Lluís Batlle i Rossell

Task Spooler

Unix batch system where the tasks spooled run one after the other. The amount of jobs to run at once can be set at any time. Each user in each system has his own job queue. The tasks are run in the correct context (that of enqueue) from any shell/process, and its output/results can be easily ... [More] watched. It is very useful when you know that your commands depend on a lot of RAM, a lot of disk use, give a lot of output, or for whatever reason it's better not to run them all at the same time, while you want to keep your resources busy for maximum benfit. Its interface allows using it easily in scripts. [Less]

Terminal Mixer

This program can start processes inside a pseudo-terminal, which can be accessed through a Unix socket, TCP or even raw ethernet (using the ethernet protocol 0xCACA). The programs can be linked to the current terminal, or they can be unlinked like in nohup. But even in this latter case you can connect to them using the mentioned protocols.

offrss

Standalone program that can download your favourite feeds, and then show them in your favourite web browser spawning a simple local web server. It will not only download the feeds text, but also the pictures, so you will be able to read offline also comics stripes and enjoy the posts with pictures ... [More] in them. It remembers what you read and what not, and all the information stays in normal files, so you can synchronise that easily to any device that may not have an internet connection. It can also work as a CGI to serve your feeds in your website, and can update the feeds from crontab. It has few dependencies to build and can be cross compiled easily. [Less]

btar

A tar-compatible archiver, that allows arbitrary compression and ciphering, reduncancy, differential backup, indexed extraction, multicore compression, input and output serialisation and tolerance to partial archive errors.

qjpegrest

Graphical application to aid in the restoration of JPEG compressed images, in order to reduce the noise added by the JPEG lossy compression, through the implementation of restoration algorithms and the manual tuning of their parameters.