cow

This is a cow emulation widget. Cow! will simply moo you.

Framy Caramel Cow is a digital frame that can expose digital pictures on PC desktops. It includes a user friendly interface where you can scale and rotate the photo, adjust the contrast, and brightness before displaying the picture into the frame.

Margarita cow is a digital frame that can expose digital pictures on PC desktops. It includes a user friendly interface where you can scale and rotate the photo, adjust the contrast, and brightness before displaying the picture into the frame.

Cow French is a translator that can translate to over 15 different silly and fun languages!

The languages available to choose from include: Double Dutch, Turkey Irish, Opish, ROT13, Pig Latin, Elmer Fudd, German-ish, Swedish Chef, Jar Jar Binks, Redneck, L337, Scramble, Backwords, Simple Hacker, and ASCII.

Limitations:

· Selection of languages limited.
· Max. 250 characters can be typed.


Whats New in This Release:

· Visible debugging code removed.

The library born to solve a problem I had when working with the Linux Kernel archives that I use to replicate using hard links. Replicating archives with hard links is both fast and space saving, and it helped me a lot in speeding up my operations when working on the kernel source.

A recent Archs mailing list thread that suggested that use of hard links to create archive cached revisions pushed me to write the FL-COW library. What is the problem with hard links when, for example, Im working with kernel sources? The problem is that I do a:

$ cp -al linux-2.6-test6 linux-2.6-test6.vm-fix

This command replicate at light speed the vanilla (Linus) archive into an archive I can start hacking on. The problem is that I have to manually remember to break hard links on files I start working on, otherwise even the original copy get modified.

This might break because I forgot doing so and it might also break because other tools might eventually touch file they were not supposed to touch. If it happens that I forget to decouple a file hard link, the next command:

$ diff -Nru linux-2.6-test6 linux-2.6-test6.vm-fix

will skip all changes done on the file I forgot, because my changes has been applied to the original file also. The library works by intercepting all file open operations happening inside a configured path list, and by decoupling the hard link with a COW if a write operation is requested.

The library is installed using the environment variable LD_PRELOAD and in this way it is able to hook glibc open(2) functions and it is able to perform the COW when necessary. The environment variable FLCOW_PATH control which paths should be subject to COWing. The logic that the library follow to know if a file should be COWed is the following:

Is the file being opened with O_RDWR or O_WRONLY modes?
Is the file inside one of the paths listed inside the FLCOW_PATH environment variable?
Is the file being opened a regular file?
Is the (struct stat)->st_nlink variable greater than one?

If all those answers are yes, the file is COWed by leaving the calling application with a non hard linked version of the file. To setup the library you must start with building it doing a (for example):

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ make check
$ su
# make install

If all those steps complete correctly you will have your library installed in /usr/lib/libflcow.so that is ready for use. I use to set the LD_PRELOAD inside my .bashrc file so that I am sure that no tool will screw up my hard-linked archives.

This is the relevant section of my .bashrc file:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libflcow.so:$LD_PRELOAD
export FLCOW_PATH=/usr/src/:/home/davide/arch-archives/

Great Cow BASIC description
Great Cow BASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler for Microchip PIC microcontrollers. Great Cow BASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler for Microchip PIC microcontrollers that has a clear and easy to understand syntax which resembles that of QBASIC/FreeBASIC.

Great Cow BASIC compiles for most 10/12/16/18 series PIC controllers, and has built-in routines for LCD displays, RS232, delays, 16-bit integers, and many other features.

To compile a file, drag and drop it onto compile.bat. If compilation is successful , a .asm and .hex file will be produced. Download the .hex to your PIC, and youre set to go!

Here are some key features of "Great Cow BASIC":

· Common BASIC commands such as "if", "goto", and "for"
· Support for most 8-bit PIC microcontrollers
· Standard 2x16 LCD routines
· Complex condition checking: equal, less than, AND, etc - everything that is expected from a good BASIC compiler.
· Routines for on-chip A/D, PWM, SPI and Timers
· RS232 communications - rates between 300 and 19200 bps with user configurable parity, start and stop bits.
· Arrays
· Subroutines and Functions
· Lookup tables
· Automatic data bank selection
· Delays and PWM settings are recalculated for different clock speeds
· 16 bit variables, complete with multiply and divide
· SELECT CASE
· Keypad routines

Cow is something like a waveform editor in that it generates a wave file from one or more graphs for amplitude and frequency. It has a graphical user interface that simplifies this process.

First i wrote some classes to generate wavefiles with graphs for amplitude and frequency. Thats really simple sound synthesis. The waveformeditor of Christopher Rowley[1] inspired me. As it worked i made a little GUI just because its more compfortable to edit the
graphs... Ok. I could produce sounds, thats fine. Someone lend me a midi-keyboard and i programmed something to play the sound at different tonepitches. Well, thats it. Was a funny project, still works for me, but i guess it is dead. This will be the last release so
far. Hope you have fun with it .

cowman reads midi-events from /dev/midi00 and plays the apropriate note on /dev/dsp. You must start it with a cow-file as command-line-option or with a configfile. See manpage.

Have you ever wanted a theme about cows? Heres one, including a screen saver, desktop icons - which throw out the old Recycle Bin, the My Computer, and Network Neighborhood ones. Try It Today! Doesnt Take Long To Download, go on, why dont you?

The Ozone Cow Brain Saver description
Probably you never thought that brain can be turned into a screensaver, but you were obviously wrong. The Ozone Cow Brain Saver is a screensaver which cycles through various photos and drawings of brains while playing an odd, little instrumental song written specifically for the program.

Probably you never thought that brain can be turned into a screensaver, but you were obviously mistaken.

Just cows... and maybe a buffalo, ox and yak or two. What can you say about cows? Well, here are some truly interesting facts:

Cattle belong to the bovine family.
The first cow in America arrived in Jamestown colony in 1611.
All domestic cows are descended from two kinds of oxen.
Old cows in India have their own nursing homes.
Cows have almost 360-degree panoramic color vision.
Cows have hollow horns and come in a variety of colors.
Cows can walk up stairs, but not down again because their knees dont bend properly for going back down.
A cow on a pasture can emit about 350 liters (230 grams) of methane per day.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
The average life span of a cow is 25 years

Enjoy this screensaver of 52 paintings and pictures of cows.

Limitations:

· 10 days free trial

This is a collection of 10 great images of cows in 640 x 480 JPG that make excellent wallpaper for your desktop. Included is an image of a Cow Car and a Mad Cow. Instructions are included to help you set your wallpaper.

This is a collection of 8 great images of cows in 1024 x 768 JPG that make excellent wallpaper for your desktop. Included is an image of a Mad Cow. Instructions are included to help you set your wallpaper.