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SliTaz - Like Knoppix on a serious diet #
SliTaz 1.0 - Small (24.8MB) Linux-based Live CD / Live USB device that runs completely in memory. Features include web server (LightTPD), Mozilla Firefox, GParted, SSH client/server, hard drive installer, and much more.
/nix | Apr 15, 2008
Undelete for ext3 #Carlo Wood has crafted an undelete for ext3. It was built in response to an accidental rm -rf, and recovered all desired data. At the moment, you can email him for the source code (released under the GPL) as well as take part in the discussion.
/nix | Mar 13, 2008
Knoppix and dd_rhelp to the rescue! #Yet another item added to the burgeoning ;-) Docs section: Imaging a corrupt hard drive
/nix | Feb 24, 2008
Delete empty directories recursively #A tiny Windows app for this purpose was mentioned a few years ago, but here are the Linux and OS X commands to recursively delete empty directories below the current one (use at your own risk, as the slightest mistake WILL destroy all of your data):
Linux:
find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;OS X:
find ./ -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
/nix | Nov 07, 2007
Slicehost: Best hosting on the planet #Slicehost offers simplicity, power, and a crazy clean UI. I haven't enjoyed tech this much since BeOS.
/nix | Aug 22, 2007
Command line feed readers #Feed readers for the console crew:
- newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. It is designed to run Unix-like operating systems such as Linux.
- Olive is a console-based newsreader, written in Perl and using Curses::UI as its toolkit. The big difference between Olive and other newsreaders is that it takes a time-centric as opposed to site-centric view of newsfeeds. Olive shows you news stories from all your feeds at once, arranged in a continuum.
- Raggle is a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, and more.
- rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser to read RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, CDF and Atom feeds. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order.
- Snownews - Text mode RSS newsreader for Linux and Unix.
- TheYoke is an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line.
UPDATE: I have made a custom style for Vienna that hides images, embedded objects, iframes, annoying "digg it" buttons, etc., and approximates the look of this blog (screenshot | download). Combined with Vienna's Smart Folder feature (to browse the latest stories from all feeds at once), it makes my daily read much faster.
/nix | Aug 17, 2007
txt2tags - A clean and simple document generator #While searching for technical book writing software (which turned up the usual suspects: DocBook, FrameMaker, MS Word, LaTeX, Help & Manual, etc.), I stumbled upon a hidden treasure - txt2tags. It is a document generator geared more towards webpages than books, but does a beautiful job of converting plain text with simple markup to the following formats:
- HTML
- XHTML
- SGML
- LaTeX
- Lout
- Man page
- MoinMoin
- MagicPoint
- PageMaker
/nix | Aug 15, 2007
Klaus Knopper (creator of Knoppix) request #I've been chatting with Klaus recently, and he has the following question:
"I'm working on a Linux-based network boot console that can automatically restore operating system partitions with multicasted archive from a server. For this, I have tried to keep all programs as small as possible, but currently, I'm already at 12MB (compressed), which takes a lot of time to decompress on an old computer (about 8 seconds, goal is 4 seconds). I'm still searching for a way to get the Qt-based embedded GUI smaller. But C++ apps seem to need a lot of bloated libraries. Maybe you have an idea how to get this smaller."If you can help, please email him directly at: knopper AT knopper DOT net. Thanks.
/nix | May 11, 2007
Knoppix - A great thing just keeps getting greater. #It's hard to believe that it has been almost five years since Knoppix was first mentioned in this space. There has been an explosion of Live CDs since then, but Knoppix always manages to stay several steps ahead of the competition. Features I've recently noticed and appreciated:
- Wide RAID support (Why is Windows so far behind here?)
- Automatic mounting of external drives, even after booting
- Transparent read/write access for NTFS volumes
- This one's been around forever, but I love it: all drives are mounted as read-only, but can easily be made writable from the context (right click) menu.
/nix | May 09, 2007
Two files in the same directory with the exact same name?! #What's up with this?
Let's find out: ls | od -a reveals:
Doh! Missed that space after the filename extension. (Thanks to Mssrs. Edgar Holmann & Tom Ivar Helbekkmo who posted to this thread back in 1990.)
/nix | Jul 14, 2006
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