Setup and Configure Bandwidth Limiting Module for Apache2

mod-bw is an Apache 2 module provided to solve the problem of limiting users’ and virtual hosts’ bandwidth usage. The current versions can set virtual hosts’ and users’ bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed and the maximal number of simultaneous IP connections.

mod-bw Features:
 * Lightweight bandwidth limiting module for Apache2
 * per-user bandwidth limiting
 * per-virtual host bandwidth limiting
 * per-destination bandwidth limiting
Limiting:
   * Bandwidth total usage (bandwidth quota)
   * Maximal download speed (bandwidth throttling)
   * Maximal requests-per-second speed
   * Maximal simultaneous IP connections
 * Support for virtual hosts
 * Support for defined users

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Install Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Activity Journal Under Ubuntu

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user's activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns.

All of the information is stored in one central database for quick access and any application can easily add it’s own data to the mix. There are several user interfaces which show the information stored in the database, sorting it by type, date, or relevance to other files. They let users tag documents, bookmark them, and even attach custom notes to each item in the database.

Zeitgeist Activity Journal is your portal to the world of Zeitgeist. It’s an user interface ideal for easily browsing and finding every kind of user activity (files, webpages, contacts,…) on your computer.

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Powerful and Open MediaCenter for Ubuntu Linux - Enna

Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna allows the user to browse and play music and video files, browse pictures and play photo slideshows, build a database of the available media retrieve information from the Internet (such as covers, fan art, song lyrics, and much more). Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries for multimedia playback and information retrieval.

Enna Currently Supported ...
 * Read your favorite books from over the Internet. Enna currently support GoComics and OneManga content providers.
 * Get information from your system and configure it (as well as Enna) quite easily.
 * Listen to your favorite songs. Enna currently can display your music cover, the usual metadata information (song title, artist, album) and lyrics as well.
 * Provide a pictures wall representation of your photo collection. Also supports customizable slideshow effects.

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E-Book Reader for Ubuntu Linux - FBReader

An electronic book (e-book, ebook, digital book) is a book publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital.

FBReader is an e-book reader.
Main features:
 * supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker, palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM'edmobipocket, plain text, epub, eReader
 * reads directly from tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 archives (you can have several books in one archive)
 * supports a structured view of your e-book collection
 * automatically determines encodings
 * automatically generates a table of contents
 * keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all open books between runs
 * automatic hyphenation (patterns for several languages are included)
 * searching and downloading books from www.feedbooks.com and www.litres.ru
 * partial CSS support for epub files

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HTML and XML Manipulation Utilities - HTML-XML-utils

HTML-XML-utils consists of a set of small C programs (filters) that read HTML and XML files and can add a table of contents, an alphabetical index, a bibliography, cross-references, numbered headings, remove elements, count elements, pretty-print them, etc. When it reads HTML, it assumes the code is correct HTML 4.0 or close to it.

Below are the sets of utilities included:
 asc2xml      -  convert from UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities
 xml2asc      -  convert from &#nnn; entities to UTF-8
 hxaddid      -  add IDs to selected elements
 hxcite       -  replace bibliographic references by hyperlinks
 hxcite-mkbib -  expand references and create bibliography
 hxclean      -  apply heuristics to correct an HTML file

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