The robotic precision of cron ensures that each subsequent job runs, on time, every time. But cron doesn’t check that the previous execution of that same job completed first — and that can cause big trouble. This often happens to me when I’m traveling and my backup cronjob fires while I’m on a slow up-link. Read more about run-one and run-this-one for Ubuntu – cron helpers[…]
The Dutch government has decided that their data should be open and available for everyone, unless there’s a good reason for it not to be. So they’ve opened a website portal to that data. It’s a bit empty at the moment, but it should fill up with time. Overheid.nl | Open data.
How to add bookmarks to Firefox Navigation bar: 1. step: The bookmarks you want to have on the Navigation bar go into the Bookmarks bar. 2. step: Show both, Bookmarks and Navigation bar. 3. step: activate ‘Customize…’ to customize the Navigation bar. Drag ‘Bookmarks bar Item’ onto the Navigation bar. Close customize. 4. step: Hide Read more about How to add bookmarks to Firefox Navigation Toolbar[…]
An awesome phd program by Zdenek Kalai, very worth watching. Zdenek Kalal | Homepage.
Unlike other data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an all in one data recovery software for home and business user. It can recover deleted data from Windows Recycle Bin, restore lost data even the partition is formatted or deleted, restore data from corrupted hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure. Read more about Power Data Recovery for windows free with a bootdisk version[…]
It’s open source and it’s free and it’s two years running! Vote for the Best Forum Software of 2011 | Forum Software Reviews.
When Facebook moved its servers to HipHop for PHP – the code transformer it built to convert PHP into optimized C++ – the company’s average CPU usage dropped by 50 per cent. And after six months of additional engineering, the tool was about 1.8 times faster. Now, after another six months, the company says, it Read more about HipHop for PHP serves 70% more traffic on same hardware[…]
59 Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software — Datamation.com.
The main features of SDFS are: Cross Platform Support – Works on Linux or Windows. Reduced Storage Utilization – SDFS Deduplication can reduce storage utilization by up to 90%-95% Scalability – SDFS can dedup a Petabyte or more of data. Over 3TB per gig of memory at 128k chunk size. Speed – SDFS can perform Read more about Opendedup – SDFS, a file-system that does inline deduplication for free[…]
PhoneGap allows you to build native apps for the iphone, blackberry, palm, symbian, android platforms.
Fonebook allows you to copy your friends photos (+ a load of other info!) onto your mobile via Microsoft Outlook. Its compatible with any version of phone just so long as you are connected to Outlook. Best of all it has the ability to keep the photos in sync – so you can always have Read more about Fonebook – sync Facebook with Outlook[…]
Powered by Open Street Map, this is a free version of the paid application that turns your PC into a tomtom type device PC Navigator FREE.
This runs as a java applet on your side and also analyses traffic on the university of Berkely servers, giving you a good view of connection problems from both inside and outside of your network. It takes a few minutes to run though. ICSI Netalyzr.
About a year ago, when Facebook set out to build its email-meets-chat-meets-everything-else messaging system, the company knew its infrastructure couldn’t run the thing. “[The Facebook infrastructure] wasn’t really ready to handle a bunch of different forms of messaging and have it happen in real time,” says Joel Seligstein, a Facebook engineer who worked on the Read more about Facebook: Why our ‘next-gen’ comms ditched MySQL[…]
Tribler is a social community that facilitates filesharing through a peer-to-peer (p2p) network. A p2p network is different from a centralised service, where every user downloads his files from one central server. With p2p, the user/downloader is also an uploader to another user. This way, there is no central computer required that provides every file Read more about Tribler – p2p searching[…]
With Sentenza you can compile what we call “webapp”, or “web applications”, for your jailbroken devices. These applications use the content as HTML/CSS/JavaScript. via Sentenza for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad) Jailbroken & Non-Jailbroken Devices.
Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste text to any Read more about PureText[…]
This is a really risky move, as they risk alienating their Gnome supporters as well as all the buggyness that a shift from X (a stable platform) implies. However, they want more scaleability to the portable and phone markets and they can’t do it without building a new interface from the ground up like IOS Read more about Ubuntu Unity moving from X.org to Wayland[…]
Or, if you sync with multiple computers, this should work easily and for free. Works with Mac and PC. MediaRover: Bring Your Family’s iTunes Libraries Together.
Paste your data into it and choose a way to visualise – there are loads of different options. You can also explore the visualisations that have allready been made, also many available. Many Eyes.
Prying OpenOffice development from Oracle’s hands is the Document Foundation, who have rebranded the OpenOffice and are continuing in the way that they think it should go. Welcome to The Document Foundation! – The Document Foundation.
Scrapetorrent is a torrent aggregator, which currently searches 14 sites and removes duplicates as well as checks for verified torrents. Version 3 – ScrapeTorrent.com.
This is a bittorrent site with a penchant for movies and a very nice indexing system
This works on laptops and is very customisable. MouseFIGHTER – mouse free PC !.
Basically it’s a web based virtualbox interface that allows you start or stop virtual machines as well as change their settings. phpvirtualbox – Project Hosting on Google Code.