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rexima: Another happy error
I almost forgot to mention this one, in the wake of my embarrassing declaration that rexima was dead. Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. That of course, uses aoss to get it started —...
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renameutils: Underappreciated tools
I think I mentioned qmv, part of the renameutils package, a long while ago, but never said anything about what it was or what it did. That’s an unkind thing, because qmv in particular is something I...
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dehtml: Another scraping tool
A long time ago I talked about vilistextum, and in passing noted both dehtml and html2text as alternatives. Today is dehtml. Tomorrow … well, let’s pretend it’s a surprise. I suppose there’s nothing...
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html2text: And then there were three
I’ll go ahead and close off these three applications by showing html2text. It’s true, there’s not a lot that html2text does that I haven’t already attributed to either dehtml or vilistextum. One thing...
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Bonus: Missing … presumed having a good time
I am a little shy these days of listing applications I suspect are dead. It didn’t work out well last time. But I suppose this is one small way of soliciting assistance from beyond my own four walls....
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beets: Not the veggie kind
I see over the past few months that I have been lax in my methods, occasionally naming software that either was mentioned years before, or never on this particular blog. That, ladies and gentlemen,...
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find: Simply the best tool out there
Since I missed so many days this month, I am going to double up today, and mention find too. I flitted past find about three months ago, when I dredged up a three-years expired desktop search app...
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shred: A power for good or evil
Adding to my list of referenced but undescribed software … I mentioned shred back in March, but didn’t walk through it. shred is one of the coreutils, and is a mixed blessing, from my standpoint. On...
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dnstop: A little prodding, and bingo!
I looked at dnstop a while ago, and thought it lacking. That was a mistake. By itself, just dnstop shows a few requests and a cumulative percentage. Boring. However, tack on a flag or two, and suddenly...
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macchanger: Ready for the masquerade
I am at times a paranoiac, which may or may not be a good thing. Most recently I find myself masking my MAC address on public networks, not because I am inherently a bad person, but because I expect...
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