One dozen links
Posted by ushimitsudoki on May 6, 2008
I subscribe to a lot of feeds related to Ubuntu (using Liferea as my RSS client), and sometimes I flag things because they interest me, but for whatever reason I haven’t actually gotten around to trying them out.
I thought it might be neat if I dumped the links into a blog post every so often, so I figured a dozen was a nice number to start with…
Boot Process Performance Analyser – a bit about Bootchart, a tool for looking at your boot-up process. I’ve actually used Bootchart before; it’s a neat tool.
Hubackup – Home User Backup. I’ve never been good at keeping backups, and I really need to get a process in place. So BORING, but intellectually I know it is important.
Open Source Web Conferencing – I have to use GoToMeeting a lot for work, and I am (mildly) interested in find some cross-platform open-source alternatives.
77 Useful Linux Commands and Utilities – Because I am still early in the “learning basic commands” stage.
Dig Up System Information Using: The Terminal or Graphical Utilities. A few of these have came in quite handy, but I haven’t checked into all of them.
Cairo-Dock – which I want to try, but I could not find a true 64bit package.
How Do You Monitor Your Server? This post turned me on to htop and trafshow.
Conky – This seems to be a popular “system monitor and more on the desktop” app.
How to: Movie/Video/Screensaver as Desktop Wallpaper. Only because I might want to whip up a flashy “demo” of Ubuntu to show friends.
Track changes to /etc. This is a short and simple post about an idea that really made me smile when I read it.
Tweak and optimize Hardy Boot and Application Startup Times! To be honest, my desktop performance is perfectly acceptable (with the caveat of triple monitor support being a confusing mess). However, I do like to read about performance tweaks, and my wife’s Ubuntu box is much older hardware.
…and that is my first batch of links! This covers about 3 months or so of reading, so this isn’t something I will be doing a lot, and I’m not turning this blog into one of those blogs with just links to other blogs and short comments.
