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| AcidRip | AcidRip is a Gtk2::Perl application for ripping and encoding DVD's. It neatly wraps MPlayer and MEncoder, which I think is pretty handy, seeing as MPlayer is by far the best bit of video playing kit around for Linux. As well as creating a simple Graphical Interface for those scared of getting down and dirty with MEncoders command line interface, It also automates the process in a number of ways. |
| Alternative PHP Cache | The APC cache works by storing the compiled instructions for a PHP script in shared memory (either SystemV shared memory or memory-mapped files). When a file is run, the extension checks to see if it is cached. If so, the instructions are read from memory and the compilation step is bypassed. Otherwise the file is compiled as usual and inserted into the cache. |
| Apache | Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The March 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 54% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined. The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. |
| apcupsd | Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. |
| Bacula | Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Supports encryption for storage and transport, network level backup and individual dated restore points. If you're not backing up your data you might want to consider taking a look at this. |
| BalanceNG | BalanceNG (Balance Next Generation) is a Software IP Load Balancing Solution utilising its own network stacks and functionality. It runs on Linux-x86 (2.4 and 2.6 kernels distribution independent). Layer 2 (Ethernet) based software load balancer, so that rewriting the client address like a network level load balancer is unnecessary. |
| CrossOver Office | CrossOver Office allows you to install your favorite Windows productivity applications in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing a Windows application simple and fast. Once installed, your application will integrate directly with your Gnome or KDE environment. Just click and run your application, exactly as you would in Windows, but with the full freedom of Linux. |
| Dovecot | Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written in C, it uses several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers' implementation of them, as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly. Due to the maildir caching I've moved to dovecot from courier and I am very impressed with the performance. |
| duplicate file finder | A duplicate file finder written in php. Once again proving it's not the programming language, but rather then algorithm that makes a program fast or not. Much faster then many of the C based duplicate file finders available on the web, because the algorithm sucks less. |
| duplicate file finder in perl | Some people laugh at the idea of using php for any kinda system script. So i rewrote the script in perl, which results in a somewhat mild constant time speed increase. |
| FluxBox | Fluxbox is yet another window manager for X. It's based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like Blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar things exactly like Blackbox (100% theme/style compatibility). My new favorite light weight WM, very powerful, yet has a very small footprint. Looks fairly nice with the right themes too! |
| FreeRADIUS | FreeRADIUS features more than 50 vendor-specific dictionary files. It ships with support for LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle databases. It supports EAP, with EAP-MD5, EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, and Cisco LEAP sub-types. It supports proxying, with fail-over and load balancing. It has reached a stable 1.0 release, with incremental improvements being added and tested daily. In short, it is a powerful, fast, and complex RADIUS server which is compatible with the latest network protocols and practices, and is well suited for deployment in any size network. |
| freshmeat | freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new applications are added daily. Each entry provides a description of the software, links to download it and to obtain more information, and a history of the project's releases, so readers can keep up-to-date on the latest developments. |
| Gentoo Linux Wiki | The Gentoo-Linux Wiki has been created in order to give people a place to post HOWTOs, tips and general Gentoo Linux information. A great source of information on running Gentoo. |
| hostapd | hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, Prism54 drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211). |
| httpd usage metric | A simple perl app written to calculate bandwidth usage from httpd log files. |
| IP Subnet Calculator | The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet. A great resource if you're bad at math. |
| Jetty Java HTTP Servlet Server | Jetty is a 100% Java HTTP Server and Servlet Container. This means that you do not need to configure and run a separate web server (like Apache) in order to use java, servlets and JSPs to generate dynamic content. Jetty is a fully featured web server for static and dynamic content. Unlike separate server/container solutions, this means that your web server and web application run in the same process, without interconnection overheads and complications. Furthermore, as a pure java component, Jetty can be simply included in your application for demonstration, distribution or deployment. Jetty is available on all Java supported platforms. |
| KernelTrap | KernelTrap is a web community devoted to sharing the latest in kernel development news. |
| KMail | KMail is a fully-featured email client that fits nicely into the K Desktop Environment, KDE. It has features such as support for IMAP, POP3, multiple accounts, powerful filters, PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline attachments, and much more. |
| Linus flames the world | Debate over zero-copy implementation on a varity of *nix like operating systems causes Linus to flame FreeBSD kernel devs. This gets slashdot'ed and turns into a temptest in a teapot. The slashdot comments relating to this are actually more confusing and misleading then helpful. Finally Linus flames slashdot posters. |
| Linux as a serial terminal | Need a dumb terminal to reset a router/switch password? got an old machine with a serial port in it? Use this. |
| linuxISO | Download links to the latest iso files for each linux distro, and *BSD. What they do, is use a clever php script and some apache rules to find a fast, open mirror and forward you seemlessly to that mirror. If you need to leech an ISO file for the latest *nix, this is the place to go. |
| LyX | LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. Finally a GUI latex editing tool for win32 and unix! |
| Minitab R13 on Linux | Screenshot from my machine at home. Running minitab R13 through wine emulation. So yes, if you dont want to use R, you can have a good stats package on a linux box. There are increasingly less and less applications unavailable to linux users on the desktop. |
| mod mono | Run ASP.NET pages on Unix with Apache and Mono. |
| Mozilla | Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Currently my favorite browser for both unix platforms and for win32. One feature I like is that it includes the ability to disable popups, and delete all cookies on exit. The latest builds render webpages about as quickly as IE does too. |
| Open Office | OpenOffice is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. |
| OpenAFS | AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data. IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS. |
| OpenDNS | OpenDNS protects millions of people a day across hundreds of thousands of schools, businesses and homes. We block phishing sites, give you the power to filter out adult sites and proxies among more than 40 categories, and provide the precision to block individual domains. Free and globally accessible dns servers. |
| pccard | A pccard patch for sysinstall. This is really only useful to you if you plan on building your own release. What this patch does is place the IRQ settings for pccard configuration into /etc/pccard.conf rather then in /etc/rc.conf. So we dont end up with two different configuration files for the same configuration item. |
| php | PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym. |
| play random file | Little perl script I wrote cause I got tired of picking something out at random. It'll crawl recursively through a directory list and pick out a random file of whatever type available to play. Good for massive mp3 collections or picture directories. |
| Postfix | What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. This software was formerly known as VMailer. It was released by the end of 1998 as the IBM Secure Mailer. From then on it has lived on as Postfix. In my opinion it's the best MTA out there.
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| PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available. A kick ass opensource databased, when used in combination with the available odbc handler it makes a great drop in replacement for ms-sql. Oddly enough mysql and not postgresql powers this site. |
| Pound | The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Handles fail over too and is a http sanitizer. |
| pssh | Parallel SSH for controlling large collections of nodes in the wide-area, where faster alternatives such as GEXEC and PCP are not available. |
| qsort.java | Some java code written to test the speed of qsorts using different pivot point selection criteria. |
| QTorrent | QTorrent is a BitTorrent client that uses the Qt widget-set. It allows you to have several torrents open at the same time from within the same program window, offering you easy overview, access and management through a list-mode. Every torrent also has it's own page where you can control things like upload speed and upload slots. A page that shows some statistics of all open torrents is also available. |
| Quagga Routing Suite | Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPv3 and BGPv4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro. The Quagga tree aims to build a more involved community around Quagga than the current centralised model of GNU Zebra. |
| screenshot3 | A screenshot taken from my FreeBSD workstation. Running gnome 1.4, xmms and tail'ing my ipfilter logs. I also realized I still had some really tasteless mp3 files hanging around after I took this screenshot and promptly deleted them. Mainly spicegirls... yuck, why did I ever download that in the first place? |
| screenshot4 | A desktop screenshot of my FreeBSD workstation. In it I'm using gnome 1.4, Mozilla 0.9.8, and I'm going through old mysql history files. BTW, the password seen in the terminal was changed long ago, so dont bother trying. Infact the .mysql_history I'm reading isn't even mine. Regardless, you can see the semi cool background and the transparent terminal window. I'm also using gnomemc rather then nautilus, cause I find nautilus very bloated and slow. |
| screenshot5 | A screenshot of my redhat 7.2 box, running crossover office. I have word 2000, and windows media player running inside of my kde 3.0 desktop. Very nifty indeed, I'm in the process of reviewing a resume that was saved in .doc format. |
| screenshot6 | My latest desktop screenshot, featuring the liquid kde borders, transparent terminal, opera 6.02 full version, and konqueror browsing my mp3 files. In the terminal I'm also running lftp, and pulling down iso files for redhat 7.3. |
| screenshot7 | Latest picture of my desktop. Running kde 3.1.2 on my gentoo box... Using the liquid high performance borders, and leeching from bittorrent at a fairly respectable speed. |
| shfs | Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell (ssh) connection. When using shfs, you can access all remote files just like the local ones, only the access is governed through the transport security of ssh. |
| Squid Web Proxy Cache | Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging. By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings. |
| The OK Web Server | OKWS is a Web server, specialized for building fast and secure Web services. It provides Web developers with a small set of tools that has proved powerful enough to build complex systems with limited effort. Despite its emphasis on security, OKWS shows performance advantages relative to popular competitors: when servicing fully dynamic, non-disk-bound database workloads, OKWS's throughput and responsiveness exceed that of Apache, Flash (the reigning king of Web server performance) and Haboob (an academic system reputed to be the fastest Java Web server on the block). Commercial experience with OKWS suggests that the system can reduce hardware and system management costs, while providing security guarantees absent in current systems. |
| tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server | tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server. Very small, simple to setup and use. Plus the speed and throttling are nice. If you need a seperate server for static content like images, this is definitely the way to go. |
| tinyPEAP | tinyPEAP is a very small RADIUS server that supports PEAP authentication (the most secure wireless authentication protocol). It was designed from scratch to be able to run on very minimal hardware, such as the Linksys WRT54G. What are the benefits of such a server? Traditional 802.1X/RADIUS solutions require a dedicated RADIUS server and a rather complex setup. tinyPEAP allows you to have all of the benefits of 802.1X and PEAP security without the hassle of having a full blow RADIUS server on hand. In fact, the whole setup fits in a relatively cheap wireless access point that is very easy to setup. |
| Ultimate Boot CD | Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them. |
| Unionfs | Unionfs is a stackable unification file system, which can merge the contents of several directories (so called branches) while keeping their physical content separate. It allows any mix of read-only and read-write branches, as well as insertion and deletion of branches on the fly. Unionfs can be used in several ways, for example to unify home directories from multiple filesystems on different disk partitions, or to merge several CDs to create a unified view of a photo archive. In a similar view, Unionfs, with copy-on-write functionality, can be used to merge read-only and read-write filesystems together and to virtually allow modification of read-only filesystems saving changes to the writable ones. |
| VirtualBox | VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
| Windowsupdate on linux | Yes, I'm running windowsupdate on a linux box. Gentoo 1.4, with a linux 2.6 kernel btw, and i'm updating my IE 6.0. Hey i needed to upgrade to IE 6.0 sp1, and this was the easiest way. The pure sickness of it is what made me want to take a screenshot. So here it is. |
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