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Bandwidth monitor NG

Bandwidth Monitor NG is a small and simple console-based live network and disk io bandwidth monitor for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and others.
So it is very useful to display current ethernet interfaces stats with this top like.


RPM package is present into the EPEL repo or you can download sources from the source forge web page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwmng/


Here is the features list of bwm-ng:

• supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat, /proc/diskstats /proc/partitions, IOKit, devstat and libstatgrab
• unlimited number of interfaces/devices supported
• interfaces/devices are added or removed dynamically from list
• white-/blacklist of interfaces/devices
• output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
• output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
• configfile

Short list of changes since 0.5 (for full list read changelog):

• curses2 output, a nice bar chart
• disk input for bsd/macosx/linux/solaris
• win32 network bandwidth support
• moved to autotools
• alot fixes

Website: http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects&sub=bwm-ng

Chive project

Here is an interesting and beautiful alternative to the famous PhpMyAdmin that permits web-based MySQL administration in a very easy way.

Chive is distributed by the fusonic austrian team and is actually in version 1.0.2
The install is babyish, the chive interface is available in less of one minute ...
The highlight of this project is syntax editors with colored accentuation for SQL queries.
So try it and have fun !

http://www.chive-project.com/

Mesurer la vitesse de chargement des pages des sites Web

Article très intéressant concernant les outils existants en ligne pour mesurer la vitesse de chargement des pages sur les sites Web.

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PHP MySQLDump Browser

Very interesting project that permit users/system admins to browse through MySQL Database Backups (Dump Files).

PHP MySQLDump Browser

10 essential MySQL tools for admins, toi aussi administre Mysql au top !

10 essential MySQL tools for admins, toi aussi administre Mysql au top !

WeatherSpect

Another cool tools for geeks: WeatherSpect. Distributed on Robobunny website (same as ASCIIQuarium).

This program uses weather data supplied by the Weather::Underground module to create an ASCII animation that simulates the weather. There is also a large number of random creatures and objects that walk across this screen.
Install the prerequisites if you haven't already done (for CentOS distro as usual):

cpan install Term::Animation
yum install -y perl-Curses

Install WeatherSpect:

cd /downloads/
wget http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/weatherspect.tar.gz
tar -xvzf weatherspect.tar.gz
cd weatherspect_v1.9/
chmod 755 weatherspect
cp weatherspect /usr/bin/
cd ~

Generate config file:

[root@ygwane ~]$ weatherspect -c
Accepted formats for location:
        Zipcode
        City
        City, State
        State
        City, Country
        Country
Your Location: Apt, France
Temperature ( (C)elsius, (F)ahrenheit, (B)oth ) [B] C
Wind Speed ( (K)PH, (M)PH, (B)oth ) [B] K
Creating config file in /root/.weatherspect...

It's possible to change your location (and some others features) by editing the config file /root/.weatherspect ...

Now have fun ! (press 'q' for quit)

weatherspect

We can have a weather report by pressing 'w' (press again 'w' to close the report)

Screenshot:

Website: http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/

ASCIIQuarium

For all geeks who are searching funny and useless tools, I wanna show you the better one for me: ASCIIQuarium ...
This is an ascii aquarium screensaver for Linux terminals that permits to: "Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!"

First we have to install the prerequisites (for CentOS distro as usual):

cpan install Term::Animation
yum install -y perl-Curses

Then, we can install ASCIIQuarium:

cd /downloads
wget http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
tar -xvzf asciiquarium.tar.gz
cd asciiquarium_1.0/
chmod 755 asciiquarium
cp asciiquarium /usr/bin/
cd ~

Woaw ! The sysadmins will be able to relax with this beautiful fish tank henceforth ...

asciiquarium

Screenshot:

Website: http://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/

Speedometer

Here is an interesting project that permits to display and measure the rate of data across a network connection or data being stored in a file. This tool is named Speedometer. He needs python 2.6 (or higher) to operate.
We're gonna see how to install it and use it. It's really easy !

For Debian based distros, simply launch:

apt-get install speedometer

For others distros (like us with CentOS), We first have to download and install Urwid:

cd /downloads
wget http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf urwid-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd urwid-1.0.1
python setup.py install

Then we can install Speedometer like this:

cd /downloads
wget http://excess.org/speedometer/speedometer-2.8.tar.gz
tar -xvzf speedometer-2.8.tar.gz
cp speedometer.py /usr/local/bin/speedometer
chown root: /usr/local/bin/speedometer
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/speedometer

That's all ! Now, let's see the help command of this little tool:

[root@localhost ~]$ speedometer
Usage: speedometer [options] tap [[-c] tap]...
Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer.  At least one
tap must be entered.  -c starts a new column, otherwise taps are piled
vertically.

Taps:
  -f filename [size]          display download speed [with progress bar]
  -r network-interface        display bytes received on network-interface
  -t network-interface        display bytes transmitted on network-interface
  -c                          start a new column for following tap arguments

Options:
  -b                          use old blocky display instead of smoothed
                              display even when UTF-8 encoding is detected
                              (use this if you see strange characters)
  -i interval-in-seconds      eg. "5" or "0.25"   default: "1"
  -k (1|16|88|256)            set the number of colors this terminal
                              supports (default 16)
  -l                          use linear charts instead of logarithmic
                              you will VERY LIKELY want to set -m as well
  -m chart-maximum            set the maximum bytes/second displayed on
                              the chart (default 2^32)
  -n chart-minimum            set the minimum bytes/second displayed on
                              the chart (default 32)
  -p                          use original plain-text display (one tap only)
  -s                          use bits/s instead of bytes/s
  -x                          exit when files reach their expected size
  -z                          report zero size on files that don't exist
                              instead of waiting for them to be created

Note: -rx and -tx are accepted as aliases for -r and -t for compatibility
with earlier releases of speedometer.  -f may be also omitted for similar
reasons.

Python Version: 2.7
Urwid >= 0.9.9.1 detected: yes  UTF-8 encoding detected: yes

To display live RX traffic on eth0 network interface, simply launch (press 'q' to quit):

speedometer -rx eth0

To display live TX traffic on eth0 network interface, launch:

speedometer -tx eth0

Here's some usage examples given on Speedometer Web page:

How long it will take for my 38MB transfer to finish?

speedometer favorite_episode.rm $((38*1024*1024))

How quickly is another transfer going?

speedometer dl/big.avi

How fast is this LAN?

host-a$ cat /dev/zero | nc -l -p 12345

host-b$ nc host-a 12345 > /dev/null 
host-b$ speedometer -rx eth0

How fast is the upstream on this ADSL line? (start an upload first)

speedometer -tx ppp0

How fast can I write data to my filesystem? (with at least 1GB free)

dd bs=1000000 count=1000 if=/dev/zero of=big_nothing &
speedometer big_nothing

To finish, let me show you some screenshots that we can see on Speedometer Web page:

Link to Speedometer Web page: http://excess.org/speedometer/

10 PHP Tutorials For Beginners, Tips & Tricks

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