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mem.py

2009-05-20

freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, Python software, software with Git repositories, utilities

Software >
Testing Linux software speed and memory costs >

https://github.com/maxzheng/memory-tools/blob/master/memorytools/show_mem.py

Determine the memory use of a program.

Reportedly more accurate than Ganglia.

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Software > Search >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

“The GNU Find Utilities” is one of those packages that’s installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.

aka GNU Find Utilities

MoBlock

2009-05-17

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

Software >
Internet >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/moblock.berlios/
https://www.berlios.de/software/moblock/ ^[ 1 ] was http://moblock.berlios.de/

A linux console application that blocks connections from/to hosts listed in a file in peerguardian format (guarding.p2p and p2p.p2b) or ipfilter.dat files. It uses iptables libnetfilter_queue userspace library and NFQUEUE kernel module.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was http://moblock.berlios.de/

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Desktop Data Manager

2009-05-17

commandline software, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, screenshot software, software

Software >
(Screenshot)

http://data-manager.sourceforge.net/

Clipboard manager
Screenshot app
Download helper

–

aka DDM
Abandoned – As of 2020-07-06, 0.8.11 was released 2008-03-12

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dirwatch

2009-05-16

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

Software > Ruby > Files >

https://web.archive.org/*/www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/

Apparently it requires sqlite – but gem is fucking insane and locks my system up trying to update.

nice -n gem install sqlite

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RSSyl

2009-05-16

Claws Mail, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, RSS, RSS clients, software

Claws Mail >

KDE on Windows

2009-05-15

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, software, stupidity, todo, Windows, Windows software

TODO – make a proper page

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Factor

2009-05-15

commandline software, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, programming languages, software

Software > Programming >

(on Wikipedia)
https://factorcode.org/

Never tried. Noted for interest.

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TODO – add any notes and make a more complete review

Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: claws-mail
https://www.claws-mail.org/ (on Windows)

A light and capable email client.

POP3, POP before SMTP, APOP, IMAP4rev1, IMAP over SSH, IMAP CAPABILITY, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, full OpenPGP support, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.