Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system. With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unattended creation and expiration. A dirvish backup vault is like a time machine for your data. Dirvish is a utility to maintain multiple backups on online storage, each backup is available [...]

This picture shows the timeline of unix development since the early days of Unix-PDP7 from 1969 to 2007. A good referance for history bums. Taken from Wikipedia and converted in to png (orginal picture was in .svg format)

From wikipedia:

In the 1960s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric worked on an [...]

Downloader for X is a powerful graphical download manager. It supports both HTTP(S) and FTP protocols and has nice graphical user interface, though some actions can also be performed using the command line.
Among others, its key features include proxy and SOCKS5 support, recursive downloading, wildcard matching, download scheduler, multiple download queues and more…
[ http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ ]

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can imitate the job you just did.

Xnee can be used to

Automate tests - e.g nightly automatic regression tests
Demonstrate programs - e.g record and replay a user interaction with your [...]