“groovy mother...”

Digg for stupid bash tricks. The “^foo^bar” syntax is new to me, and looks wicked handy.

Excellent Unix tool which watches for attacks on ssh and blocks malicious hosts from connecting. I’ve only just found that it has a “synchronization” mode which shares the knowledge of evil hosts. Installed on all my servers.

Wine for OS X and Linux especially designed to play graphically-intensive Windows games. The Orange Box and its contents are supported, and Audio-Surf ran OK for me, with some minor resolution-based oddness. Not sure it’s worth $40, though, when I can just reboot to Boot Camp.

The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.

“Ext3cow is an open-source, versioning file system based on ext3. It provides a time-shifting interface that allows a real-time and continuous view of the past. This allows users to access their file system as it appeared at any point in time.”

Open source Guitar Hero-a-like.

Good to know — how to cleanly reboot a frozen Linux box when you can’t even get it to give you a terminal prompt.

Open source Worms-a-like. Far too many of my student hours were taken up playing “Worms 2” against my flatmates. Admittedly, most of that time was taken up by giggling as we named our worms things like “Sean Is A Virgin” and “Jim’s Cock”, but I think the game was fun too.

Truly excellent open-source Bust-a-Move clone hits 2.0. Features, oh yes, internet multiplayer mode. My productivity hits new lows. (No Windows or OSX port yet, but hopefully only a matter of time)

Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.

More in-depth screen-fu from the Gentoo Wiki. screen is now officially my favourite Linux utility EVER! (of the week).

A little screen-fu — I didn’t realise that one screen session could encompass multiple screens.

“I nearly switched to Ubuntu when Mark did…” hee.

Manoman is this handy. Boot up off the live CD and repartition your hard drive on the fly without losing data. It’s like PartitionMagic, but free, free and it doesn’t corrupt your data!

Free but not-free tool for system monitoring. Looks like a usable alternative to Nagios.

Cross-platform mountable network file-system storing your precious data with Amazon’s S3 service.

Cool. I’d been looking for a simple Linux monitoring tool like this a few weeks ago — Something simple that can plot load over time.

Jeepers, this is a cool hack. VT100-emulator running in Javascript over AJAX to allow you to remote-control a server over HTTP.