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QuickLinks vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar

der Dennis — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:22:04 +0000

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

QuickLinks vom 30. August bis zum 16. September

der Dennis — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:18:22 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 30. August bis zum 16. September:

solo – is a very simple script (10 lines) that prevents a program from running more than one copy at a time. It is useful with cron to make sure that a job doesn't run before a previous one has finished
teamocil – is a tool used to automatically create sessions, windows and splits in tmux with Ruby and YAML. Like tmuxinator, but with splits, not just windows.
BoxCryptor – is a cryptographic virtual harddisk that encrypts all data on-the-fly using the AES-256 standard. Encrypted data is stored in an arbitrary directory of your choice, e.g. one that is synced to the cloud like your Dropbox folder.
ColorPicker Pro – is an easy to use color detection tool for developers and designers.
auto_torrent – Give it a list of stuff to look out for, set your bittorrent client’s ‘watch’ directory to match auto_torrent’s download directory, infringe copyright without lifting a finger.
Supervisor – is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.
Jump – type j in a terminal, and enter your query at the prompt: results will be updated live as you type. Switch between suggestions with up and down arrow, select with enter and boom you’re in the right directory. Basically, all the fancy web 2.0 autosuggest mojo right in your terminal.
Vigor – the popular Unix editor vi with the addition of the Vigor Assistant, has arrived.
Conque – is a Vim plugin which allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash on linux or powershell.exe on Windows, inside a Vim buffer. In other words it is a terminal emulator which uses a Vim buffer to display the program output.

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 21. Februar bis zum 6. März

der Dennis — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:16:22 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März:

git-annex – allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
Handling my music collection with git-annex – Very cool, would probably not work with iTunes…
Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
tumblr2wp – Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install.
Naked Password – The whole idea of naked password is to encourage your users to enter stronger passwords. Our beautiful model Sally tastefully removes items of clothing as the password grows stronger.
beets – is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
Searching Active Directory with ldapsearch – If you think there isn't a trick to this, that means you've never tried it – leastways not on an Active Directory container that has more than 1,000 objects in it (or whatever the search limit has been set to in your environment)
TCP Performance problems caused be interaction between Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK – The overall summary is that many of the mechanisms that make TCP so great, like fast retransmit, work best when there's a continuous flow of data for the TCP state machine to work on. If you send a block of data and then stop and wait for an application-layer acknowledgment from the other end, the state machine can falter.
shop – A tool to show permissions at every level in a path. Shop gives you a quick overview of the permissions of the directory in question, as well as the permissions of every directory above it in the tree.
monotone – is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

QuickLinks vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar

der Dennis — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:25:29 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar:

RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines – This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use.
Celerity – is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications.
cucumber-nagios – lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format
Traverso – Is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music
VimGolf – Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke – do you?
Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line – Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
Free e-books for Windows administrators – This is a list of free e-books that are useful for Windows administrators. It will be regularly updated.
Review Board – is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
Shelf – is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.
NanoCount – is a little utility for MacOS X. It provides a word count feature for TextEdit, OS X's built-in word processor.

QuickLinks vom 13. September bis zum 29. September

der Dennis — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:28:50 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 13. September bis zum 29. September:

Hyperdock – adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more. Apple should buy this and include it's features in 10.7…
subler – is an Mac OS X app created to mux mp4 files
JIRA – provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.
Redmine – is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
The Passive Splice Network Tap – works by connecting a sniffer's RX to either the RX or TX of the wire being sniffed. By having two RX interfaces on the sniffer, you can capture full duplex traffic on the wire.
Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So –

QuickLinks vom 1. September bis zum 10. September

der Dennis — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:16:28 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 1. September bis zum 10. September:

10 Things You Did Not Know About Monkey Island –
Briefe erstellen in Latex –
byobu – includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.
Window Shifter Home – is a tool which allows you to move applications between networked computers of different OS. It works through some really sophisticated ssh and vnc magic…
gitolite – allows you to setup a centralised git server, with very fine-grained access control and many (many!) more powerful features.
Vimprobable – is a WWW browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine (using GTK bindings).
Kaleidoscope – Advanced diff-App for Mac OS X. Compares Textfiles, Code and Images. Also: Shiny. Shareware, 29,00 €

QuickLinks vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli

der Dennis — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:55:13 +0000

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.

QuickLinks vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli

der Dennis — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:02:12 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli:

Your PasswordCard – is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.
sslh – ssl/ssh multiplexer – lets one accept both HTTPS and SSH connections on the same port. It makes it possible to connect to an SSH server on port 443 (e.g. from inside a corporate firewall) while still serving HTTPS on that port.
An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters – This article is aimed at people who want to contribute to projects which are using Subversion as their code-wiki
Meerkat – An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac. Shareware, $19,95…
Add to Google Reader Safari Extension – captures a click on the RSS button and redirects the feed preview page in Google Reader where the user can subscribe immediately.
Test: Windows 7 Backup – was es kann und was nicht – So was kann man offenbar nicht auf gewöhnliche Enduser los lassen…
Little 'ruby' photo organizer – Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.
Tarsnap – is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.
Git Extensions – is a toolkit to make working with Git under Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer and presents a nice context menu on files.
Fraise – is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on..

QuickLinks vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai

der Dennis — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:13:47 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai:

latex-lab – is an open source implementation of a web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs.
adsf – A Dead Simple Fileserver is a tiny web server that you can launch instantly in any directory.
NConf – NConf is a PHP based web-tool for configuring the Nagios monitoring software. It differs from similar tools by offering enterprise-class features like templates, dependencies and the ability to configure a large-scale, distributed Nagios server topology.
3-2-1 – is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable
60 Minimal Apple Desktop Wallpapers –
Driver Easy – Auto-Detect & Download your Hardware Drivers, Quickly & Easily.
Analyzing I/O performance in Linux –
ifconfig.me – Get your current external IP via curl ifconfig.me
The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide –
Gas Mask – is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X Leopard. It enables to edit hosts files and switch between them.