Channel scanning tool for DVB and ATSC channels

w-scan

Channel scanning tool for DVB and ATSC channels

w_scan scans for DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, DVB-C and ATSC channels and creates a channels.conf, that can be used directly by the Linux Video Disc Recorder VDR. It is also possible to output channels in a format readable by the czap/tzap tools provided by linuxtv-dvb-zap, xine, totem, kaffeine or me-tv.
retrieves files from the web

wget

retrieves files from the web

Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web using HTTP(S) and FTP, the two most widely used internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP sites -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the web like a WWW robot.
logcheck - from letter  - "System Events"

logcheck

check the system log for unusual entries

Logcheck analyses the system log for unuexpected entries that could indicate problems or security issues.
GTK3 port of Clearlooks theme

clearlooks-phenix-theme

GTK3 port of Clearlooks theme

Clearlooks-Phénix is a GTK3 theme which is a port of Clearlooks, the default theme for GNOME 2. Files for GTK3 is a Clearlooks theme ported to GTK3 CSS language. Files for GTK2 come from the unmodified Clearlooks theme.
strong chess engine, to play chess against

stockfish

strong chess engine, to play chess against

free chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is a chess engine, so it requires an UCI (universal chess interface) compatible GUI like XBoard (with PolyGlot), eboard, Jose, Arena or scid in order to be used comfortably. It is the strongest open source chess engine by october 2009 in the "computer chess rating list" CCRL. Written in C++ it uses multiple threads and cores. It is capable of Chess960 and has experimental support for polyglot opening books.
special character utility

kcharselect

special character utility

KCharSelect is a utility for finding special characters which are not available on the keyboard. It can search for characters by Unicode number, display characters in any font, and copy characters to the clipboard so they can be pasted into documents.