pv - 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.

MOST is a powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?

The IJ Bash Environment is a packaging of part of the way I set up my own bash + xterm environment in Linux. There isn't much code to it, but a little script code can go a long way, and it appears to be sufficiently original to be worth sharing.

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data. pigz was written by Mark Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries. To compile and use pigz, please read the README file in the source code distribution. You can read the pigz manual page here.

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.

Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

neercs is a work-in-progress libcaca project.

Like GNU screen, it allows you to detach a session from a terminal, but provides unique features:

* Grabbing a process that you forgot to start inside neercs
* Great screensaver
* 3D rotating cube to switch between full screen terms
* Real time thumbnails of your shells
* Special effects when closing a window
* Various window layouts...

neercs was written by Sam Hocevar, Jean-Yves Lamoureux and Pascal Terjan. It is free software, and can be used, modified and distributed under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License.

IDLWAVE is an add-on mode for GNU Emacs and XEmacs which enables feature-rich development and interaction with IDL®, the Interactive Data Language, produced by ITT Visual Information Solutions. It provides a compelling, full-featured alternative to the IDLDE development environment bundled with IDL.

Here are some things I wrote for my own use that work fine for my purposes. Your mileage may vary. They have only been (so far) tested under Linux.

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.

Ubuntu on PPC

Ein kluger Mann hat deshalb einmal gesagt Man muss nicht alles wissen, man muss nur wissen wo es steht. Die folgende Liste enthält die wichtigsten Cheat Sheets Ajax...

PuTTY Connection Manager is a windows PuTTY tool to manage multiple PuTTY instances using tabs in a single window

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used. They are in no particular order. My favorite is mkfifo.