Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember:

• Anki – is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
• Ledger – is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, as there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled reporting access to their data, there really is no alternative.
• Glances – is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.
• Gow – (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient "Windows installer" that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.
• Breevy – is a TextExpander clone for Windows. Snippets are syncable between Mac and Windows via Dropbox.
• Vifm – is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
• blockdiag – and its family generate diagram images from simply text file
• Archipel – is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ or VMWare. You can perform all basic virtualization commands and many other things like live migration, VMCasts, packages, etc.
• stressdrive – is a Mac OS X command-line tool meant to verify correct operation of a drive. It does so by filling a drive up with random data and ensuring all the data can be correctly read back.
• ThinkUp – is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 9. März bis zum 20. März:

• Colored word-based diff – A wrapper that does what I want most of the time, and colorizes the output is cwdiff. Version control systems can easily be coerced into using this wrapper instead of diff.
• Meslo-Font – Customized version of Apple's Menlo font. Great monospaced font for development work. Should also work with the Windows Console
• The Ultimate Wget Download Guide With 15 Awesome Examples –
• Threshold – A universal quick entry field for OS X
• Sidestep – is an open-source application for Mac OS X that sits quietly in the background, protecting your security and privacy as you browse the web.
• blueMarine – An open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos, from the shoot up to the archiving and beyond. blueMarine is an expandable, open platform and includes specific support for different photographers communities, as well as the latest technologies.
• Insufficiently known POSIX shell features – all the tricks below work in every POSIX shell I know of. None of them are bashisms.
• lipsync – is an open source, lightweight service that provides command-line, Dropbox – like syncing in Linux using OpenSSH, rsync, unison and lsyncd.
• gfxCardStatus – is a menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your unibody, dual-GPU MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them on demand.
• Darik's Boot And Nuke – ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Februar bis zum 18. Februar:

• Tweet Nest – A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
• git mail – Why to store your mail in git
• ttyload – is a little *NIX utility… to give a color-coded graph of load averages over time.
• Backup Loupe – is an extension for TimeMachine on OS X
• SoyWiki – turns Vim into a powerful, lean, and fast wiki. It’s got all the protein of a more conventional wiki, but less saturated fat and no cholesterol.
• Git Immersion – is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
• ClipCube – is a tiny clipboard history tool under development for Windows: it sits in the system tray, recording copied text for later use.
• How to write vim plugins with python – You only need very little knowledge of VimL to be able to write plugins, if you know Python (or Ruby).
• DiskWave – is a free disk usage utility. It helps you determine where most of your hard drive space is consumed. DiskWave was previously known as WhichSize.
• SABnzbd – makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.

Storage ist knapp.

Dabei ist es völlig nebensächlich, ob wir über virtuellen Storage auf Festplatten und anderen elektronischen Medien sprechen, oder über den tatsächlichen, physischen Raum in dem wir unsere ganzen Plörren verstauen können, reden.

Es gibt, aus aktuellem Anlass und meiner begrenzten Erfahrung nach, kaum eine bessere Art, tiefe Einsicht in die persönlichen Storage-Probleme beider Coleur zu erhalten, als ein Arbeitszimmer in ein Kinderzimmer zu verwandeln.

Denn eben in diesem Raum befindet sich per definitionem der mitunter größte Teil realer wie virtueller Plörren. Diese verteilen sich im Groben wie folgt:

• Bücher: Viele Bücher. Aus Papier. Zweireihig und gestapelt in einem überquellenden Regal¹.
• Papierkram: Behörden-Korrespondenz, Rechnungen & Quittungen, Kontoauszüge, Gehaltsabrechnungen und so weiter. Das Zeug liegt, abgeheftet in thematisch sortierten Ordnern, in einem Schrank.
• Lose Hardware: Drucker, Scanner, Kameras nebst Stativ, Blitz und Objektiven, Vermutlich so 100 CDs und DVDs, ungefähr 3 Kilo diverse Kabel und Adapter. Das alles verteilt sich auf einen Schrank und zwei Schubladen.
• Fotos: Auf Papier. Relativ unsortiert in Alben und lose. Füllen eine Schublade.
• Der Cube: Zentraler Server für Backup, alles Mögliche™ und spezielle Spezialaufgaben™ . Gebietet über zwei externe MyBook-Festplatten mit einer Gesamtkapazität² von 1,5 TB. Wohnt auf einer kleinen Kommode neben meinem Schreibtisch.
• Dennis Schreibtisch³: Im wesentlichen ist das eine MacBook Docking Station bestehend aus einem 100 MBit Netzwerk-Anschluss, einem antiken 17″ Display, Maus, Tastatur, einem mStand und den Soundsticks nebst Subwoofer.
• Kathis Schreibtisch: Ich bin mir gar nicht völlig im Klaren darüber, was die Liebste so alles in und auf ihrem Schreibtisch lagert, aber es ist schon eine beachtliche Menge.
• Der ganze Rest: Das rangiert zwischen Tischtennisschlägern, Geschenkpapier, Stauder-Deckel-Sammlung, Druckerpapier, Briefumschlägen und was eben noch so da ist…

Das alles muss da raus, um Platz zu schaffen für kinderzimmertypische Möbel wie Bett, Schrank, Wickelkommode and what have you. Dazu Spielzeug, andere Bücher aus Papier, Windeln, Puder, Cremes und ganz sicherlich noch mehr Zeugs, von dem ich bisher noch nicht mal ahne, dass es in Zukunft wichtig werden wird.

Ja. Und da ich nun mal so bin wie ich bin, werde ich die Fortschritte die Kathi und ich in der Sache erzielen, hier aufschreiben. Vermutlich wird die Migration sowohl zeitlich als auch thematisch wie folgt aufgeteilt:

• Bücher – Wie sie in den Flur umziehen
• Papierkram – Zettelwirtschaft zu PDF-Management
• Computer – Home Network Redesign
• Zeugs – Das Problem mit dem ganzen Rest
• Finale – Ein Kinderzimmer herstellen

Stay tuned for Links and Posts…

1. Nicht dem verlinkten [↩]
2. die natürlich nett ausgelastet ist… [↩]
3. Das Bild ist, $DIVINITY sei dank, schon was älter und der Schreibtisch schon deutlich kleiner und ordentlicher [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli:

• CCC | Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz – Der CCC – Die Stimme der Vernunft.
• CMS Tree Page View – is a plugin for WordPress that adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.
• Aufbewahrungsfristen für Dokumente – Sehr praktische Informationen aus der Quintessenz von WDR 2.
• Exchange ActiveSync on Mac OS X Server –
• UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits –
• Mailboxes – is a multi-user Gmail client for the iPad, letting you easily and securely access your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on a shared iPad.
• The Firmware Umbrella – Making local iOS Restores possible by saving your SHSH hashes locally and at Cydia. This way, even when (not if) Apple decides to stop signing your firmware, you are still able to install it…
• Hacking Network Printers (Mostly HP JetDirects, but a little info on the Ricoh Savins) – This article will attempt to point out some of the more interesting things that can be done with a network based printer to make it reveal information about its users, owners and the network it's part of.
• Disk2vhd – is a utility that creates VHD versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
• London Food Tipps » tautoko weblog – Asian food and coffee stores.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Mai bis zum 1. Juni:

• Localghost – makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.
• FitNesse – The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework.
• cdf – colorized df with friendly capacity bars. Written in pure C without any external dependencies
• Droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
• Tagr – is an application for Mac OS X that helps you organize your MP3 / M4A (MP4) collection.
• easymac.sh – is a shellscript which generates global, VMware or Xen MAC-addresses
• MTR – combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• calibre – is a free and open source e-book library management application
• How To Make German Pancakes, Dutch Baby Pancakes – Bring this spectacular breakfast or brunch dish to the table as soon as it comes out of the oven for a lot of oohs and aahs! <br /> A German Pancake is a cross between a soufflé and an omelet – it is a light, airy pancake with sides.
• Immer im Dienst – Artikel über eine Nagios-Erweiterung zur Überwachung von SLA-Bedingungen. Recht alt und rudimentär…

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 23. März bis zum 6. April:

• bup – Highly efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format. Capable of doing incremental backups of virtual machine images.
• diskring – is a Mac OS X utility that displays the disk usage through a handy ring chart effect
• Hg Init – a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky including Subversion Re-education
• PeaZip – Open source file and archive manager for Windows and Linux. Flexibe, portable, secure, and free as in freedom
• Getting started with retirement on a sailboat – Maybe some day…
• Snippets – Code Snippet Manager for Mac OS X, $39,95
• Common MySQL Queries – *Lots* of useful MySQL Queries…
• reMail – downloads all your email to your iPhone and searches it instantly.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 1. Dezember bis zum 5. Dezember:

• SpaceSuit – is Spaces missing feature: 1 different background image for every Space.
• The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos –
• Time Tamer – Don't want Time Machine to fill up your whole Drobo? This application for OS X based upon an Automator action provides a simple way when you're setting up Time Machine to force it to only use up 2x the size of your internal hard drive for backup on your external hard drive
• Google Analytics: Tutorials, Tools und Tipps –
• calaboration – makes it easy to set up iCal to view and edit your Google Calendar calendars.
• Unison and the OS X hostname – Simply setting UNISONLOCALHOSTNAME works fine for me…
• FluidTunes – gives you control over your music using only a camera, and your hands, head or feet.
• apticron – is a simple script that will email you when new versions of any package installed are available.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 18. November bis zum 20. November:

• XMind – Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping. Cross Platform and Open Source. Looks very nice.
• vocito – A desktop UI for GrandCentral for the Mac.
• Liquid Templating language – Ruby library for rendering safe templates which cannot affect the security of the server they are rendered on.
• jekyll – is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
• trivium – chneukirchen's minimalist blogging engine
• Failing hard drive sounds – The Horror!
• ParanoidLinux – is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret.
• Der Cthulhu Mythos 70 Jahre nach H.P. Lovecrafts Tod – Eine Untersuchung über die Einflüsse einer literarischen Idee auf Medien und Subkulturen

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 19. Juni:

• Migratr – is a desktop application which moves photos between popular photo sharing services. Migratr will also migrate your metadata, including the titles, tags, descriptions and album organization.
• Debian — Übersetzung von Paketbeschreibungen – DDTP
• O’Reilly Maker – Create a funny book cover! – Make your own O`Reilly Cover. Hours of fun!
• Entertainer – aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for the Gnome and XFce desktop environments.
• Telling Folders – With this little utility, you can easily put any image on top of your folder icons to make them easily distinguishable.
• Set Icon – is a small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives.
• MultiTunes – is an iTunes plug-in that lets you manage multiple iTunes libraries simply and seamlessly from within iTunes itself. Shareware, 15,99 $.
• iPhone Visual Voicemail Codes für Rufumleitung –