FACTORIE is a toolkit for deployable probabilistic modeling, implemented as a software library in Scala. It provides its users with a succinct language for creating relational factor graphs, estimating parameters and performing inference.

The ColorHug is an open source display colorimeter. It allows you to calibrate your screen for accurate color matching.

This is a quick and dirty Python/C rolling hash implementation to generate a series of unsigned integer values given a string of text and a window size. This conversion of strings to integer hash values allows for quick longest-common-substring identification between large sets of documents using Rabin-Karp searching.

A Linux version of the fstyp command found in most commercial Unices. fstyp can be used to heuristically detect which filesystem type a block device contains. Useful for backup scripts.

tldr; Use grc to add "stylesheets" and personal color settings for your favorite terminal apps.

LUFA (Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs, formerly known as MyUSB) is my first foray into the world of USB. It is an open-source complete USB stack for the USB-enabled Atmel AVR8 and (some of the) AVR32 microcontroller series, released under the permissive MIT License (see documentation or project source for full license details). The complete line of Atmel USB AVRs and USB AVR boards are supported by the library, as are any custom user boards, via custom board hardware drivers supplied by the user.

In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss, Mike Sendall. ‘Vague, but exciting’, were the words that Sendall wrote on the proposal, allowing Berners-Lee to continue.

Full text of the proposal in html.

er wished the wrist-handiness of shell scripts be put into a real programming language? Say hello to Plumbum Shell Combinators. Plumbum (Latin for lead, which was used to create pipes back in the day) is a small yet feature-rich library for shell script-like programs in Python. The motto of the library is "Never write shell scripts again", and thus it attempts to mimic the shell syntax ("shell combinators") where it makes sense, while keeping it all pythonic and cross-platform.

Apart from shell-like syntax and handy shortcuts, the library provides local and remote command execution (over SSH), local and remote file-system paths, easy working-directory and environment manipulation, and a programmatic Command-Line Interface (CLI) application toolkit.

Vint Cerf running f. ACM president, "interested in increasing the accessibility and utility of ACM’s online offerings"

GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits .

It scans for:
hidden processes
hidden threads
hidden modules
hidden services
hidden files
hidden disk sectors (MBR)
hidden Alternate Data Streams
hidden registry keys
drivers hooking SSDT
drivers hooking IDT
drivers hooking IRP calls
inline hooks


GMER runs on Windows NT/W2K/XP/VISTA/7

RT @astefanowitsch: So, Erstunterzeichnende für den „Auch-wir-sind-Urheber/innen“-Brief gesucht:

pf-kernel is yet another Linux kernel fork which provides you with a handful of awesome features not merged into mainline. It is based on neither existing Linux fork nor patchset, although some unofficial ports may be used if required patches haven't been released officially. The name of the fork is by no means related to BSD Packet Filter. «pf» stands for «post-factum», the author's nickname.

A cross platform, C++ UDP-TCP Bridge.

Originally created to forward UDP TUIO (OSC) messages straight to TCP to be read from within Flash as binary data - but it actually works with any UDP data, not just TUIO or OSC.

This application forwards all incoming UDP messages straight to TCP without touching the data, just a straight forward.(Since version 0.2.1 there is the option to prefix the size of the packet before sending the data to comply with OSC / TCP specifications). This enables applications that don't support UDP (e.g. Flash) to receive the data. Since OSC / TUIO are generally sent via UDP, this enables Flash to recieve those messages in their raw binary form.

Settings can be edited from data/settings.xml.

Opa is an open source, simple and unified platform for writing web applications. All aspects are directly written in Opa: Frontend code, backend code, database queries and configuration. And everything is strongly statically typed.

JNotify is a java library that allow java application to listen to file system events, such as:
File created
File modified
File renamed
File deleted
Supported platforms
Windows (2000 or newer)
Linux with INofity support (2.6.14 or newer)
Mac OS X (10.5 or newer)

Rc is a command interpreter for Plan 9 that provides similar facilities to UNIX’s Bourne shell, with some small additions and less idiosyncratic syntax. This paper uses numerous examples to describe rc’s features, and contrasts rc with the Bourne shell, a model that many readers will be familiar with.

Welcome to CPU DB, a complete database of processors for researchers and hobbyists alike.

You can browse the processor database by manufacturer, processor family, code name, or microarchitecture using the menu above. Or download our data and use it in your research.

A new commit protocol and programming model for efficiently achieving strong consistency in databases across data centers.

exploit-exercises.com provides a variety of virtual machines, documentation and challenges that can be used to learn about a variety of computer security issues such as privilege escalation, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, debugging, reverse engineering.