glances

I had used this for a while, but using something like it is a bit frustrating for me. It’s rarely updated and is lacking a number of convenience features.

I was thinking of hacking some solutions to my grievances when I just got frustrated and dumped it to try Deluge again.

Abandoned: As of 2019-11-21, version 0.3.18 was released on 2006-12-24.

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MediaWiki meta extension

2009-03-20

freeware, glances, GUI software, MediaWiki extensions, open-source software, PHP software, software

Software > MediaWiki > MediaWiki extensions >

http://www.supernifty.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Mediawiki_meta_extension

See:

MediaWiki SEO

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PathConvert

2009-03-18

BSD software, commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > ln >

https://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert.html

This is old stuff, but I wanted to check it out nonetheless.

Adding a relative path flag to ln.

Doesn’t seem to work.

2017-01-19 update – This was adopted into the FreeBSD core as of 2016-11-23. Yay!

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locate

2009-03-17

commandline software, dead, disliked, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Search >

(on Wikipedia)

Maintains a database for easy filename finding. Part of findutils.

I don’t like this idea at all; it presents one single point of attack to get the knowledge of the filesystem(s). This is also installed by default on so many systems, so I uninstall it and delete its database because that gets left after uninstallation!

Use slocate

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Berkeley Automounter

2009-03-17

commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, mount, open-source software, software, utilities

Software > mount >

(on Wikipedia)
http://am-utils.org/

Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives.

You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.

Incomprehensible documentation.