Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler

Quartz is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be integrated with, or used along side virtually any J2EE or J2SE application - from the smallest stand-alone application to the largest e-commerce system.

Quartz can be used to create simple or complex schedules for executing tens, hundreds, or even tens-of-thousands of jobs; jobs whose tasks are defined as standard Java components or EJBs. The Quartz Scheduler includes many enterprise-class features, such as JTA transactions and clustering.

Quartz is freely usable, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Gorilla Password Manager

Download Password Gorilla as a platform-independent, ready-to-run Starkit (239 kB).

To run the Password Gorilla Starkit, you need a Tclkit for your platform. Tclkits exist for
many operating system, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and others. (Mac OS X note: you need the Wishkit, not the Tclkit.)

Follow the link to the "Download" section in the right-hand menu, and then to the "download area." Use any "8.4" version.

Don't forget to assign execute permission to the tclkit after downloading, i.e., chmod +x tclkit

After following the installation instructions for tclkit, you should be able to run Password Gorilla by typing

tclkit gorilla-1.4.kit

at the console. If desired, rename the ".kit" file as "gorilla", assign execute permission
(i.e. chmod +x gorilla), and move both tclkit and "gorilla" to a directory in your "$PATH".
After that exercise, Password Gorilla can be started by typing gorilla at a console.

Note: default builds of tclkit come without support for internationalization, but only with support for the ASCII and ISO-8859-1 character sets. To use Password Gorilla with other character sets, use the source code below.

Install VMWare Tools

Installing VMware Tools

The following procedure shows how to extract and install the VMware Tools image from the VMware Workstation "tarball" (.tar.gz file).

Is it legal to do this? According to this thread, yes.

1. Download the latest "Archived Version" of VMware Workstation in .tar.gz format at http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/. You do not need to be registered nor have a VMware Workstation license key to download this version.

Example:
$ wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz

2. Locate and extract the linux.iso VMware Tools image from the tarball.

Locate the linux.iso file (example):
$ tar ztvf VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz | grep linux.iso
vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso

Extract the linux.iso file (example):
$ tar zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso

3. Mount the linux.iso file as a loopback file system, and either share the loopback file system with Samba, or copy the VMware Tools files to a location accessible by your guest system.

$ mkdir /tmp/vmware_tools
$ mount -o loop linux.iso /tmp/vmware_tools

4. In your guest system, run vmware-install.py from the VMware Tools directory.