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Computing
Software - GNU/Linux Software Projects
| Software | Linux | Legacy |
Listed below are some of the projects I have worked on or have packaged to make life a little easier. Debian/Ubuntu users may add the following APT repository to their sources.list if they wish:
deb http://debian.russecke.net/ ./ deb-src http://debian.russecke.net/ ./
You may also browse the packages here.
Software
- notifier-applet - display notfication messages from UDP packets on the GNOME panel.
- site-upload - quickly upload website changes from the command line.
- SimpleWXR - import posts into WordPress using a simplified WXR XML format.
- helper-scripts - a set of tools to help with the maintenance of Debian-based system.
- synctree - a tool to synchronize two directory trees based on a set of rules.
- bup - yet another easy to use backup tool.
Packages
- lirc-modules - updated LIRC modules packages.
- keyspan - kernel module Debian packages for Keyspan USB to serial converters.
- nedit - my preferred graphical text editor.
- xbox - packages for the Microsoft Xbox.
- misterhouse - a home automation program written in Perl.
- sorune - a tool used to manage the database on the Neuros Audio player.
- cats2procmailrc - a tool generate a procmail recipe from a simple, human readable mail categories file.
bup
Posted on March 30, 2005.
bup is a backup and restore tool that uses tar to create archives. The archives are automatically named and split into 1GB chunks to accomodate any file system. The archives are optionally compressed using bzip2. It is essentially another wrapper for tar, which can be a pain when the backups are large. I haven't found one that is as easy to use as this one (at least for me). I do all my backups to a remote machine with a removeable hard drive bay via NFS.
Packages
subversion-helper-scripts 0.5-2
Posted on March 22, 2005.
Version 0.5-2 of subversion-helper-scripts has been released. This is a bug fix update to the initial public release, which includes an example global config file.
Sorune
Posted on March 22, 2005.
Sorune is a tool written in Perl by Darren Smith. It is used to manage the database on the Neuros Audio player. Features include:
- A simple GUI that makes management easy (requires Perl Tk).
- All music formats are supported (mp3, ogg, wav, wma(non-drm)). All native file tags are supported.
- Full m3u playlist support.
- Database rebuild support.
- Tagging by directory layout.
- Sort by title on artists, genres, songs and recordings. Sort by track number on albums.
- Maintains directory/file names as well as file access/modification times during sync.
- Moving of recordings to user specified directory.
- Foreign language accents in tags are handled (converted to the nearest English equivalent).
- Handling of duplicate title names. Appends a number in parenthesis "(2)" or "(3)" to the title.
- Sub-menu support.
- Various artist support.Separate binary from libraries.
See the man page for more information.
Packages
The latest beta release:
Latest stable release:
Changes from Original Source
- Separate binary from libraries.
- Fix native library include path.
- Created man page.
cats2procmailrc
Posted on October 11, 2004.
cats2procmailrc is a tool written in Perl by Cameron Simpson. It reads a human friendly mail category description file and emits a matching procmail recipe to implement it. The intent is to have an extremely succinct file of easily editable one line rules, generally of the form:
folder tag pattern
See the man page for more information.
Packages
Changes from Original Source
- Add missing -T option implementation.
- Disable double quote stripping for maildirs.
PureDigital Single Use Camera Support for gphoto
Posted on November 25, 2003.
I have taken John Maushammer's gphoto changes and have rebuilt the gphoto2-2.3.1 and libgphoto2-2.3.1 Debian packages. They are available here:
