[A-1643] Alien 8.83, Collectd 4.10.2, Liboping 1.5.1, MP3 Diags 1.0.07.052, RRDtool 1.4.5

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats.

collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and provides mechanisms to monitor and store the values in a variety of ways.

liboping is a C library to generate ICMP echo requests, better known as "ping packets".

MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information.

It is pretty easy to gather status information from all sorts of things, ranging from the temperature in your office to the number of octets which have passed through the FDDI interface of your router.