• Switching to Linux
• Software to Try

This page contains a list of software that sounds interesting to me.

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Software to Try

Serial Terminal Emulators

Minicom makes my head hurt.

• ArduinoHowto – BeRTOS

  • $ setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 baud_base 115200

  • $ dd if=/dev/ttyUSB0 bs=1

• socat

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Approdictio an "approximate dictionary" eg "did you mean _?"

Windows management/ terminal emulation

• 'the main focus is arranging terminals in grids' - Terminator – tenshu.net

Statistics

• SOFA Statistics Open For All - Features

VOIP

• Mumble moin devs use it

Testing

Software behavior space (Flickr image by Tyler Oderkirk)

See also Creds101/Testing and Switching to Linux/Programming#Testing

• 'Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial's unified test format.' - Cram: It's test time

  • via Daily Life in an Ivory Basement : /mar-11/trying-out-cram

• 'Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).' - Project SIKULI

  • Anyone know a good Linux alternative to this? (automate repetitive mouse/keyboard actions) : linux

• Pydroid -- A Simple Toolkit for Automating Tasks, Especially Those Involving a GUI (w/VID). : programming

• sparse - semantic c parser actively used on linux kernel to e.g. prevent dereferce of userspace pointers

• http://minormatter.com/zcov/ "zcov is wrapper around the basic facilities of gcov for generating pretty summaries for entire code bases. It is similar to lcov with an emphasis on nicer HTML output (including, for example, branch coverage), and a greatly simplified command line interface which tries to work around deficiencies in the metadata provided by gcov."

• "This tool lets you programatically (or manually) simulate [X window] keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc." -- xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input - semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel

Programming

• 'The unifdef utility selectively processes conditional C preprocessor #if and #ifdef directives.' - unifdef - selectively remove C preprocessor conditionals

• 'elfrc is a program which can turn arbitrary files into ELF object files which can then be linked into your program directly and accessed via simple, user-defined symbol names.' - elfrc - a resource compiler for ELF systems

• ragel

  • 'Generate efficient source code from UML state diagrams!' - C/C++/Java/C#/Ada/Objective-C Code Generation from UML State Diagrams

  • State charts can provide you with software quality insurance

  • antlr

• Home - gremlin - GitHub a language to query graphs. via reddit. exports yed-friendly graphml?

RSS

• AK's website - newsbeuter

• Raggle: News last dev in '03 as of 2008-05-21

Web browser / LAMP / Web applications

• "Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more." - Bootstrap, from Twitter

  • Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers

    • initializr.com

• 'It's a full javascript online pdf reader. No flash, no closed sources' - dare-dare

• cryptocat - web chat app with clientside encryption. Still in beta, but starting to promote it more widely. : netsec

• Hacker News - Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL

• Visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser! Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads. : programming

• '[put] your C/C++ code online [via LLVM bytecode->JS] without changing anything' - Emscripten 1.0 Out! Native JS rendering of PDF's with cross compiled Poppler and Freetype : programming

• Free Text Host - The Anonymous Text Hosting Service - No Registration Required

• Save paper & ink printing only what you want « PrintWhatYouLike.com

• 'The highcharts library depends on the document object, therefore I need envjs [a 'headless browser'].' - rhino + envjs into a java application that uses highcharts - Env.js - Google Groups

• JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

  • Create a new Fiddle - jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)

• Virtual Keyboard (Debugger.ru)

  • on-screen keyboard

  • Atanas Roussev – Senior Java Developer, UI Engineer, Web, iPhone, PlayBook Developer – Vancouver » Blog Archive » More GWT touch-screen fun – a Software Keyboard

  • Google Virtual Keyboard API - Google Code

  • JavaScript Graphical / Virtual Keyboard Interface

• 'PageKite is a system for running web-servers on machines without a direct connection to the Internet, such as mobile devices or computers behind restrictive firewalls. It creates a tunnel between your web server and a pageKite front-end, manages dynamic DNS updates and generally does all the heavy lifting required to make your website visible to the wider Internet.' - pageKite.net - PageKite downloads and resources

  • Showoff

    • The easiest way to share localhost over the web.

• 'There are several tools specialized in website capture: CutyCapt, Ariya’s webcapture and KTHML2PNG' - KSnapshot gains free-region capture « elpauer

• Hacker News - Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites

• Draw on any webpage. Share your ideas. - MarkUp

• Photo editor online / free image editing direct in your browser - Pixlr.com

• 'Drawarea is an element which enables you and visitors of your site to make drawings.' - The HTML Drawarea project

  • svg-edit - Project Hosting on Google Code

• 'htty is a console application for interacting with HTTP servers. It’s something of a cross between curl and the Lynx browser.' - htty, the HTTP TTY

• 'FireBreath aims to be a cross-platform [browser NPAPI] plugin architecture' - firebreath - Project Hosting on Google Code

• EtherPad: Open-Sourced!

• Guacamole lets you control your desktop (VNC) via HTML5 enabled browser. SWEET! : programming

• Ajax phpmyadmin alternative? - Stack Overflow

  • sql buddy

• HYFBT: Have your friends been there?

  • Plugging the CSS History Leak : programming

• 'The client runs in any browser that supports the HTML 5 draft standard technologies— no Flash needed. No Silverlight, no applets, no plugins, no external players.' - Zeya: bring your music anywhere

• http://hurl.r09.railsrumble.com/ - debug http requests

  • via reddit

  • couldnt find a mirror as of 2010-10-18

• Page loading profiling tools - Wim Leers

• ChaCha (search engine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• PGP Digital Timestamping Service via The Dailydave February 2007 Archive by thread

  • Commitment scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0

• Dapper scraping for dummies?

• 'Screen Scraper Tricks: Extracting Data from Difficult Websites' - DEF CON® Hacking Conference - DEFCON 17 Media Archives

• Piggy Bank - SIMILE w/ scraper "solvent"

• Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader

• Aviary - Creation on the fly / tools

• [www@cb.vu]~> freebsd shell via browswer

• EricDaugherty.com - SSH Web Proxy

• Anyterm - Introduction

• MozRepl use telnet to access the firefox DOM

• AjaxTerm - QWeb - Trac terminal via ajax over ssl

  • http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

    • "Shell In A Box" tutorial : linux

X

• MouseJail for multiple monitors : linux

• 'Key Scripter listens to key press/release events from a keyboard or a mouse and allows generation of fake events.' - Key Scripter

• window list for gnome panel that displays only the icon : linux

• 'xchainkeys is a standalone X11 program to create chained key bindings similar to those found in the ratpoison window manager or the screen terminal multiplexer.' - xchainkeys - Project Hosting on Google Code

• marnanel - Entries tagged with work:collabora "per-window vnc"

• xpra – Parti – Trac like screen(1)?

• xannotate: Demo Scribbler

• xmove

• xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input - semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel

Version control/diff

• pepper - SCM statistics report generator

• 'DiffKit is [...] for comparing two tables of data, field-by-field.' - http://www.diffkit.org/

• '(a) editing past comments and metadata, (b) excising commits, (c) coalescing commits, (d) removing files and subtrees from repo history' - reposurgeon

  • ESR!

• 'the visualizations were created using Gource' - Perl's development history - Four minute animation showing the growth of the Perl ecosystem. Hypnotic, I wonder how other languages would compare. : programming

• 'DeltaWalker is an excellent file and folder compare and synchronization tool. We have tried Araxis Merge and Beyond Compare' - Tools_We_Use - smartgwt - Project Hosting on Google Code

• "VNChecker is a framework for Subversion pre-commit and post-commit hook scripts. " -- svnchecker.tigris.org

• [Grml] qdiff any chance? binary diffs?

• Tim’s Home Page » patchutils

  • 'mpatch applies diffs and is generally similar to patch, but it can also help resolve a number of common causes of patch rejects.' - Mpatch

• NautilusSvn

• Diffuse

• Meld : Home Page

• Subversion Repository Search Engine - Trac

  • meh. it's lucene. git does lots of this already.

• svn-time-lapse-view - Google Code

  • PiratenPad: condition-beige has "time slider" which would be nice for wikipedia/moin

Virtualization

• libguestfs, library for accessing and modifying VM disk images

• xen-tools.org - Xen Software: xen-tools

• the virtualization API

Office

• AccessPDF - Pdftk

Video

Requirements

• Can export to something that a flash player/community site accepts

• {4} Allows user to blur (or otherwise obscure) moving objects e.g. license plate

• Trim (i.e. remove first 20sec)

• {8} Rotate 90deg
• {7} Add titles
• {9} Time warp e.g. play 20% faster

• Add soundtrack

  • For freely-licensed audio see Flickr: Help: Video

Candidates

• openshot
  • prefer "frames per image" in "image seq import" dialog to adjusting speed of clip (which might truncate/bork clip)
  • {8} worx w/ fixed 90deg x rotation!

  • via clip properties. razor tool is for splitting

  • has presets for youtube

  • {9} yep, reverse too.
  • not {4} cause "pixellate" effect only has two props: x and y block size

  • Create Professional Videos on Linux with OpenShot - Linux.com

• blender

  • {9} "Speed Control Built-in Effect" -- Doc:Manual/Sequencer/Effects - BlenderWiki

  • GraphicAll.org - By Blenderheads for Blenderheads! builds

• "PiTiVi, a free and open source video editor based on the GStreamer multimedia framework" -- Main Page - PiTiViWiKi

  • actively developed as of 2009-07-25

  • pythons!

  • blending/compositing/transitions "planned" as of 2009-07-25. see Roadmap - PiTiViWiKi

• Home page - Kdenlive

  • {4} "Automask" -- Creative effects - Kdenlive

• Avidemux2

• Kino

  • 'I had a hard time figuring out why Kino couldn't encode using ffmpeg, and this fixes that problem.' - (ubuntu) [SOLVED] ffmpeg unknown encoder 'xvid' - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums

  • {9} FX -> Overwrite -> Advanced options -> speed

    • or when capturing, to drop frames use YouTube - Making a time lapse video in Linux

  • Linux.com - Kudos for Kino demo video at :43 shows "flag" which could work. overlay?

  • {8} "but you might not get the exact results you are looking for" -- Linux Digital Video ugly

  • see .- linux howtos ~ video editing -. for a link to a tutorial

  • "options "-vcodec h264" should actually be "-vcodec libx264"." -- #450404 - kino: Kino fails exporting H.264/FFMPEG - Debian Bug report logs

  • "FX/Audio Transition/Mix (It is a heavyweight procedure as it must generate a new DV file when you click Render). " -- Linux Digital Video

• OpenMovieEditor: Welcome to the Open Movie Editor!

• LiVES Video Editing System - Because the media should be open

Non-candidates

• 'the code create the timelines can be found at http://code.0x2620.org/oxtimeline' - Hacker News - Moviebarcode - Movies compressed to a single frame

• English, Videoporama

• Arista Transcoder - About

  • modern, has "presets" for popular devices

• Istanbul - GNOME Live!

• Gephex - video jockey software

• freshmeat.net: Project details for mkscreens.sh

• Video Contact Sheet *NIX

• Advene project annotate video

Database

• 'The output is designed to be diff-ed with previous versions of your database schema.' - SchemaCrawler - SchemaCrawler

• Maatkit

Graphics

• MyPaint

  • try w/ x61t stylus

• 'The idea of vfplot is to plot vector fields with relatively large arrows' - the vfplot program

• 'Here's the same model, only re-created using Kerkythea, after exporting the model using SketchUp Importer for Google SketchUp and rendered with photons and ray tracing and magic and whatnot.' - Medieval castle - Norman style

• '“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format. ' - famfamfam.com: Silk Icons

• Veusz - A Scientific Plotting Package

• Animator is a program that allows you to draw simple animated 2D vector graphics. [it] reads drawing commands from its STDIN. : coding

• Interactively build graphs with rrdtool : sysadmin

  • perl
  • couldnt find demos of creating

  • 'yaketystats' - Home - GitHub

    • 'Agreed, I was very disappointed that unlike drraw it requires you to store data and name rrd files according to their conventions. That is one of the terrific things about drraw - detatchment from the rrd creation process.' - (drraw-users) Cool Ajaxy RRD Display

  • 3+ python libs exist

    • FullWorkingExamples - pyrrd - Project Hosting on Google Code

• vkolev/ImgurUp - GitHub

• cortesi - Visualising Sorting Algorithms

  • "weave" demonstrated at cortesi - A journey through the bowels of proggit

• If San Francisco Crime were Elevation - Doug McCune

• NASA World Wind Java Demo Applications and Applets

  • 3d earth annotations

• 'It uses XMLRPC for cross-language and distributed graph support, OpenGL for rendering, and Pthreads for parallelism.' - Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software

  • 3D!

• Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software

  • http://gephi.org/jan25tmp.html

    • example of (canvas-based?) graph zoom and pan

• visualizing.org - MetaFilter web service?

• 'A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.' - Asymptote

• I have just discovered fotoxx, and I'm impressed. Startlingly capable lightweight photoeditor. : linux

  • alternative to f-spot?

• Orange - Data Mining Fruitful & Fun

• 'xdot.py is an interactive viewer for graphs written in Graphviz's dot language.' - XDot - jrfonseca - Interactive viewer for Graphviz dot files - Project Hosting on Google Code

• Graph Paper Printer - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com win32

• 'Multiedge Graph' - Sage - Tour - Graphics

• 'The Dynagraph engines draw graphs (networks, flowcharts) which change over time.' - dynagraph.org: Welcome

• Unlogic.se - OpenIcons

  • Toolbar Icons no preview?

• google has a nice vector diagram editor via gdocs->document.

  • can't get markup?

  • PlantUML

    • FLOSS java

  • Interactive Shell for Blockdiag

• Polymaps is an awesome new javascript mapping library from the guys of SimpleGeo. Check it out! : programming

• jfreechart

  • 'Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM. At the core of Incanter are the Parallel Colt numerics library, a multithreaded version of Colt, and the JFreeChart charting library, as well as several other Java and Clojure libraries.' - Home - incanter - GitHub

    • See also RKWward

• Gliffy Examples flowcharts, floorplans, etc

  • $5/mo or 5-diagram limit, watermark

• Gallery — NetworkX v1.2 documentation

• OpenHeatMap Gallery web-based

• Periodic table of the open source graphics and design apps : linux

• Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage free for non-commercial use

  • nice pop-up pie chart tool-tips

  • "combo" (e.g. bar & pie) charts

• 'SUMMON is a python extension module that provides rapid prototyping of 2D visualizations.' - SUMMON: visualization prototyping and scripting - Matt Rasmussen

• A Tour through the Visualizations Zoo : programming flare demos

  • 'The flare assistance pool flap is meant to supplement the sourceforge based prefuse flare forum ' - Forums - flap

• - A very interesting FAQ on visualization... more of a collection of wisdom really : programming

• New Mayavi release - the scientific data visualization and 3D plotting tool in Python. : Python

• gdv

  • '2.8 Inputting and Outputting Arrays' - Blitz++: Arrays

  • ineffective ltrace mod on humid/src

• Any decent tool for flowcharts? : programming

• "The idea is to parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and output an image." -- aafigure README

• hdrandpythonpil (bpowah) high dynamic range w/ custom canon firmware and python

• Pycairo

• JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web

  • Hi Proggit, I just released the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0, a web standard based toolkit to create data visualizations. I'd love to know what you think! : programming

• http://www.taranfx.com/blog/photosketch-draw-sketch-get-real-images-awesome

  • http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/how-to-find-copies-or-modified-versions-of-your-photos-online-e-g-using-tineye

• kivio as alternative to dia

• Schadenfreude » Creating Beautiful Panoramas Easily in Linux

• Protovis is a (gorgeous) visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. : programming

• "animplot is a simple visualization tool. it is similar to xplot, but allows realtime manipulation of the drawing surface." -- cvoid - big giant television

• RT Graph 3D

• Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel (web service)

• Xfig Drawing Program for the X Windows System

• JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework

• springgraph

• Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting (plots, graphs, charts) this is probably what was used to generate the nice 3D plots in the ButterScotch audio fingerprinting web page

• http://www.aisee.com

  • free for non-commercial use

• "Its primary goal is to graph data in order to be able to quickly analyze problems and find correlations among variables." -- Picviz - Trac

• "IIPimage is a client/server system for viewing and navigating within extremely high resolution remote images." -- freshmeat.net: Project details for IIPImage

• seq. diagrams

  • http://yuml.me - Create UML diagrams online in seconds, no special tools needed.

  • Web-Based UML Sequence Diagram / MSC Generator

    • 'After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams' - A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor - Dev102.com

  • MscGen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia message sequence diagrams

• XML/SWF Charts > Introduction

• 20 Useful Visualization Libraries

• Enterprise Business Intelligence & Analytics Applications - TIBCO Spotfire

• Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » potrace: Transform bitmap images into vector graphics

  • 'Click on Path > Trace Bitmap.' - Howto: Vectorize images in Inkscape « Motho ke motho ka botho

  • * Awesome new algorithm for depixelizing pixelart : programming

• FehFeatures - feh - Trac

  • Viewer. Load from HTTP, slideshow, collage, etc
• Inkscape - vector gfx

  • or Create Flowchart, Org Chart and Network Diagram Easily with Edraw Software, Free Download recommended by rslinct

  • Attachment – Mamona nice flowchart

Color pickers/themes/palettes

• "Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color" - http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/

• 'Find a good color scheme' - 10 Tips For Creating Good Looking Diagrams Using Inkscape

  • famfamfam.com icons

• "this page provides online generation of full and sample palettes for color schemes, such as monochromatic and double-complementary." -- coloryze

Visualization in general

• Puppy Games - Revenge of the Titans

• PlayDeb.net Beta - Welcome

• playstation on ubuntu 10.10 maverick
  • installed deb from pcsx site

  • extracted bios from EmuAsylum - Emulators to ~/.pcsx/bios

  • 'Jet Moto had the same menu problems as when running it with ePSXe, although the gameplay was quite smooth, beautiful graphics and everything. Very nice, if it were not missing the music and the menu's worked correctly. Full FPS.' - Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - AMD64 Repository with 32-bit programs now open!

  • wj install ecm && unecm my_game.img.ecm

• 19 Awesome Open source games for Linux : linux

• skifree

  • Resource page for ski 6.6

• Hedgewars worms

• 'There’s also DroidQuest which is a Java-based clone of Robot Odyssey' - A Binary Patch for Robot Odyssey » Micah's Bloggy Widget lots more posts in same category

• Osmos now available for Linux! : linux

• world of goo

• Secret Maryo Chronicles - Media / Screenshots

• epsxe

  • if padsp is skippy, try psx plugin from debian ePSXe OSS problem. - Ubuntu Forums

    • Debian -- Filelist of package psemu-sound-alsa/etch/amd64

  • 'Updated: Dec 28 2009 by weimingzhi' - PCSX-Reloaded - Release: Beta 1 (1.9.91)

    • wj install libxv-dev

    • sound worx nice out of the box

    • 'currently the XVideo plugin will add many useless stuff in the screenshots taken with the F8 key. This patch will make the screenshots only contain the actual contents on the screen' - SourceForge.net: PCSX-df: Detail: 2135451 - screenshot function in XVideo plugin

    • first play was ok (too fast tho) and second, etc had blue screens. blue screens caused by "show fps" option?!

  • 'the packages uses OSS sound output. Try "padsp pcsx".' - The Linux Game Tome: PCSX Reloaded

  • wine on jaunty 64bit looks appealing: WineHQ - ePSXe 1.7.0

  • 'Saves from the GameFAQs: The saves from GameFAQs are in the dexdrive format (.gme), ePSXe can read those files, just select it as a memorycard.' - ePSXe configuration guide (Linux) - Emuforums.com

  • snes9x-gtk killed x

  • tried cdemu for bin/cue rips How to install cdemu.. - Ubuntu Forums

  • used panda bear's script which installs to ~/
  • used getlibs to grab 32bit sdl(?) libs

    • http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8052394&postcount=310

  • symlinked libspu and libgpu
  • GTK_MODULES= ~/epsxe/epsxe
• x-moto

  • ./configure --with-unoptimized=1 --prefix=/home/tz/src/xmoto-0.5.2

  • make

  • make install

  • xmoto-0.5.2$ src/xmoto

  • apply patch from Gentoo Bug 284464 - games-sports/xmoto-0.5.2 fails to build

• REminiscence - Rewritten engine for Flashback

  • Hardcore Gaming 101: Flashback: The Quest for Identity

  • Flashback (E) Rom Download for Nintendo SNES at ROMNation.NET

  • Flashback: The Quest for Identity - DOS Games lists the contents of a few warez releases

  • http://rapidshare.com/files/83555702/Flashback_The_Quest_for_Identity__1993__Delphine_Software_International__Rev1_.zip

  • http://warez-share.blogspot.com/2009/09/flashback-quest-for-identity.html 80mb

    • /home/tz/warez_tu/fbcd/Data$ rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

    • strace ./rs --datapath=/home/tz/warez_tu/fbcd/data

  • http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Flashback

    • lha x Flashback.lha

    • mv Flashback/* fbcd/data

  • "ERROR: Bad CRC for collision data!"
  • "Following the initial success of the 1992 release, in 1995 Delphine has released an enchanced CD version featuring new cinematics with better music and digitized speech."
  • ERROR: Bad CRC for collision data!

• Carrier Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via lothar's blog

• netstorm - via pauldotcom ~170

• polishlinux.org » Hedgewars - The Worms redesigned

• kahvipapu - Linux gaming, part two: strategy games

• Category:Linux — StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

• Bos Wars

  • keep an eye on your resources! build power plants early in the game.
  • "cross" map is challenging vs ai w/ "high" resources
  • the lone, shining rocks contain magma
  • the small "fields" of stones contain magma
  • are "thin" patches of ore worse than "thick"?
    • yes, they produce less magma than the "thick" ones
  • why do some engineers have status bars?
    • all units, when severely damaged, have status bars
  • what does the flashing flashing red light on a vault mean?
    • probably that an engineer is being trained in the vault
  • what happens when you harvest a building?
    • the building is destroyed and you receive some number of resources in return
    • this is handy if you've "trapped" a unit by surrounding him with buildings

  • "Dont hesitate to contact me or debian-devel-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you have any question regarding Bos Wars and Debian. " -- Re: [bos-dev] Bos Wars 2.5

• IncrediBots - Online Robot Physics Game!

• Imperfect World Of Robots -- Home Page

• "games_for_engineers" -- Zachtronics Industries - Search

• red alert on windows 98 qemu guest
  • d/l'd demonoid vmware img

  • Free and full Red Alert in Windows Vista (and in VMware)

  • COMMAND & CONQUER RED ALERT 3

  • How to Play Red Alert 1 Online - STRIKE TEAM - XWIS - OFFICIAL C&C SERVER IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EA

  • "Here are some patches which improve winsock's ipx support. Using these patches games C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert (v3.x) and Red Alert II work over a lan. " -- Wine HQ - WWN Issue #195

  • "it may work with tun/tap networking method. definitely a no go with user mode networking." -- qemu - 22Aug2006 - Page 1

• Hamachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Numpty Physics

• galcon

  • "libpython2.4.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file" or "zipimport.ZipImportError: can't find module 'cx_Freeze__init__'"? install python2.4 package

• QJoyPad

• civilization

  • "I just started and played a bit today Age of Empire II Conqueror expansion with the cedega 4.4.3, and it worked damn well, like under Windows (I had long time before)." -- Age Of Empires for linux - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums

• second life http://secondlife.com/community/linux-alpha.php

• True Combat Elite is a pretty decent conversion of Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

• DEFCON by Darwinia dudes http://www.everybody-dies.com/ (linux ~nov)

• http://netpanzer.berlios.de/download.html (unstable?)

• http://www.glest.org/board2/viewtopic.php?t=1204

  • #528181 - glest: Tutorial is disabled - Debian Bug report logs

  • 'Cross-platform network play is now a reality' - Slashdot Games Story - FOSS RTS Game Glest Gets Revival — Enter Mega-Glest

• http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/games.shtml

• cedega for hl2 $15/3mos http://transgaming.org/subscription/subscribe.html

• Scorched 3D - A 3D Remake Of Scorched Earth

  • libalut0
  • Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 724 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `object != NULL' failed.
    • zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so scorched3d

• freshmeat.net Games/Entertainment

Spring

% spring --version
Spring 0.79.0.1
% wjv spring      
Version: 0.78.1.1-0ubuntu1~9.04~ppa1

1. Grabbed Balanced Annhilation (BA) mod from forum link at Balanced Annihilation - Spring

   • "Thanks for the help. I didn't realise they were cross-platform" -- TA Spring Ubuntu Package for BA - Ubuntu Forums

2. grabbed RAI from Linux additional AIs pack for spring 0.78.1

3. "It is simple to compile using instructions from http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Building_Spring_on_Linux " -- The Spring Project • View topic - RAI v0.601

4. no decent AI vs human scenarios The Spring Project • View topic - Best mod for TA-style skirmish play vs AI?

5. no linux+win play? "afaik"
   • TA Spring works 100% with wine right out of the box \/

   • float w/ win&linux problem http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=184543&page=2

Homeworld 2

• looks like the patch requires a recent wine: "Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.20" -- WineHQ Bugzilla – Bug 15764 – Homeworld 2 Patch (homeworld2_update_en_10_11.exe) to v1.1: crash during setup

• "Simple Answer: HW2 doesn't work with WINE" -- RelicNews Forums - Homeworld 2 + Linux

  • "HW2 has been made to work with Wine, however this required a hacky patch to Wine's SecureROM driver emulation to support HW2's particular version of SecureROM. I believe there is a link to the patch on the HW2 info page in the wine application database. Youll need to compile Wine for yourself with the patch applied." -- RelicNews Forums - Homeworld 2 + Linux

• "Wine is surprisingly good (I play Homeworld 2 on it" -- Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex hits Beta

Playing on Wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

1. Download the Homeworld 2 v1.0 installation CD ISO image from Penfish at Demonoid.com (830MB)

2. Mount the included ISO

   1. # sudo modprobe loop

   2. mkdir /tmp/foo

   3. # sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop Homeworld\ 2.ISO.iso /tmp/foo

3. Install Wine 1.1.21 from WineHQ .deb packages archive (8MB)

4. Begin the installation: wine /tmp/fooz/HW2_Setup.exe

5. Enter your CD key (or the one from "Installation Instructions.doc" in Penfish's torrent, as Bob did)
6. Choose "yes" when the installer offers to install the DivX 5.0.5 codec. Choose "no" to "register electronically". Choose "yes" to "Install DirectX?"

7. Install the cracked EXE: cp CRACK/Crack\ v1.0/Homeworld2.exe ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Sierra/Homeworld2/Bin/Release/Homeworld2.exe

8. Download the Homeworld 2 v1.1 [ENGLISH] Fixed EXE" crack via HTTP from GameCopyWorld (1.4MB)

9. Download the Official v1.1 patch via BitTorrent from gameupdates.org (26.MB)

AOE2: AOK

Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings

Quake 2

• Quake2 engine day - Believe it or not Quake2 is alive and kicking... and its engine is featuring some of the very best open-source games! : linux

• Linux Quake HOWTO

• get full game's cd image in bin/cue format
• sudo apt get install bchunk
• bchunk Quake2.bin Quake2.cue Quake2.iso
• mount iso w/ loop

• copy contents of iso's Install/Data dir to /media/video_etc_660gig/audio_etc_370gig/games/q2dataz

• sudo apt-get install libglib1.2-dev for "/bin/sh: glib-config: not found"

• sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev for "src/unix/gl_glx.c:60:38: error: X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h: No such file or directory"

• sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev for "src/unix/snd_alsa.c:25:28: error: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory"

• make \
      DATADIR=/media/video_etc_660gig/audio_etc_370gig/games/q2dataz \
      LIBDIR=/home/tz/src/qudos/trunk/quake2 \
      LOCALBASE=/usr \
      BUILD_GLX=YES \
      BUILD_OSS_SND=YES \
      BUILD_QUAKE2=YES \
      BUILD_GAME=YES \
      WITH_DATADIR=YES \
      WITH_LIBDIR=YES \
      WITH_XMMS=NO WITH_AUDACIOUS=NO

• cp trunk/data/qudos.pk3 /media/video_etc_660gig/audio_etc_370gig/games/q2dataz/Data/baseq2 resolves "Can't find pic: /gfx/mouse_cursor.pcx"

Options menu segfault

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 28418]
#0  0xb68499f0 in ?? () from /home/tz/src/qudos/trunk/quake2/ref_q2sdlgl.so
(gdb) bt full
#0  0xb68499f0 in ?? () from /home/tz/src/qudos/trunk/quake2/ref_q2sdlgl.so
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x080e9521 in Options_MenuDraw ()
No locals.
#2  0x080e53d5 in M_Draw ()
No locals.
#3  0x080be45f in SCR_UpdateScreen ()
No locals.
#4  0x080afbba in CL_Frame ()
No locals.
#5  0x080584bd in Qcommon_Frame ()
No locals.
#6  0x0807db14 in main ()
No locals.

• If killing multiple instances of QuDos maxes your X gamma, use xgamma -gamma 1.136. Solves "Minor opcode of failed request: 15 (XF86VidModeSetGamma)"

• "When I do this it always says "no recognizable debug information." But the source paths and debug information and source statements can be seen in the file with objdump -Sx <exe file>" -- geneSmith - Re: Can't find source files

Reference

• breb's PKGBUILD

• "For sound, QuDos supports ALSA, OSS and SDL." -- [SOLVED] Quake2 (QuDos) sound issues and more - Ubuntu Forums

Laptop

• Nico Golde's website - yacpi - yet another configuration and power interface

Funs

• freshmeat.net: Project details for libcaca graphics->ascii text

Network

• wansim - WANsim allows you to emulate a WAN connection - Google Project Hosting

• 'Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.' - apenwarr/sshuttle - GitHub

• 'tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet.' - tinc wiki

• 'BEEP (http://www.beepcore.org) is a powerful network application protocol definition that allows to design the best solution for your data exchange needs.' - jsVortex: javascript BEEP implementation, javascript RFC3080 implementation, Open source javascript BEEP

• mitmproxy - an SSL-capable intercepting proxy : netsec

• 'The spinning cube listens to a pcap interface or stdin, extracts new connections, and graphs them onto a cube. ' - The GPL Cube of Potential Doom

  • dragorn!

• CLI utility to download and upload files from Megaupload, Rapidshare : linux

• 'catnip is a tiny non-libpcap based network packet capturing tool (currently only for Linux) which when compiled and stripped the binary is smaller than 20kiB. ' - catnip - diGriz's Chunk of Web

• ssl/ssh multiplexer

• bwmon: Application-level bandwidth monitoring (thpinfo.com)

  • bandwidth monitoring bwm-ng bmon http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/24/2033234&tid=89

  • nethogs

  • 'Captures network traffic, calculates statistics about usage, and serves reports over HTTP.' - darkstat

  • 'nload is a console application which monitors network traffic' - www.roland-riegel.de - nload: monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage

• IPTraf Screen Shots

• ' powerful perl application designed to retrieve files from download services (like RapidShare, MegaUpload and many more). ' - rsget.pl: screenshots

  • installing on scrub

    • wj install perl-base libwww-curl-perl liburi-perl libgd-gd2-perl tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng libterm-size-perl perlmagick libcrypt-blowfish-perl libcrypt-rijndael-perl

  • 'rsget-mod is a Bash script for downloading files from Rapidshare.com' - code.google.com/p/rsget-mod

• blueman - share internet connection via bluetooth

• "DeleGate mediates communication of various protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, Telnet, SOCKS, DNS, etc.), applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients and routing toward servers. It translates protocols between clients and servers, applying SSL(TLS) to arbitrary protocols, converting between IPv4 and IPv6, merging several servers into a single server view with aliasing and filtering." - http://www.delegate.org/delegate/

• wicd - no gnome deps (openbox!)

• Python ipqueue

• "Droopy is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer." -- freshmeat.net: Project details for Droopy

• ctunnel - tunnel any TCP connection in a cryptographic tunnel

• Slashdot - Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux?

• lftp

• nettee home page, created Apr 28, 2005, at 15:03

• download accelerators /home/shakir

  • axel (buggy?)
  • prozila
  • d4x

  • aria2c

  • Steadyflow in Launchpad gtk

• freshmeat.net: Project details for Active port forwarder fwd a port w/o ssh. uses ssl.

• /home/drear daemonlogger

Logging/log monitoring and alerts

• 'logtop displays real-time count of strings recieved in standard input.' - JulienPalard/logtop at master - GitHub

• 'glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files.' - glogg — glogg - the fast, smart log explorer

• i-scream pystatgrab homepage

• Main Page - Mon Wiki

• SourceForge.net: lm-monitor

• DAG: Dstat: Versatile resource statistics tool

• Colored printk Output - KernelTrap

• Software-Downloads

• root-tail - Displays select log files in the X root window

• Nuhe action capable security monitor rules-based

• MultiTail more on this page

• freshmeat.net: Project details for trowser

• glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization

  • "apachepong"

  • logstalgia - Project Hosting on Google Code

• emlog -- the EMbedded-system LOG-device

Colorizers/Syntax Highlighters/Formatting

• colorize, python code to colorize the output (and error output) of command-line programs, with samples for standard GNU/Linux programs. : programming

• debaday - ccze

• supercat - easy rule syntax

• SyntaxHighlighter - Alex Gorbatchev via YUI docs

• Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » ccze: A robust, modular log coloriser

  • links to lwatch, loganalysis.org, and loco

• www.flinkmann.de

• Ansifilter documentation

  • http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi2html.sh

• colorgcc and colorsvn

  • Pretty Make

  • freshmeat.net: Project details for Logapp

  • freshmeat.net: Project details for color wrapper

• Debian Administration - Highlighting strings in text output with histring

• highlight source colorizer http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/download.html (in deb unstable)

Release engineering tools/resources

• 'Project-Builder.org is a GPL tool to help you build packages of projects for multiple operating systems from repostitories or files' - Project-Builder.org - GPL packages and project builder for multiple operating systems

• 'slackeria takes a list of projects and checks whether they are present in certain places, such as Freshmeat or various distros. ' - App::Slackeria v0.1

• 'The 10 Commandments of Release Engineering [vid/slides]' - LISA '10 Technical Sessions

• 'It automates the tedious process of shipping a software release, can deliver releases in correct form to SourceForge or Berlios, and knows how to post a release announcement to freshmeat.net via freshmeat-submit.' - Resource page for shipper 0.13

• Zero Install: 0release

• Yet another (command-line) bug tracker : programming

• 'repost is a script to perform simple tasks on your repositories at once.' - Home - repos-tools - GitHub

• pybdist - Project Hosting on Google Code

• 'poachplate by Matt Harrison' - Blogger: Concision and Concinnity - Post a Comment

• Description of Multiple Projects Workflow

• 'You will need Plan 9 from User Space (mostly for the rc shell).' - Releaser

• "moap is a swiss army knife for project maintainers and developers" -- MOAP - Maintenance of a project

  • in jaunty
  • no hg support
• figlet for ascii gfx!

  • wajig listfiles figlet | grep flf | xargs -t -I\{\} figlet -f \{\} foo BAR 123

  • figlet and asciimo and a little irony « Motho ke motho ka botho

• "tagging revisions, making tarballs, uploading to ftp/website, and so on"

• Python uses distutils etc

• Software Release Practice HOWTO Unmaintained since '02. Section 7 of revision 3.4 is helpful re: README file.

Systems/Sysadmin/System Administration

• 'The Linux kernel has recently implemented a very useful [system-wide] perf infrastructure for profiling various CPU and software events.' - Linux Profiling tools and techniques

• 'Augeas - a configuration API' - Augeas — Main

  • py api
  • cli

• 'ssterm, or simple serial-port terminal, is a console-based serial port terminal with curses and stdin/stdout user interfaces.' - software_projects:ssterm (vsdev)

  • hex view

• 'Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal.' - Made of Bugs » reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

• ClusterShell

  • python distributed shell

• 'UpStare is a dynamic software updating system (compiler, runtime, patch-generator) for multi-threaded userspace applications. ' - UpStare - mkgnu.net

• Worth repeating: nethogs « Motho ke motho ka botho

  • CLI per-process network usage monitoring

• The Case for PerfKit < Came for the beer, stayed for the Freedom

  • cpu/mem/etc perf graphing in realtime

• txt-sushi: The SQL link in your *NIX chain

  • query your csv with this haskell tool

  • Tablib: Format agnostic tabular data library (XLS, JSON, YAML, CSV) : Python

• 'It can be useful if you need to process a large file, but you don't have enough space to store the output file and you wouldn't need the input file afterwards.' - hungrycat — Jakub Wilk's software

• PartEd Magic livecd w/ lotsa disk tools

• 'peekfd, prtstat' - I hadn't known some commands until today. - linuxとかテストとか

  • "peekfd attaches to a running process and intercepts all reads and writes to file descriptors. "

    • see fspy at Switching to Python

  • prtstat prints ESP and EIP

• 'downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.' - /downtimed/

• 'buildd was not made for what I wanted to do. The database is ugly, it's old tech and it's Perl.' - Julien Danjou homepage - rebuildd

• GNU Parallel - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

• 'cdu (for Color du) is a perl script which call du and display a pretty histogram with optional colors' - cdu Home Page

  • alternative: ncdu in repos

• "It [mails logs to sysadmins] after first filtering out [...] entries which match one of the many included regular expression files contain in the database." - logcheck

• devscripts

  • annotate-output - hilite+timestamp stdout/stderr

• slurm – Realtime (Curses) network interface monitor - Ubuntu Geek

• "ftrace — trace system calls, function calls and signals" - ftrace(1)

• "hijack.c - Force a process to load a library. " -- More programs

• ncdu(1) - curses alternative to baobab(1)

  • fsv - Screen shots

    • jurassic park 3d!

• USB/IP Project

  • use this with hw virt for usb driver fault tolerance?
    • contrast w/ kexec
    • temporal roll-back?

• "Macfly is a tool allowing to run one or more programs with a shifted clock compared to system clock." -- Macfly - INL software - Trac

  • nice example of writing a LD_PRELOAD "launcher" in c

    • http://software.inl.fr/trac/browser/mirror/tools/macfly/trunk/macfly/macfly.c

• SYSSTAT

• lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » OProfile: Profiling in Linux for Fun and Profit

• Smart Software: Omniscient Debugging chronicle

• svgatextmode - not many google hits

• About OProfile

• msort - sort(1) on steroids

• coreboot - "open" bios

• "The main strength of lfhex is it's ability to work with files much larger than system memory" -- lfhex - (Large File Hex Editor)

• pv/pipeviewer

  • "Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?" « lamby strace+awk!

  • Command Line Progress Bar

  • for some more pipe badassery see vipe in moreutils (below)

  • dcfldd

  • Speedometer 2.6 - excess.org Measure and display the rate of data across a network connection or data being stored in a file.

  • Theiling Online: ASCII bar "cat w/ progress bar" in pure sh

• moreutils

  • bitly's data_hacks: Command-line data hacking tools : programming many are duplicates of existing tools e.g. timelimit (for limiting number of seconds consumed by process - which i couldnt get to work)

  • 'Maybe the problem isn't that no-one is writing them, or that the unix toolspace is covered except for specialised tools, but that the most basic tools fall through the cracks and are never noticed by people who could benefit from them.' - moreutils

• bbe

• Iotop's homepage

  • iogrind - GNOME Live!

• Sysprof - A System-wide Linux Profiler "Linux kernel 2.6.11 or later, compiled with profiling support."

• daemonizer - Trac

• systrace - monitor/restrict system calls via library interposition

• iotop, getenv show live io usage, get environment queries w/ slick lib interposition

• inotify cron

  • "Check out the "keep" perl script here, it uses both inotify and strace to re-run a given command whenever a file it uses has been changed. There's also inotifywatch, inotifywait and iwatch." -- mackstann comments on Inotify

• ELF STATIFIER MAIN PAGE Statifier create from dynamically linked executables and all it's libraries one file.

  • netbsd's crunchgen might be similar

• jumpstart - run with shared libraries already loaded

• google-coredumper - Google Code

• BVI - Binary VIsual editor w/ links to other hex editors

• radare - advanced commandline hexadecimal editor

• The DynamoRIO Collaboration "DynamoRIO is a runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes. "

  • Pin - A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tool belongs on security page?

    • Binary Analysis Platform: Security Analysis of Executable Code

    • tartetatintools - Project Hosting on Google Code

• Wajig Overview wajig, a python debian sysadmin tool

  • dirk maintains it for deb http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-64876

• Qps - Visual Process Manager

Launchers

• Mishoo CLI-like Interface to Run Programs

• jopen - Google Code firefox and the shell can use this to DTRT with files based on bash expressions

Chat

• thekonst.net - program information - centericq

• Unfortunately, we cannot help with centericq anymore, since it's out of development (dead)

  • Main Page - CenterIM

Security

See Computer Security.

Backup/Sync

• See Backup and Restore Plan

• SourceForge.net: DiscSpan

• Unison File Synchronizer

Untried

• gdmap

• delta.tigris.org bisect for interestingness. not in fiesty repo.

  • Homepage of N. BENOIT - Maniac

• rsstail CLI rss reader

• Xkbd - onscreen soft keyboard for X11

• kibitz - share shell with other users

• Happy Camel, match your GPS with your digital photographs

• About recordMyDesktop

• GCstar, personal collections manager

• Xvfb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "As an example, the following sequence of commands runs the virtual framebuffer as display ":1", run a program on it, and capture the virtual screen in the file image.xwd:"

• Enemies of Carlotta ML mgr

• cstream - a general-purpose streaming tool

  • gnome-vfs

  • gvfsfind http://freshmeat.net/redir/fvfsfind/70278/url_homepage/gvfsfind

• bench time your prog in usec

• gotmor - dzen txt-based notifier

• gimmie gnome panel

• Linux.com

• folding @ gnome

• google earth
• eterm

  • w/ screen Download Area

• CryoPID - A Process Freezer for Linux

  • `wj install linux-source zlib1g-dev

  • 'Upstream is dead' - #507882 - RM: cryopid -- RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream - Debian Bug report logs

  • builds w/ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=17;filename=patch;att=1;bug=479902 applied in src/ via patch -p2

  • xpra – Parti – Trac

• kernel-based memory checkpoint/restart [LWN.net]

• imgseek - python. draw a sketch to search for it.

• HOWTO: View NFO files - Ubuntu Forums

• grsecurity
• biew

• http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart2.html

• Your Top Ten Packages To Install

• came with zd1211 driver src

• mpgtx mpeg toolbox http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=603460&postcount=13

• Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

• Gnome 6.06 - HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions

• xfce goodies http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/packages.php

• galternatives

• hdparm http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance

• DARE "recycle bin" http://project.terminus.sk/dare/

  • Think what happens if you type "rm -rf / usr/share/foo" instead of "rm -rf /usr/share/foo" as root...

  • http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html#undelete

    • and by "grep" he means "grep the _entire_ device" http://recover.sourceforge.net/unix/

  • gET iT i sAY, giis - ext3 File Undelete Tool

  • http://www.tux.org/lkml how to apply patches

• most pager http://debaday.livejournal.com/24084.html

• python-gnucash — ParIT

• cashutil - gnucash CLI http://cashutil.sourceforge.net/

  • view uncleared checks
  • enter register item

  • i have GnuCash 1.8.10

• Filelight or another graphical disk hog utility http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/17/153239

• fail2ban brute force login protection http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/342 http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Defending_Against_Brute_Force_SSH_Attacks

• Xdialog http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/89#comment_10

  • 'CCFE is a simple tool to quickly supply an interactive screen-oriented interface to command line scripts and commands' - CCFE - the Curses Command Front-end

  • http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2807

  • EveryGUI - a GUI for every CLI app, also check the screenshots : linux

  • freshmeat.net: Project details for Zenity

• symlinks 8

• brightside cornerizer http://catmur.co.uk/~ed/main/brightside/ (no apt?)

• http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Background_Terminal

• gkrellm gtk system monitors http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html or 9pgs on lm_sensors http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

• move asdf's from tree, preserving tree http://shellscripts.org/wiki/mvpartial

• passive notif app libnotify and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/notification-daemon http://www.galago-project.org/news/index.php http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/407

• ../../Switching to Linux/Software to Try/Emacs

fuse

• two methods of accessing camera as fs http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~lester/gphoto2-fuse-fs/

  • ftp

    • CurlFtpFS - A FTP filesystem based in cURL and FUSE current. reqs newer-than-dapper libcurl

    • Fuseftp - ThiesenWiki perly

• John Madden » SvnFs

  • svn cat http://bla/foo.c

Tried

• htop
• pmap

• leaftag http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Leaftag

  • http://idea.zanestate.edu/archives/2006/09/adding-metadata-keywords-or-tags-to-files-with-leaftag-in-ubuntu-linux/

• smartmontools
• zsh
• pinfo info viewer (fixes pxref in wget manual?)

  • discussion

• amarok media player
  • kubuntu repo latest req's libvisual:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  • amarok: Depends: libvisual-0.4-0 (>= 0.4.0) but it is not installable

  E: Broken packages

  • wget and dpkg -i http://www.kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-142/pool-dapper/libvisual-0.4-0_0.4.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

  • filename format? why not in cache? add to Amarok - Community Ubuntu Documentation ?

  • ratings with winkey /dev/bram: amaroK 1.4 - Rate your songs

• devil's pie window matcher http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/335

  • Xlife » Using the new Devil’s Pie s-expression configuration

• conky lightweight system monitor http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Howto: Get a beautiful Conky 1.4.2 setup

• ddclient for dyndns. deb pkg? http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/

  • prefer http://nulldigital.net/code.php?dyndns.py

• libtrash "recycle bin" http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/libtrash/ has dapper pkg Safely delete Linux files with libtrash

  • An implementation of the FreeDesktop trashcan in bash : linux

  • .xinitrc/.xsession

  • trash-cli - Project Hosting on Google Code

• /GNU Screen

• do chords with two hands. wow. http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/3/9/16838/14935/26#26

checkinstall

• Zero Install: Overview

• use --fstrans=no Re: cannot set time stamps for

Gripes

• it'd be nice to be able to specify multiple targets. this'd obviate the need for e.g. this patch to bitlbee's Makefile:

--- Makefile.orig       2008-01-05 23:43:37.000000000 -0500
+++ Makefile    2008-01-05 23:44:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 all: $(OUTFILE)
        $(MAKE) -C doc

-uninstall: uninstall-bin uninstall-doc
+uninstall: uninstall-bin uninstall-doc uninstall-etc
        @echo -e '\nmake uninstall does not remove files in '$(DESTDIR)$(ETCDIR)', you can use make uninstall-etc to do that.\n'

-install: install-bin install-doc
+install: install-bin install-doc install-etc
        @if ! [ -d $(DESTDIR)$(CONFIG) ]; then echo -e '\nThe configuration directory $(DESTDIR)$(CONFIG) does not exist yet, don'\''t forget to create it!'; fi
        @if ! [ -e $(DESTDIR)$(ETCDIR)/bitlbee.conf ]; then echo -e '\nNo files are installed in '$(DESTDIR)$(ETCDIR)' by make install. Run make install-etc to do that.'; fi
        @echo
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@

 install-bin:
        mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
-       install -m 0755 $(OUTFILE) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(OUTFILE)
+       install -m 0755 $(OUTFILE) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)$(OUTFILE)

 uninstall-bin:
        rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(OUTFILE)

sshfs

• fuse/sshfs http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/26/71-fuse-253-for-ubuntu-dapper/

• nautilus http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/#comment-1964

• mount_sshfs

• advantages
  • easy version control for scripts on my webserver!
  • using my local editor on remote files

Superb websites

• Main Page - Mono

  • website/mono-project.com/skins at master from mono's release - GitHub uses a wikipedia skin

• Home page - Kdenlive

Comparative software analysis

See also: Evaluating Diff Tools

• Linux Group Tests - Part 1 - Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site

• How to Visualize Disk Usage in Windows with Scanner

  • compares win32 apps, has link to linux-centric comparison

• Linux for Presentations

• Anyterm - Comparisons

• drop.io alternatives for Linux - AlternativeTo.net

• Beatiful Soup docs lists similar libraries

• Screenshot Gallery

• Harrys Windows Hex Editor Review

• Twee Editors

• http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/fenris/other.txt

• "users who installed foo also installed bar" stats via popcorn?

• Final Cut Pro - Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

  • The Linux Alternative Project - linuxalt.com

• dog bless the sw authors who include a "similar projects" page ala http://collectd.org/related.shtml and Picviz - Trac

• ostatic.com offers "alternatives"

• "Offtopic: The linux world is lacking comparative software analysis. There should be a site where different programms that do the same task are listed and compared. Ideal would be if every page could be maintained by a different person that is interested in the stuff, so it can keep up with the news. Do you know of such a site?" -- Sourcepole - Hex Editors

  • Agile Testing: The sad state of open source monitoring tools

Source of "new release" notices

• Debian Project News - 2011 Index

LOLz

• Theiling Online: Parrot Teacher