Home, 2010-02-04
- Lesser Known Interesting Programs for UNIX
- Mac stuff
- Emacs Stuff
- Just Stuff
- Firefox
- OpenACS uptime
Lesser Known Interesting Programs for
UNIX
- Aptconvert command-line tool that can be used to convert the APT
format to HTML, XHTML, PDF, PostScript, (MS Word loadable) RTF, DocBook SGML
and DocBook XML. The APT format (Almost Plain Text) is a simple markup
language (like HTML) than can be used to write simple article-like documents
(like HTML). Unlike HTML, APT uses as few markup as possible to express the
structure of the document. Instead, APT uses paragraph indentation (these
webpages are generated using Aptconvert).
[http://www.xmlmind.com/aptconvert.html]
- ccache ccache is a compiler cache. It acts as a caching
pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to
detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results in a
5 to 10 times speedup in common
compilations.[http://ccache.samba.org/]
- dbacl digramic Bayesian classifier easy to use Bayesian
filter
[http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/].
- dcfldd enhanced GNU dd, the killer feature for me is the progress
meter
[http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/].
- ddrescue GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from
one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to
rescue data in case of read errors.
[http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/].
- exiv2 Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage
image metadata.
[[http://www.exiv2.org]].
- gmemusage
- mimms download mms:// sources
[http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mimms/].
- most If less is more than more, most is more than less.
[http://www.jedsoft.org/most/]
- htop easier to read variant of top
[http://htop.sourceforge.net/].
- pho view and annotate multiple images
[http://www.shallowsky.com/software/pho/].
(I now mostly use gqview.)
- photorec cross platform file recovery program, great to recover
deleted photos from flash media
[http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec].
- QEmacs very small, very fast emacs-like editor. I use it for small
edits on less powerfull machines (vi-alternative for emacs-users). It supports
vertical splits
[http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemacs/].
I also use it instead of GNU Emacs on large log-filesm as GNU Emacs cannot
handle large files (for 21 it is 128MB on 32bit platforms).
- shfs a Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote
filesystems using a ssh
connection.[http://shfs.sourceforge.net/].
(I have now changed to the FUSE alternative sshfs
(http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html).)
- smartmontools disk health monitoring
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools
- Source-Navigator
http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/.
GUI for source code navigation, it is dated but still a very useful tool.
- zsh maybe the best shell for interactive work. Bash might provide
most of the functionality nowaday. I love the right prompt and the
tab-expansion of globbing.
Mac
stuff
Emacs
Stuff
Just
Stuff
Firefox
See
./firefox.html.
OpenACS
uptime
Simple server uptime watch:
http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/about.adp