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https://code.google.com/p/adb-fastboot-install/
Package containing the adb and fastboot binaries and a handful of simple shell scripts to drop them into the appropriate places on mac / linux. Nice.
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http://blog.rootshell.be/2009/03/27/yubikey-authentication-on-linux/
Article explaining how to use yubipam to enable yubikey authentication on a linux machine. However, yubipam only supports single factor auth, username + token, no additional password.
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https://github.com/firnsy/yubipam/#readme
PAM module that allows offline authentication against a yubikey. Requires a key to be retrieved from yubico by sending email plus payment info, etc. Less secure than online validation. Only supports single factor auth, username + token, no password.
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https://github.com/tfheen/ykfde#readme
Script to enable a yubikey to be used with luks full disk encryption. Very interesting...
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http://www.mindtwist.de/main/linux/5-linux-security/6-how-to-use-one-time-ssh-passwords-on-debianubuntu.html
Very interesting article on how to enable single use password logon for Ubuntu. Requires a thing called opie and a few config file changes. Seems very useful...
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http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/9020-how-log-top-command.html
Useful forum post that explains the `top -b` option, making top output text suitable for piping / writing to file, like `top -bn1 | mail`...
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http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/
Dummnet simulates different network bandwidth rates and latencies by introducing delays or chokes, works on *nix flavours.
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http://wammu.eu/
Suite of tools to manage mobile phones or gsm modems. Includes an sms daemon among other things, and some gui stuff to manage it. The sms daemon connects to a MySQL / Postgres database natively.
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https://designbuildtestrepeat.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/huawei-e220-on-linux-for-sms/
Very useful article about how to send SMS messages through a huawei e220 modem on linux. Could be useful for FoodRadar.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
Useful article on setting up a hard drive to get best use out of an SSD. One to watch when upgrading to 11.04 probably.
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http://www.wunderlist.com/
Funky open source web app around task management that syncs and has a client across Mac, Win, iPhone, Android. Apparently no linux support. Built on top of Titanium from appcelerator.
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http://www.appcelerator.com/
Incredibly interesting app development platform that builds apps for all platforms (desktop & mobile, including linux, yay!) quickly with a single API. Open source, free, pay for premium support. Very, very interesting business.
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http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_keysyms
Useful list of keyboard symbols. I used it when creating new shortcuts for quicktile.py.
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http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/03/17/introduction-to-the-xmonad-tiling-window-manager/
User friendly introduction to xmonad, a tiling window manager. Seems much more accessible now having read this. :-)
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/xine-second-monitor-dvd-playback-question-733593/
Useful post explaining that xine can be started like `xine --geometry 1920x1080+1441+0 -f /path/to/file` to automatically fullscreen on a second monitor. Handy.
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http://linuxhotel.de/
The linux hotel in Essen, Germany. Site almost entirely in German.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615383
Post about linking vsftpd to mysql via pam-mysql. Contains detailed copies of config files, useful.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1149573
Topic on vsftpd / mysql via pam-mysql, contains some useful info on logging data via pam-mysql.
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http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/125789
Article on how to link vsftpd to mysql via pam-mysql. Handy.
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http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
A very secure, fast, light, extensible ftp server. user_sub_token is the option to investigate.
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http://www.floola.com/
Incredible little app that can run from an iPod on Linux / Mac / Windows and lets you manage your iPod. Beautiful. :-) Continuation of Yamipod.
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http://www.jkwiens.com/2010/01/04/changing-pdf-metadata-on-ubuntu/
Handy howto edit PDF metadata using pdftk. In summary: `pdftk file.pdf dump_data output file.txt`, `gedit file.txt`, `pdftk file.pdf update_info file.txt output newfile.pdf`
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http://tomayko.com/writings/StupidShellTricks
Super handy guide on disabling line wrapping in command line tools. less -S, w3m and more... :-)
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https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/index.html
Ubuntu introduction from 6.10, one of the only references to "Linux for human beings" I could find on ubuntu.com.
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http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html
A vim cheat sheet. Lists various commands in one page, easily searchable.
