threedaymonk + linux 193
Jupiter Applet
7 days ago by threedaymonk
‘Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux. It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.’
linux
power
battery
7 days ago by threedaymonk
Why Linux
21 days ago by threedaymonk
‘I realize I’ve spent far more down-time un-fucking b0rked packages [on OS X] than I ever did trying to get Linux to talk to my wifi card.’
linux
osx
21 days ago by threedaymonk
Shearing FireSheep with the Cloud | Stratum Security Blog
4 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Instructions for setting up your own VPN.
vpn
ec2
aws
security
linux
4 weeks ago by threedaymonk
stormfs
5 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Mount S3 (and similar) as a local filesystem using FUSE.
fuse
linux
s3
filesystem
5 weeks ago by threedaymonk
ZFS on Linux
6 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Reported to work very well, although you must compile it yourself as the ZFS and Linux licences prohibit distribution of compiled binaries.
linux
zfs
filesystem
6 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Ruby 1.9.3 with patches, ready packaged.
linux
ruby
ubuntu
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Tomahawk
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Open-source, cross-platform music player that can play music from a variety of sources, including Spotify, YouTube, etc.
music
player
audio
mp3
linux
software
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Mosh: the mobile shell
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
‘Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.‘ Works over SSH in a terminal.
ssh
unix
linux
terminal
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
HOWTO: NFS Server/Client
december 2011 by threedaymonk
Simple instructions that work.
linux
nfs
ubuntu
december 2011 by threedaymonk
Trimage (lossless) image compressor
november 2011 by threedaymonk
‘A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.’
compression
images
linux
november 2011 by threedaymonk
xcursorclamp
october 2011 by threedaymonk
‘clamps the cursor to visible regions (CRTCs) of the virtual screen.’
linux
x11
xorg
mouse
cursor
october 2011 by threedaymonk
Optimizing TCP slow start
october 2011 by threedaymonk
Speed up transfers on Linux by tweaking the initial receiver and congestion window sizes (without a kernel patch).
linux
network
webdev
october 2011 by threedaymonk
lsof
october 2011 by threedaymonk
How to find all kinds of information with lsof.
unix
linux
network
october 2011 by threedaymonk
BrowserLinux
september 2011 by threedaymonk
‘BrowserLinux is a fast and small (93 Mb!) Linux distribution for surfing the web.’
linux
internet
browser
distribution
september 2011 by threedaymonk
Learning Unix
september 2011 by threedaymonk
Miguel de Icaza’s recommendations on books to improve Unix skills.
programming
unix
linux
reference
education
september 2011 by threedaymonk
lessfs
august 2011 by threedaymonk
‘A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux.’
filesystem
compression
linux
backups
august 2011 by threedaymonk
EC2StartersGuide
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Good general introduction to using EC2 command-line tools on Ubuntu.
amazon
aws
ec2
ubuntu
linux
august 2011 by threedaymonk
EFIKA MX Smarttop
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Tiny, cheap, low-power ARM computer running Ubuntu. Has graphics acceleration & HDMI output
linux
ubuntu
arm
computer
august 2011 by threedaymonk
TunesViewer
august 2011 by threedaymonk
‘TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access itunes-university media and podcasts in Linux.’
itunes
linux
podcast
education
august 2011 by threedaymonk
The Leading Cause Of The Recent Linux Kernel Power Problems
june 2011 by threedaymonk
Phoronix finds the problem and a solution with a test rig, a power meter, and git-bisect.
linux
power
kernel
june 2011 by threedaymonk
s3ql - a full-featured file system for online data storage
april 2011 by threedaymonk
‘S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online. It supports Amazon S3 as well as arbitrary SFTP servers and effectively provides you with a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with internet access.’
aws
s3
backup
filesystem
fuse
linux
april 2011 by threedaymonk
Why OS X just doesn’t cut it
april 2011 by threedaymonk
Someone else who, like me, was frustrated developing under OS X and who switched to Linux.
linux
osx
gui
development
april 2011 by threedaymonk
A Tarsnap-Alike for Private Storage
march 2011 by threedaymonk
‘ddar is an open source userspace de-duplicating archiver for Unix.’
backup
unix
linux
archive
march 2011 by threedaymonk
HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoders in FFmpeg
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Because I don’t care about unenforceable software patents, and nor should you.
ubuntu
audio
video
ffmpeg
linux
patents
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Buildroot
january 2011 by threedaymonk
‘Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image.’
linux
embedded
development
compiler
toolchain
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Booting ISO images from within GRUB2
january 2011 by threedaymonk
There’s no need to burn a disk or make a USB boot key if you've got a working system already.
linux
iso
installation
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Prey
january 2011 by threedaymonk
An open-source anti-theft tracking system for laptops and mobile phones. Works with Linux and Android.
security
android
linux
tracking
january 2011 by threedaymonk
WMFS
december 2010 by threedaymonk
‘[Window Manager From Scratch] is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X.’
x11
xorg
linux
window-manager
december 2010 by threedaymonk
Add latency to localhost
december 2010 by threedaymonk
A good trick for testing.
network
webdev
unix
linux
december 2010 by threedaymonk
avahi-alias
november 2010 by threedaymonk
Publish multiple domain names via Avahi/mDNS.
avahi
dns
mdns
linux
november 2010 by threedaymonk
darktable
july 2010 by threedaymonk
‘darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.’ A Linux equivalent to Aperture or Lightroom.
photography
linux
graphics
july 2010 by threedaymonk
Aleutia
june 2010 by threedaymonk
Low power, low cost computers that come with Ubuntu installed.
computer
linux
ubuntu
environment
june 2010 by threedaymonk
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart
may 2010 by threedaymonk
‘The chart below shows all available netbooks that, to our knowledge, will natively run Mac OS X.’ Might also be a good indicator of which devices have common hardware.
osx
netbook
hackintosh
linux
may 2010 by threedaymonk
Jacob has a new computer — and a favorite shell
april 2010 by threedaymonk
Three and a half year olds can use the command line!
linux
unix
cli
computer
education
children
april 2010 by threedaymonk
Simtec Electronics Entropy Key
march 2010 by threedaymonk
Cheap hardware entropy generator.
cryptography
encryption
hardware
linux
usb
entropy
march 2010 by threedaymonk
Linenoise
march 2010 by threedaymonk
‘A minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement.’
unix
linux
cli
readline
library
march 2010 by threedaymonk
EPEL
january 2010 by threedaymonk
‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.’
linux
sysadmin
redhat
rhel
epel
centos
rpm
repository
january 2010 by threedaymonk
lockrun - Run cron job with overrun protection
november 2009 by threedaymonk
‘Before launching the given command, it insures that another instance of the same command is not already running.’
unix
linux
sysadmin
cron
november 2009 by threedaymonk
Bug 592665 – Apple.com blocking of gstreamer
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Apple.com only serves video if the user agent identifies itself as Quicktime. Pretty evil in my opinion.
apple
linux
quicktime
video
evil
august 2009 by threedaymonk
OpenInkpot
august 2009 by threedaymonk
‘OpenInkpot is a free and open-source Linux distribution for eink-based devices.’
linux
ebooks
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Caffeine: Not Just for Beverages Anymore
june 2009 by threedaymonk
Linux utility to prevent the screensaver, either based on user choice or on currently running programs.
linux
ubuntu
screen
screensaver
june 2009 by threedaymonk
Fritzing
may 2009 by threedaymonk
An open-source, cross-platform software tool that ‘allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, and to create a PCB layout for manufacturing.’
electronics
diy
hardware
software
microcontroller
opensource
linux
windows
osx
arduino
pcb
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Alestic.com
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for Amazon EC2
amazon
ec2
sysadmin
ubuntu
debian
linux
ami
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Elisa, the free media player
may 2009 by threedaymonk
‘Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.’
linux
windows
opensource
free
video
htpc
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 on your Mac
april 2009 by threedaymonk
... Or on any platform with VirtualBox.
webdev
linux
osx
windows
ie6
ie7
ie8
virtualisation
virtualbox
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Cross GCC on Mac OS X
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Compile for Windows/Linux from OS X.
programming
compiler
crosscompiler
osx
windows
linux
gcc
april 2009 by threedaymonk
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