Software architect Kristof Kovacs. Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line.
Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!) Dstat & sar iostat, vmstat, ifstat and much more in one. slurm Visualizes network interface traffic over time. vim & emacs The real programmers' editors. screen, dtach, tmux, byobu Keep your terminal sessions alive. multitail See your log files in separate windows. tpp Presentation ("PowerPoint") tool for terminal. xargs & parallel Executes tasks from input (even multithread). duplicity & rsyncrypto Encrypting backup tools. nethack & slash'em Still the most complex game on the planet. lftp Does FTPS.
Ack, ag (silver searcher), pt A better grep for source code. calcurse & remind + wyrd Calendar systems. newsbeuter & rsstail Command line RSS readers. powertop Helps conserve power on Linux. tig A console UI for git. mtr. Commandlinefu.com. Faceshift: real-time in-game facial expressions using Kinect – Video Games Reviews, Cheats. The EPFL Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory in Switzerland carries out research in a number of areas including computational symmetry, architectural geometry, shape analysis, geometric art, physics-based animations, and performance capture.
It’s that last one we’re interested in today though, as it promises to have a huge impact on video games. The video above shows EPFL’s latest research into performance capture using the Kinect motion controller. It’s called Faceshift, and provides a simple way to translate your own facial expressions on to a game character in real-time. There’s nothing you have to wear for this to happen, just let a Kinect sensor point at your face and the Faceshift system does the hard work. You can see the potential Faceshift has just by thinking about any conversation you’ve ever had with other players in a game. There’s no details on pricing yet. Via The Verge. Screenshots of Roundcube webmail.
SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator About SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations.
It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. We went to WMSCI 2005. Also, check out our 10th anniversary celebration project: SCIpher! Generate a Random Paper Want to generate a random CS paper of your own? SCIgen currently supports Latin-1 characters, but not the full Unicode character set. Examples Here are two papers we submitted to WMSCI 2005: Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy (PS, PDF) Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn This paper was accepted as a "non-reviewed" paper! Talks As promised, we videotaped the whole thing. Code. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications. Why spend thousands or even hundreds or thousands of dollars on a closed source application when you can get a comparable open source app for free?
Even if you need commercial support, many open source programs now offer paid support that costs much less than the alternatives. For this list, we looked for quality, open source alternatives to software that has a reputation for being expensive. Whenever possible, we included MSRPs for the expensive software, though in some cases, the pricing scheme is so complicated that it's nearly impossible to pin down. We published a similar list last year, and we've updated and expanded the list for 2011. If you have suggestions for next year's list, feel free to note them in the comments section below. Accounting 1. 2. 3. 4. Audio Recording/Editing. Download Every File of a Certain Extension on a Site. Leap Motion.