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(on Wikipedia)
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
Displays sub-directories in a visual format.
open-source software
All posts tagged open-source software
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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A suite of HDD tools.
I find it essential. I think.
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smartctl is the most important component for me.
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was willwap.co.uk (gone as of 2016-03-31)
Corrects busted VBR records in MP3s.
I most notably use this program with my rip-audio-from-video.sh script
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Abandoned?
- I can’t find a home page.
- Debian reports this program as orphaned – https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vbrfix
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://lame.sourceforge.io/
An MP3 transcoder.
This has been an essential part of my toolkit for as long as I’ve had CDs. These days I use it primarily to convert various other audio formats to MP3.
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my rip-audio-from-video.sh script uses
lame.
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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim
Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.
I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing
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Software > Revision control systems >
(on Wikipedia)
https://subversion.apache.org/
A version control system.
svn-
On windows I would usually use https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
this needs to be cleaned up
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(on Wikipedia)
https://git-scm.com/
A version control system of some note.
I use it, not that I know what I’m doing.
See also:
- My git repository for git scripts
- Git on Windows
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tig (text-mode interface for git)
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/
An archival program.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://ffmpeg.org/
A suite of tools to diddle with multimedia stuff and things.
It’s mandatory to have in my toolkit.
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