15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications Of 2012

Nice article on NixCraft:

Linux on the desktop is making great progress. However, the real beauty of Linux and Unix like operating system lies beneath the surface at the command prompt. nixCraft picks his best open source terminal applications of 2012.

Most of the following tools are packaged by all major Linux distributions and can be installed on *BSD or Apple OS X.

Link: http://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/best-terminal-applications-for-linux-unix-macosx/

FlexGet

FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for content like torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, series, movies, etc. It can use different kinds of sources like RSS-feeds, html pages, csv files, search engines and there are even plugins for sites that do not provide any kind of useful feeds.

There are numerous plugins that allow utilizing FlexGet in interesting ways and more are being added continuously.

FlexGet is extremely useful in conjunction with applications which have watch directory support or provide interface for external utilities like FlexGet.

Webpage: http://flexget.com/

Respect your Room: Low Frequency Absorption (Bass Traps) – AbletonOp

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Respect your Room: Broad Band Absorbtion – AbletonOp

Respect your Room: Broad Band Absorbtion – AbletonOp:

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Linux / FreeBSD: PDFCrack A Command Line Password Recovery Tool For PDF Files

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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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