A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support systems with dial-up Internet connections, and also supports computers in permanently connected environments.

A simple, lightweight to-do list manager. Command-line driven.

A fast indexing and searching tool for maildir format email folders. (The search creates symlinks to the matching messages in a new folder, so you can browse them with your mailer's normal folder view.)

A package manager, allowing packages to be installed in separate directory trees whilst being visible in a common directory tree.

A grammar checker and translation assistant for Lojban (a constructed human language which can be machine-parsed)

Give it a try online HERE

A utility for analysing Bison grammars to help resolve shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts.

A utility for generating random text in the style of another work.

A utility for constructing general purpose automata (e.g. for complex lexical analysers).

Patches for pdfTeX (version 0.12n) to add changebar functionality. (Maybe this work has already been ported into the latest pdfTeX version?)

The constructed language Lojban (le rutni bangu po'u la lojban). Here's a page I've put together about it (ti papri poi srana la lojban zi'enoi mi pu finti ke'a)

Technology sites

• Slashdot : News for nerds, stuff that matters
• The register
• Linux weekly news

Favourite software

• The Vim editor
• The Mutt mail client
• The Slrn news reader
• The Z shell
• The Fvwm window manager
• The Opera web browser
• GKrellM - a useful and compact display of system performance
• Valgrind - an invaluable tool for debugging dynamic memory and memory initialisation faults in your programs
• Fetchmail (downloads mail from your ISP)
• Exim (mail transfer agent)

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