UIRD is software to control your PC via a normal remote control. It is designed
to interface with the UIRR (Universal IR Receiver), which is a piece of
hardware that you can easily build yourself.

Features:

  * Embedded perl-interpreter for advanced scripting features
  * Learning mode - interactively press a button on your remote and then enter
    what should happend every time you push that button
  * Simple configuration-file for specifying what should happen when you push a
    particular button
  * Network mode sends IR-data encapsulated in UDP-packets over the network to a
    remote host

WWW: http://kbinstuff.googlepages.com/uirduniversalirreceiverdaemon