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http://askubuntu.com/questions/41302/how-to-connect-usb-monitor
Sounds like it's a solution to the green screen on plugging in a usb monitor and getting a green screen.
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http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/04/introducing-ecryptfs-recover-private.html
A critical utility for ecryptfs called ecryptfs-recover-private which automates and simplifies the process of recovering encrypted home directory data from Ubuntu.
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http://pastebin.com/yPyK193a
A different strategy to find an encrypted filename from an unencrypted filename under ecryptfs (Ubunut's encrypted home directory system).
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http://www.telmon.org/?p=631
Interesting article including a script that figures out a mapping from unencrypted filenames into ecryptfs encrypted filenames. Potentially useful.
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http://www.randomphantasmagoria.com/firmware/nexus-s/
A list of ROM packages for the Nexus S, migrated from the xda-developers forum.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445570
A list of ROM packages for the Nexus S, the post says it has been migrated to a new location on a blog.
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http://opencorporates.com/
A somewhat useful open database of company data worldwide. Supports crude search and returns data in json. Essentially Companies House data in the UK, so not ultra useful.
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http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/12/12/simple-file-encryption-with-openssl/
Handy howto on encrypting files with openssl and a passphrase. Dead easy, `openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -in file -out file` then `openssl aes-256-cbc -d in file out file`. Can also be used in pipes like `tar cp /blah | openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out b.tar``
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https://github.com/mageplus/mageplus/wiki
A community owned and driven, enterprise fork of Magento Community Edition (1.7.0)
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http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
An online book (or $2.99 pdf) on learning python. Looks interesting. Smart name.
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
A very, very, very verbose article on how to ask smart questions in IRC / etc. Great for sending to n00bs! :-)
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http://square.github.com/cube/
Cube is an open-source system for visualizing time series data, built on MongoDB, Node and D3.
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http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
Simple open source regex to detect mobile browsers. Very cool, super useful. Free and open source. Yay!
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https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
Official list of Ubuntu mirrors including very useful information on how up to date they are and their available bandwidth.
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http://engineering.gomiso.com/2011/01/04/easy-monitoring-of-varnish-with-munin/
Very useful walkthrough on setting up munin to monitor Varnish. Explains how to install and configure munin, which is very simple and very valuable.
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http://serverfault.com/questions/130185/store-varnish-cache-in-hard-disk
Useful pointers on how to store varnish cache on disk. Very easy, recommends using ext2 and noatime / nodiratime to improve disk throughput. Smart.
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https://github.com/madalinoprea/magneto-varnish/
A magento varnish plugin that enables varnish caching on Magento sites.
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https://beeznest.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/memcached-to-store-php-sessions/
Excellent article describing in depth how to have PHP store session data in memcached and the differences between the memcache and memcached implementations in PHP. Very useful.
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http://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Very useful page on configuring buddyPress through the wp-config equivalent bp-custom.php.
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wiki-append/
WordPress plugin that appends a wikipedia (or other mediawiki site) entry to the bottom of a wp post / page. Uses ?action=render on the end of the url to get just the HTML for the article, not the site. Useful as a resource.
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http://www.ndot.in/products/ndotdeals-opensource-groupon-clone/
Groupon clone, claims to be open source but blatantly is not, pro version starts at $145, premium is "contact us" pricing.
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https://github.com/robstyles/Massive-Coupon---Open-source-groupon-clone
Open source groupon clone built on django. Some uptake and support. Released in 2009 under MIT license.
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http://lastwatchdog.com/driveby-downloads-lurking-8-million-small-ecommerce/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LastWatchdog+(The+Last+Watchdog)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Interesting article on the dangers of not keeping software patched, particularly with regards to open source content management systems.
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http://www.phonegap.com/
Seems to be the best way to build cross platform mobile apps around. It's open source, free, and includes a cloud based build platform that will build an app for multiple mobile environments all "in the cloud". Easy.
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http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/setup-a-complete-django-server-deploy-rollback-%E2%80%93-all-in-one-powerful-script/
A script to set up and deploy django servers. Hat tip rob.
