Spy on yourself and see how much you're not getting done...

Four to five hours during an 8-hour day is in the top percentile! Yow!
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/022411-network-monitoring.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2011-02-25

Google OnePass launched

http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/

LD_LIBRARY_PATH bad? David Barr / Xah Lee

http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html

Original article seems to have disappeared without trace?

zsh - last shell you'll ever need?

http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/zsh-the-last-shell-youll-ever-need/

Oh yeah? What about scsh? ;-)

Slide presentation on Linux ARM porting

http://www.slideshare.net/champ_yen/linux-porting-1330569
http://champyen.blogspot.com/2009/04/linux-porting-for-new-arm-platform.html
Seems good @ initial glance - though a few typos are apparent already.

See slide 27 for references to other resources.

Diagrams are nice.

http://www.champyen.blogspot.com

Aspergers' Resource

http://withyoueverystepoftheway.com/

PDF (Tables) to Text more

pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)

pdftk - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents

PDFBox

There are a number of PDF-to-Excel things available commercially ... one (Nitro) has a demo online but limits filesize input to 10MB :(

devmem2.c

http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/devmem2.c

devmem2.c, access device registers from userspace Linux

Builds in target machine (or can be cross-compiled)

Run it without params for usage information.

Addresses are Physical.

Prefix with 0x for hex addresses.

This can be wrapped in a script to give multiple register values read out.

Extracting text from PDF file with PDFBox ExtractText command

http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/ExtractText.html

Needs some installation (assuming PDFbox isn't installed already e.g. by your Linux distribution):

SVN pdfbox trunk

apt-get install maven2

mvn clean install

On successful building it, use it like:

usage: java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText [OPTIONS] [Text file]

e.g.:

rbarraud@thinky:~/Desktop/tools/PDFBox/trunk/app/target$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ExtractText -html /home/rbarraud/Desktop/Reference/pdfs/IMX25RM.pdf /tmp/MX25RM.html

I want to grab tables out of PDF processor reference manuals to make tools for browsing machine state by register names etc.

Perhaps it's time I tried something more effective than this?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3744t2Vj4Q

State of Scripting Languages (2007) Larry Wall

http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

Scripting Languages comparison Rigaux

http://rigaux.org/language-study/scripting-language/

Debugging Rules -- Dave Agans

http://www.debuggingrules.com

iproute2 replacing ifconfig etc (net-tools) ?

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2

Turning on bash's globstar ...

magilla@think:~/Desktop$ shopt -s globstar
magilla@think:~/Desktop$ shopt globstar
globstar        on 

Helps with recursive grep - you can then use

# grep -inH "find_this_expr" **/*.[CcHh]

or similar to recurse into all subdirs.

Making Great Decisions - Google Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0ZGe-OLK4&feature=channel

Epistemological Engineering Blog

Weird and Intriguing
http://epistemologicalengineering.blogspot.com/

Readability - Away with clutter!

https://www.readability.com/

Turns out DeMorgan was a funny guy...

http://www.todayinsci.com/D/DeMorgan_Augustus/DeMorganAugustus-Quotations.htm

Google page to strip webpages to text only

http://google.com/gwt/n

Alfred North Whitehead quotes

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

Linux (p)threads programming tutorial

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html

GNU C Library manual roadmap

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Roadmap-to-the-Manual.html#Roadmap-to-the-Manual