Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar:

• Bip – is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection.
• KNC – is Kerberised NetCat. It works in basically the same way as either netcat or stunnel except that it is Kerberised. You can use it to construct client/server applications while keeping the Kerberos libraries out of your programs address space quickly and easily.
• glark – A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions, and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
• runiq – functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters.
• TrID – is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded logic, TrID has no fixed rules. Instead, it's extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way.
• DropIt – A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
• droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
• Markdown QuickTags – is a plugin for WordPress which replaces the HTML editor with a Markdown-enabled set of buttons and features.
• DIY Star Wars Snowflakes – Paper-snowflakes going Star Wars
• Melo – Very cool looking last.fm client for Mac OS X

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November:

• spark – A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line.
• glogg – is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
• ResophNotes – Notational Velocity clone for Windows including Simplenote-sync and Markdown support
• Pandoc – is your swiss-army knife if you need to convert files from one markup format into another. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too.
• GitLab – is your own lite app for projects/repositories hosting on your server. Basically it is a free GithHub Clone written in Ruby on Rails.
• Coordino – allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy. Basically it is a free StackOverflow Clone written in PHP.
• KeyStroke – is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
• Samurize – is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.
• dexy – is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
• MarkdownPad – is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober:

• Apple Store Refurb Tracker – provides different feeds enabling you to track apparition of new products on the Apple Store Refurb pages.
• Pinky – is a free portable web server.
• PieCrust – is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels.
• num-utils – are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line. Much like the other Unix command line utilities like grep, awk, sort, cut, etc. these utilities work on data from both standard in and data from files.
• Bashish – is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
• Fake – is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.
• Avatar Harmony – Synchronize your profile pics between Facebook, Twitter and Gravatar.
• git-dude – is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
• Private Eye – is a free network monitor for Mac OS X Lion
• bcat – pipe to browser utility

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 23. Dezember bis zum 1. Januar:

• Guide to using Screen and Irssi –
• logstalgia – is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams Apache web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests.
• gource – is a software version control visualization tool.
• The git pickaxe: finding changes was never easier – Wouldn't it be great if you could find all the changes to a line in your entire history? Sort of like git blame, but only for revisions that match some string.This is where git's pickaxe functionality comes in.
• ClipX – is a tiny clipboard history manager for windows. It is sweet, it is free, use it.
• Git sync via USB –
• Vmail – is a Vim interface to Gmail
• pit – is a command-line project manager that integrates with Git
• Cram – is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial's unified test format.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 28. August bis zum 3. September:

• Principia Discordia – Principia Discordia, 1st Edition.
• Backing Up Flickr – Backing up Flickr with Python…
• A Guide on Advanced Logging and Benchmarking with FirePHP –
• 4-minute Chocolate Mousse – This incredibly decadent, luxurious chocolate mousse recipe comes to us from Gordon Ramsay (to whom I lovingly refer as Angry Chef). You have to try this! It's worth every single minute of effort.
• Burning Man And Its Radical Links To Silicon Valley And Geek Culture –
• TweetMyMac – lets you get screenshots, iSight snapshots, and your IP address from your Mac just by sending a direct message to your specially setup Mac controlling account. You can start torrents remotely, shutdown your Mac and more.
• How to Actually Make Coffee – You probably brew coffee, like most people, the most insipid way possible: Using a Mr. Coffee that you fill with pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. There's a million other ways to make coffee, and they're all better.
• MiniBatteryStatus Widget – is a small Dashboard widget that monitors battery status, charge percentage and remaining battery life. Integrated with Growl to alert you when it's time to recharge your battery.
• DateLine – is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.
• Ye Olde Map Maker – Very cool online tool to create maps for table-top role playing games.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 22. Juli:

• Ad-Hoc Verses Structured System Management – Great article about structured Management for Servers and other IT-stuff.
• Spacewalk – is an open source Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code –
• Backup FAQ im Chip-Forum – Sehr gute Vorstellung von verschiedenen Backupszenarien unter Windows. Dazu eine Tonne Links.
• logcheck – brilliantly simple log monitoring

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 17. Februar bis zum 2. März:

• fsvs – is the abbreviation for Fast System VerSioning. It is a complete backup/restore/versioning tool for all files in a directory tree or whole filesystems, with a subversion repository as the backend.
• Spike – is a log file viewing & (if we’re being generous) analysis tool for Rails developers.
• toland's qlmarkdown at master – GitHub – Very nice plugin, adding QuickLook and Spotlight Support for .markdown files…
• Bowtie – is a free application that allows you to control iTunes with shortcuts, submits your songs to Last.fm, and sports a very simple, yet very powerful, xhtml + css + javascript based theming system.
• Anonymous – is a TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 24. November bis zum 28. November:

• Recording SSH sessions – Possible from client and server side…
• Mit dem Bundestag zurück ins Web 1.0 – Perl-Blog – Gesetzeswidrige Abfrage persönlicher Daten, komplizierte Benutzerführung und Software mit Sicherheitslücken kennzeichnen die neue Online-Petitions-Webseite.
• Triple Booting Your Mac – Nice walkthrough…
• 2 Cheat Sheets for Incident Handling –
• FancyBox – fancy image zooming tool, very nice alternative to lightbox.
• Hollywood Screen Saver – A timelapse postcard from the City of Angels.
• EtherPad – Realtime Collaborative Text Editing. Think SubEthaEdit for the Web.
• pusher – Installer.app without the need to jailbreak?
• Let me google that for you – Hilarious! Just what I need!
• Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby – with MacRuby, you can create Mac OS X applications with Ruby while maintaining the peformance benefits of a fully fledged Cocoa application. This article will show you how to get started with MacRuby and build your first sample application.
• Mac User Treff im Unperfekhaus – Jeden letzten Montag im Monat um 18 Uhr: Offener Treff für Apple Mac User und solche, die es (vielleicht) werden wollen. Der mStore aus dem Limbecker Platz übernimmt Eintritt/Getränkeflatrate für jeden, der mit einem Mac kommt…
• Liste mit öffentlichen DNS Servern – Might come in handy…
• GitX – is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X
• Show\Hide Files – is an application created to cause the Finder to show Unix files and other hidden files.

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The goal is to provide ~100 ideas, concepts and rules for admins (the ones having to fight against murphy) in a clear manner. Reading them will take a few minutes. Practicing them will take forever.

1. Know your tools.
2. Anticipate.
3. Expect problems.
4. Design it.
5. Scale.
6. Backup.
7. Communicate.
8. Document.

Details zu den einzelnen Punkten und ein schickes pdf zum ausdrucken und aufhängen gibt es bei adminzen.org.

(via: jalogisch.de)

1. Das Foto wurde netterweise von melolou unter einer cc-Lizenz veröffentlich, danke dafür! [↩]

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 2. April bis zum 4. April:

• The Big Questions – Created in conjunction with the 2008 TED conference, this widget supports questions that are important to IDEO and to the extended TED community.
• Twimbler Welcome to Twimbler. – Feeding a Tumblelog through Twitter-Messages…
• punch – is a k.i.s.s. tool for tracking the hours spent on various projects. It supports logging hours under a project name, adding notes about work done during that period, and several very simple reporting tools that operate over a window of time.
• How to Dry a Wet Book – These procedures are for drying one or a few wet books, and should be used in the evenings and weekends when the Preservation Department is not staffed.
• Fluency Admin – Alternative WordPress-Admin Theme. Comparable to Tiger Admin but compatible to 2.5…