Open Source Pixels

A very nice collection of helpful, if not made-up, command references Today, while out trudging through the wasteland of that thingy they call the Internet, looking far and wide for stuff to make me chuckle, I ran across this awesome collection of fake, and funny, man pages. The clip in today’s post is from the New Man Pages page, which you can check out for links to even more humour and an unexpurgated version of this page.

convmv converts filenames (not file content),
directories, and even whole filesystems to a different
encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example,
one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale or changes charsets on Samba servers. It
has some smart features: it automagically recognises if
a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted
filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also
takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert
from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it’s primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Convmv can also be used for case conversion from upper to lower case and vice versa with virtually any charset. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.

Paludis is a package management library that works
with Gentoo style ebuilds, together with a simple
console client. It is entirely independent of
Portage.

bnIRC is an ncurses IRC client and a framework for
programmers. It utilizes plugins for most of its
functionality and supports scripting in Python.

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix, Mac OS X, and
BeOS. 7za.exe is the command line version of
7-zip, a file archiver with a high compression
ratio.

‘Q’ DVD-Author is a GUI frontent for dvdauthor and
related tools. The goal is to provide an
easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface
to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to
burn on a DVD under Linux.

Eqonomize! is an application for personal finance
management with a
focus on efficiency and ease-of-use for the small
household economy. It
provides bookkeeping by double entry and support
for scheduled recurring
transactions, security investments, and budgeting.
It gives a clear
overview of past and present transactions and
development of incomes
and expenses, with descriptive tables and charts
and approximations of
future account values.

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event
generator and receiver. It doesn’t produce any
sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal
or external). You can use the computer’s keyboard
or mouse to play MIDI notes. You can use the
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played
MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file
player.

Cyphesis is a server for MMORPG games. It is the core engine of the WorldForge project and is currently focused on implementing fantasy games, providing rich scripting, full world persistence, and basic physics.

Ctalk provides object oriented programming features, like classes, methods, operator overloading, and inheritance to otherwise standard C programs. You can use only a few objects and classes in a program, or you can write programs entirely in Ctalk. The package provides a translator from Ctalk source code into C for compilation and a library that provides run-time support for class objects. The preprocessor, ctpp, is also available separately, and the package includes sample programs and documentation.