Meine delicious.com-Links vom 21. Juli bis zum 30. Juli:

• CloudBerry Backup – provides a powerful Backup and Restore programfor Windows, designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
• TaskMate – Very simple, minimal and free ToDo-List manager…
• sigil – is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
• Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
• pymacadmin – A collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration.
• Notes – is designed to focus on organizing plain text notes that are saved automatically. Just write your note and don't worry about saving them.
• Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME which looks a lot like iPhoto…
• Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud im Test – Windows Pro blickt über den Tellerrand und testet die Ubuntu Cloud Lösung auf Basis von Eucalyptus.
• The version controlled home directory – managing dotfiles using Git, MR and a few handy scripts…
• Versioning dotfiles in git –

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 7. April bis zum 21. April:

• tmux – is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.
• Newsbeuter – is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. Newsbeuter's great configurability and vast number of features make it a perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.
• Homebrew – is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
• Fairmount – is a free tool which allows on-the-fly decryption of DVD content for convenient access. Fairmount does not perform the actual decryption, it simply forwards the data to VLC Media Player, which is used for the decryption.
• skreenics – is a Mac OS X application that is designed to easily create thumbnails from your videos. You simply drag 'n drop files and folders onto the main screen, and Skreenics will generate the thumbnails the way you asked it!
• libimobiledevice – is a software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices on Linux. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
• Flying the SR-71 Blackbird –
• Fake Name Generator – Generiert Namen und Adressen aus verschiedenen Teilen der Erde. Sehr praktisch, falls mal eine gültige Postleitzahl oder sonst etwas gebraucht wird…
• pwnat – pronounced "poe-nat", is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NATs to communicate with a server behind a separate NAT with *no* port forwarding and *no* DMZ setup on any routers in order to directly communicate with each other.
• Ebbinghaus – Digital index cards shareware with LaTeX support for $20. Seems to be quite nice to learn vocabulary, formulas and other things…

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 4. März bis zum 23. März:

• collectd – is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
• CSVed – is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator.
• Simple Desktops – is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.
• Continuous Integration – is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.
• Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem – Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like —) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported.
• Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation – Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.
• smitten kitchen Recipe Index – Fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City with delicious photos…
• Uniform – masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
• vi Complete Key Binding List – This is not intended as a tutorial. It is a reference on what every vi key binding does, followed by some useful vi tricks and tips. An expert will probably know most of these already, but an intermediate vi user will find valuable information, and even an expert may learn a thing or two.
• Ephemera – will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading HTML, Mobipocket or EPUB files.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 2. Juni bis zum 16. Juni:

• 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes – What to do with your Backup when you MAC changed…
• rsync-Backup der c’t unter Windows Vista –
• Paperkey für das GnuPG Schlüssel-Backup –
• The joy of electronic books – Scanning around 3000 books and making them available in a personal ebook library. Awesome!
• ViEmu for Word and Outlook – is an innovative new product that provides vi/vim emulation for document processing in Microsoft Word, and for mail composing in Microsoft Outlook.
• System Administrator Interview Cheat Sheet –
• A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where we're going – Well worth the read…

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 19. September bis zum 23. September:

• iGenres – Using this application you can easily change pictures that represent musical genres in new iTunes 8 grid view.
• Build Ajax-based Web sites with PHP – Learn the process of writing Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications using native JavaScript™ code and PHP. This article introduces a few different frameworks and application program interfaces (APIs) that reduce the amount of code you need to write to achieve a complete Ajax-based Web application.
• WordPress Developer’s Toolbox – This post provides all kinds of WordPress-related resources to do just that.
• Network Naming Schemes – Good names for nodes of any kind…
• Diagnose Boreout –
• Top 12 Stunning WordPress Theme –
• iSquint – s an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.
• SlideRocket – is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.
• Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book – Yay!
• contacts – gives you access to view and search all your records in the AddressBook database from the shell.

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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 8. April bis zum 10. April:

• Twibright Optar – Backup to paper. About 200kb per page including error correction…
• CS193E – Cocoa Programming – Stanford Cocoa Course
• The RoundCube Webmail Project – is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface.
• Die Meerschweinchensprache – Zwitschernde Meerschweinchen, ich schnall ab…
• RegExr – Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
• locr – Another Website for geotagged photos. Offers a free geotagging software for symbian based mobile phones and a free windows only geotagging software…
• Panoramio – The site for adding geotagged photos to Google Earth.
• Git – SVN Crash Course – Here we will briefly introduce you to Git usage based on your current Subversion knowledge.
• Ditz – is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with distributed version control systems like darcs and git.
• Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning – Wonderful.
• Tweet Clouds – Builds a WordCloud of all words in all your Tweets…
• HTun – is a tool to allow you to create a fully bidirectional IP VPN over an HTTP proxy or just over port 80, allowing you to bypass restrictive firewalls and use any service you desire.
• Twitter Friend Adder – Adds 20 random friends to your twitter account. Maybe the most useless twitter-tool known to mankind…
• GeoPlugin – allows you to attach geographic coordinate information to posts. It also lets you specify a default geographic location for your entire WordPress blog.
• Twubble – can help expand your Twitter bubble. It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.

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…