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QuickLinks vom 9. März bis zum 20. März

der Dennis — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:35:05 +0000

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.

QuickLinks vom 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember

der Dennis — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:37:39 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember:

RTMPDump – is a toolkit for RTMP streams that actually works.
z – maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use
RubyDrop – Ruby project that aims to be an open-source, roll-your-own, Dropbox clone using Git as the backend. There's still a lot of details to work out, and the code may be a little messy, so you'll have to bear with me (it's a process)
Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python – Catastrophically bad code can be written in any language, including the elegant and powerful Python language. In this article, we explore how thinking about testing actually produces dramatically different Python code. Lastly, we learn how to measure scientifically the difference.
tig – is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands
Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac –
Textual – is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X
Detox – is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.

QuickLinks vom 7. Oktober bis zum 15. Oktober

der Dennis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:04 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 7. Oktober bis zum 15. Oktober:

Openfiler — Openfiler – Open Source Storage Management Appliance – is a network storage operating system, fronted by a web based management user interface. With the features we built into Openfiler, you can take advantage of file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking functionality in a single cohesive framework.
RAOP Client – is an Airport Express client written in ruby. It allows you to stream music to an Airport Express from Ruby.
Detexify – LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
HDRtist – Free and easy to use HDR-Software for Mac OS X
lsyncd – uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify. The first step after adding the watches is to rsync all directories with the remote host, and then sync single file by collecting the inotify events. So lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution that should be easy to install and use while blending well with your system.
sink – is a tool that allows you to compare multiple directories, take snapshots of their state, and compare the states. It also provides commands to create logical links between files to do micro changes management.
Oktoberfest Etiquette – Surviving the Oktoberfest from an US-perspective… Might come in handy…
Frizzix – ist ein kostenloser FritzBox Anrufmonitor und Anrufmanager für Mac OS X. Frizzix zeigt ein- und ausgehende Anrufe, die über eine Fritz!Box geführt werden, sowie die integrierte Anrufliste der FritzBox bequem auf dem Mac an.
Google Book Downloader – is small utility which allows you to save books as PDF from google to your local filesystem.

QuickLinks vom 22. Juli

der Dennis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:00:17 +0000

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

QuickLinks vom 2. Juni bis zum 16. Juni

der Dennis — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:07 +0000

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…

QuickLinks vom 5. November bis zum 16. November

der Dennis — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:56:25 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 5. November bis zum 16. November:

tarpipe – simplifies the process of adding, sharing, and moving content among the web services you use, by allowing you to define a repeatable, automatic workflow.
Hyperspaces – Customize Apples spacey using colors, desktop pictures, etc. Should be build in, is Shareware and in public preview for $12,95…
Advantageous mp3 – find new music on iTunes, buy it DRM-free on Amazon MP3. Currently US only…
EventBox – All in one social networking app on the Mac OS X Desktop… Shareware, $20.
Hardware-Inventarisierung mit Open-Source – Schöner Übersichtsartikel…
Fabric – is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. Unlike Capistrano, Fabric wants to stay small, light, easy to change and not bound to any specific framework.
The Big Mean Folder Machine – is an essential tool for anyone working with large file collections. It can split and merge file collections based on certain rules, filetypes size and other criteria… Shareware, 14,95€.
pssh – The Parallel ssh project includes parallel versions of the shell (pssh), scp (pscp), rsync (prsync), and kill (pnuke).
Gmail Modes – Different URLs for different modes. Might come in handy…
The GTDAlt bundle workflow – Seems a bit complicated compared to a graphical solution but maybe it just needs another look at it…

QuickLinks vom 20. Juni bis zum 7. Juli

der Dennis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:30:09 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 20. Juni bis zum 7. Juli:

Poolga – iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.
Organized – a widget featuring a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to do’s. The calendar and to do’s utilise OS X’s inbuilt databases, so they’re always in sync with iCal and Mail.
Today – is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. Shareware, $ 15.
Automating Rick Rolls with launchd – Lets face it: Your coworkers can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. What better way to remind them of this than automated Rick rolls?
Warehouse – Very nice looking, ruby based webinterface for subversion repositorys. Shareware, 30$…
Piston – is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will. As long as the changes are mergeable, you should have no problems.
Subversion Vendor Branches Howto –
Subversion With Mac OS X Tutorial – explains the basics from installing the software and getting started to working with other people on the same project.
puppet – Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks.
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure – Paper full of usefuful principles and hints on automated system deployment and maintenance.
FAI – Fully Automatic Installation – is an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions on a bunch of different hosts or a Cluster.
cfengine.org – is an automated suite of programs for configuring and maintaining Unix-like computers.
Infrastructure Management – Mike Renfros has a nice linklist. Good overall introduction…
Rsync exit codes –
ssh-rekey – Shell scripts to automate the process of regenerating, propagating ssh keys.
Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X – Based on GNU Emacs, Aquamacs integrates perfectly with OS X thanks to its specially adapted user interface.
Command Line Twitter Client – a very simple perl program that allows for posting to twitter, and reading your friends_timeline from twitter. It can initiate follow messages, and it can send direct messages.
40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks –
Saberproject.de – die erste deutschen Internetseite mit deren Hilfe man die hohe Kunst des Lichtschwertkampfes erlernen kann… WJW
LaTeX: Grundlegendes für die Diplomarbeit – Hier sind einige Hilfen versammelt, die das Schreiben einer Diplomarbeit mit LaTeX vereinfachen wollen.
Diplomarbeit mit LaTeX – ist ein Dokument welches einen einfachen Einstieg in Latex unter Windows beschreibt.
Corripio – Multi Purpose Utility for iTunes…

QuickLinks vom 29. Mai bis zum 11. Juni

der Dennis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:31:08 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 29. Mai bis zum 11. Juni:

A tour of git: the basics –
BackupPC – is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server’s disk.
DoBeDo – is a freeware Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X. The widget allows you to view, add, edit and delete todo items.
How-To: Sex mit Männern – Lesenswerte Anleitung für die interessierte Weiblichkeit…
So you want to be a consultant…? –
DESKTOPOGRAPHY –
PhoneFinger – transforms your Macs mouse cursor into a realistic simulated human finger for testing and demoing iPhone applications and websites.
218 HD Resolution Desktop Wallpapers for Nerds –
Design Stencils – Yahoo! Design Pattern Library – is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers a hell lot of topics…

QuickLinks vom 28. Februar

der Dennis — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:30:42 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 28. Februar:

PlayVideoTS – opens the VIDEO_TS folder of ripped DVDs using the Apple DVD Player
Changes – Diff on Speed. Mac OS X only Shareware, $39.95.
Using autofs for GPG keys on a USB stick –
MindNode – is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application
ccollect – (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync
Yep – iPhoto like Software targeting PDFs.
DiscRotate – is a Daemon and PreferencePane that will control the speed of your optical drives. It is written in Cocoa (Obj-C 2.0) for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
twill – is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface. With twill, you can navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features.

QuickLinks vom 4. November bis zum 8. November

der Dennis — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:31:06 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 4. November bis zum 8. November:

Neoclassical Theme for WordPress – A 3-column template system with rotating header images
How To Measure Any Distance With The Pythagorean Theorem –
RetrospeKt – KDE Backup App, It is inspired by Apple’s “Time Machine” backup system and is based on rsnapshot backup script.
Keeping track of 300 servers – How wordpress.com scales its server management
Streamripper – an Open Source (GPL) application that lets you record streaming mp3 to your hard drive
Dual Screen Wallpapers – Dual Screen Wallpaper Ressources at lifehacker.com
Scroogled in German – Cory Doctorow’s short story about the day Google went evil, translated to German. PDF is printer-friendly hi-res and contains hyperlinks.
cowsay: a configurable talking and thinking cow – is a useless but very fun text filter written in Perl.
Why every programmer should play NetHack –
Rsync Version 3 Alpha Out – Including support for OS X Ressource Forks and ACLs