View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
okram n00b
Joined: 06 Aug 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Taipei, Taiwan
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:14 am Post subject: |
|
|
I remember using a small program that you could start on two computers on a LAN so that one could "connect" to a terminal session running on the other computer and share input/output. Basically, each of you could see exactly what the other person was typing and whatever output the commands produced, including, if I remember correctly, output from gui things. (Think shared browsing with mozilla...)
However, I have no idea what it was called; can't google it and am no longer sure it wasn't all just a dream. Anyone know this? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
hook Veteran
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 1398 Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
an app that i missed so much i compiled it from source (not in portage) the second day i used gentoo workman
...there are two parts of workman:
- workman itself - a simple, small, yet nice cd-player for X
- and workbone - a simple, gui-ish, console cd-player
...i use workbone so often i would go mad without _________________ tea+free software+law=hook
(deep inside i'm still a tux's little helper) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
aardvark Guru
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
ghetto wrote: | Has anyone mentioned UFED?
The Gentoo Linux Use Flags EDitor.
I find it pretty handy but maybe its just me. |
Waaaaaah, WOOOT, Just what I was looking for . This should be a standard feature of portage man! Just great!!
gets it for you!
P.S.: I don't know what "WOOOT" is but I saw it float by several times, seemingly as an expression of utter delightment and thus decided to use it too...
About my fav apps:
Celestia: Hours of fun exploring the galaxies
avidemux: virtualdub for linux!
Sylpheed-claws: the only one faster than and comparable to MSOExpress (washing my mouth now )
Mc: the app I use most (why isn't it on the live cd?)
Gqview: Wow cool, It simply works!
PAN: Very full featured newsreader
Funny how my fav apps are non-kde whereas I am a fanatic kde user. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
T2 n00b
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Slovenia
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
MuPAD - Computer Algebra System, like Mathematica, Derive, Mapple... If you need such tool for visualising and cracking math problems go for it. You can get light version for free here if you use it for your private work. Read the license and register for free to get password that removes memory limit.
http://www.mupad.de/schule+studium/download/index.shtml |
|
Back to top |
|
|
T2 n00b
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Slovenia
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Btw I really like this topic, maybe we should post periodically what piece of software we like or how we perform some tasks efficiently.
I use: gentoo blackbox, phoenix, sylpheed, licq/ickle, gkrellm, gentoo fm, xcdroast, gftp, aterm, downloader for X, blackdown jdk, gv, and occasionally some other stuff. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
snowmoon n00b
Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 64 Location: Albany,NY USA
|
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Extremely useful security tool that's built for ext2/3 FS's that's been there forever....
lsattr/chattr
Allows you to set and modify filesystem level permissions that can make a file unchangable even by root ( untill reset ). Very handy to have a chattr -R +i /usr/* |
|
Back to top |
|
|
mihochan Apprentice
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 296 Location: Melbourne again
|
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've plugged it before, but for my money you can't beat haskell, a lazy functional language.
Tom _________________ In the long run we are all dead - Keynes |
|
Back to top |
|
|
sessionID Apprentice
Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 266 Location: hungary
|
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
If You have to install something from source that is not in portage, You'll find make uninstall very useful.
It will remember all files the "make install" have put in the system, and You can remove all files of a package with one click.. + lots more.
Get Your free copy from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/package/. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
sessionID Apprentice
Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 266 Location: hungary
|
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
[A very small and can't-live-without app is MSS - Mozilla starter script - http://kingant.net/?p=mss] |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Carlo Developer
Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
watersb Apprentice
Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 297 Location: take a left turn in Tesuque
|
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
charlieg wrote: |
Celestia is nice, although there are a few issues with it regarding some kinda automatic tour (if there is one I couldn't find it) and the behaviour of the object go-to (it speeds up but doesn't slow down, rather just 'stopping' at it's destination which is a little unelegant).
|
I think that the 'stopping' behaivor is simply CPU stutter. Well, I think so on my PIII laptop. I notice that Celestia performance under Windows is much more smooth.; although as of mid-December, the nVidia drivers claim to work from a common source base -- and I get much better Linux performance with the most-recent driver -- it's not 100% there yet. And we can't help them, as it's a closed-source driver...
charlieg wrote: |
If you're going to plug X-Plane (propietry, btw), I'm sorry but I have to plug (the very open source) FlightGear which really has potential and Racer which is effectively open source but not yet in portage.
|
OK... X-Plane is not open-source, but it's the best flight sim I've ever used, and has an active, supportive community of follow-on developers (think Quake mods). They use the GCC toolchain to develop the thing, so a Linux version would be nice.
Racer... Holy Cow, that's a screen shot... and I was wondering, "Why did this guy put a photo of his car in his post?" |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Malakin Veteran
Joined: 14 Apr 2002 Posts: 1692 Location: Victoria BC Canada
|
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Definitely one of the most overlooked packages. With pornview you can quickly jump between videos just by clicking on the thumbnail and they will instantly play without having to close the old video window (using xine). Pornviews image viewer abilities are also better then any other open source image viewer, similar to gqview but a little better. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
|
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 3:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
I just have to say I stumbled across this thread, and it's been one of the MOST informative threads I've ran across on this message board. There are so many apps I haven't ever heard of, and games especially thanks for all the tips! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
crichards n00b
Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 32
|
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 4:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
MzScheme is a great implementation of Scheme. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp, and is very nice. Its in Portage now.
wxGlade is fairly new, and its for designing wxWindows dialogs in a Glade-like interface. It doesn't share a line of code with Glade. Not in Portage. wxglade.sf.net _________________ KDE | Qt | Python |
|
Back to top |
|
|
sessionID Apprentice
Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 266 Location: hungary
|
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
If you wanna organize small notes, ideas, coding ticks that you'll regret to forget etc.:
TuxCards
...but even better:
KnowIt
[or maybe gjots or Gringotts <- this one supports encryption ] |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
|
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Don't need one, use AIDE, which is Open Source, even for commercial use.
Code: |
~$ emerge -s aide
* app-admin/aide
Latest version available: 0.9
Latest version installed: 0.9
Size of downloaded files: 211 kB
Homepage: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
Description: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a free replacement for Tripwire
|
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html |
|
Back to top |
|
|
quag7 Apprentice
Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 288 Location: Marana, Arizona - USA
|
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
NEdit - This text editor handles larger files than any other X editor I have on my system including the massive, sprawling Apache logs I often have to review. It also has Syntax highlighting for more than a dozen languages; I just added PHP.
Definitely my favorite text editor so far. It's in portage. _________________ http://www.dataswamp.net |
|
Back to top |
|
|
zypher Retired Dev
Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 416 Location: Cologne, ger.
|
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hmmm I will try NEdit, that's for sure.
But I'd like to know if you can lead scite to it's limits concerning filesize.
I'ts in portage (I mentioned it on page 1 of this thread). It has highlighting and so on and it's pretty fast. _________________ linux user 65882 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lovechild Advocate
Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 2858 Location: Århus, Denmark
|
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
PySol, which is in Portage already... otherwise known as "the Mother converter" since that program alone converted my mother to Linux (it's +200 solitare games.. what more do we need?)
Hell that gamepack even got my gf hooked, and some of her classmates.. it's sicking to think of all the hours which are wasted on solitare gaming on computers really. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
charlieg Advocate
Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 2149 Location: Manchester UK
|
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:02 am Post subject: Listen up y'all |
|
|
I have an absolute GEM
MultiZilla is the way the Mozilla interface should be.
It's absolutely AWESOME. I really can't stress how handy it is and how many ANNOYING features of Mozilla's interface it solves...
eg middle click bookmarks to open them in a new tab, view source works with tabs, just check out the feature list. _________________ Want Free games?
Free Gamer - open source games list & commentary
Open source web-enabled rich UI platform: Vexi |
|
Back to top |
|
|
BoBB Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 143 Location: Mesa, AZ
|
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Feh - An imlib2 image viewer, really fast and packed with features. http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ ... its also in portage.
Colortail - its tail but supports color via vonfig files, you create regexp's to parse the log file for color. Its very powerful as you can imagine, I had a slight problem with documentation but it only took be about a day to learn how to use it and i knew nothing about regexp's The home page is http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html and its also in protage. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
ghetto Guru
Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada
|
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
* app-arch/guitar
Latest version available: 0.1.4
Latest version installed: 0.1.4
Size of downloaded files: 121 kB
Homepage: http://artemis.efes.net/disq/guitar/
Description: Extraction tool, supports the tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, tar.bz2, lha, lzh, rar, arj, zip, and slp formats.
great great great.. quick, lightweight, ..it works.
just thought id mention what im using atm:
metacity (used to use flux, but now i just put metacity in .xinitrc)
rox
guitar
gkerllm2
idesk (gentoo icon set)
xcdroast
evolution(i wish sylpheed looked nicer and came with a calendar)
xchat (anyone know something better/lighter ?)
grip
phoenix-cvs (pinball theme)
gnome-terminal (lets me do tabs)
xsane
amsn
cups
glimmer
abiword
apache mod_perl mod_php mod_ssl (and im trying to write up and ebuild for mod_asp)
(for security its hard to beat good old iptables, but running snort never hurt)
and when i get bored there is always pysol _________________ Blizzard you suck. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
DuF Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Thomas n00b
Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 59
|
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
xyverz wrote: | Quote: | If you like PWM (and you should), you'll love ion. |
I used ION when I worked for Transmeta. (Jr. Sysadmin, in-house tech support) It worked GREAT on my dual-head display. I never did like it much for home use though. In the end, I liked having control over the size of my windows, so I ended up sticking with pwm... |
ever seen Linus? _________________ Toleranz ist die Unfähigkeit, Ja oder Nein zu sagen. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
axxackall l33t
Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 651 Location: Toronto, Ontario, 3rd Rock From Sun
|
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
Thomas wrote: | ever seen Linus? |
Is it the name that does not have enough of attention (see the topic)?
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|