With Config::General you can read and write config files and access the parsed contents from a hash structure. The format of config files supported by Config::General is inspired by the Apache config format (and is 100% compatible with Apache configs). It also supports some enhancements such as here-documents, C-style comments, and multiline options.
NOTE is a small console program that allows you to manage notes similar to programs like "knotes" from the command line. It supports different database backends for storage, and includes a DBI-based MySQL module and another module that uses a binary file for storage and a DBM module.
PCRE++ is a C++ wrapper-class for PCRE library (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). It allows you to use Perl-alike regular expressions in your C++ applications. You can use it to search in strings, to split strings into parts using expressions, or to search and replace a part of a string with another part.
PodWiki is a collaboratve Web-based authoring tool written in Perl which differs from other WikiWiki tools in that it uses Perl POD as its markup language. It is easy to install, runs on mod_perl, and has all required features of a WikiWiki tool, and in addition a build-in revision control system, authentication (users/groups), and evaluation of Perl code.
ping here is another way of achieving this: ping -c 1 -w 2 foo.bar && echo ok || echo nope just my 0.02$
Unsecure Defaults The german computer magazine c't (http://www.heise.de) has tested this software. What they found out is a shame for a security product: passwords for ppp are world-readable, ...
kinda illusion? IMHO the tools does not do what it promises: a download using 8 connections is slower than a download using just 3 connections. Beside, if I use wget I get identical results. a...