree used to contain a very good
Perl Quick Reference Guide written by Johan Vromans. This this small
booklet is now also available as a Pocket Reference from O'Reilly ("http://www.ora.com). Since the move of documentation out of the cpan.org directory
tree this Quick Reference Guide is no longer part of the perl documentation.
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lfwmail -- a light weight but full featured webmail program lfwmail is a light weight web mail program written in
perl. It will run with acceptable speed even on a Pentium
100Mhz Linux mailserver. It has just basic features and
no calendar or folders but it is fully mime compatible
and can handle attachments. Download: |
webgrep, web-page search and check utilities Note:webgrep will not be developed further. It
is now replaced by Tagreader (see above). Download: |
sled, a shutdown button for your server
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plhtml -- server side scripting in perl plhtml is a preprocessor for html documents. Its purpose is to simplify the work of writing large numbers of HTML documents. It acts like a compiler, i.e. you provide an input source text and plhtml produces the HTML documents. Unlike many other programs of this type plhtml does actually report the line number in the html input file if it comes across a syntax error. This makes it very easy to find faults. Download: |
cdspeed -- decrease the speed of you cdrom Modern cdrom drives are too fast. It can take several seconds on a 60x speed cdrom drive to spin it up and read data from the drive. The result is that these drives are just a lot slower than a 8x or 24x drive. This is especially true if you are only occasionally (e.g every 5 seconds) reading a small file. This utility limits the speed, makes the drive less noisy and the access time faster. cdspeed is also very good if you prefer to listen to the musik on your mp3 CDs rather then the noise of your CD drive. Download: |
blkcrypt, three block encryption algorithms The link below goes to a page from which you can
download three programs that implement the block
encryption algorithms des, blowfish and idea. Go to the download page: |
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Wedding of Katja Korn and Guido Socher Here is a picture of our wedding (16 July 1999). More information about my wife can be found on her homepage. |
Our daugther Jessica This is my daughter Jessica (born 15 Jan 2003).
She is a real fan of Tux the Linux penguin. The photo was
taken when she was 5 days old.
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Making your own Linux T-shirt Many modern print shops take digital images and can
print them on all kind of things. Here you can download
large images of TUX and save them on a couple of DOS
formatted floppy disks in order to take them to next
print shop in your town. Download T-shirt images as gif: |
Blender treemaker for linux
Treemaker is a python script for the 3D progam Blender (www.blender.org) to generate trees. Download: |
A collection of useful Shell and Perl scripts This is a collection of some Shell and Perl scripts
that are convenient utilities for the daily work with
Unix/Linux. The scripts are most of the time plain text
files. Therefore DO NOT try to download them under
Windows. Windows will change the character set and some
scripts will not work any longer:
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