Tool of the week: xdiskusage
xdiskusage is a great little tool to show what is using up space on a disk.
There is also Filelight which has a bit more eye-candy, but depends on KDE and so may be a bit counter-productive in freeing up disk space.
posted Fri 22 Oct 2004 in /software/tools | link
CIA monitoring
What is CIA?
CIA is a bot that will take email from your CVS/Subversion repositories' commit scripts, and output it to the #commits channel on freenode, and optionally to your project's IRC channel. It means you can sit in that channel and marvel in real time at all the free software being written all over the world. CIA also collects some simple statistics.
posted Fri 6 Jun 2003 in /software/tools/ciabot | link
valgrind rocks
kcachegrind and Valgrind are just incredible: finding memory and performance problems with them is like shooting fish in a barrel. The recursive-subdivision display in kcachegrind is a minor work of art in its own right as a way of visualizing the division of the total cost of the program into smaller and smaller parts.
I think you also have to admire the audacity of Julian Seward in just writing a CPU emulator from scratch to better support debugging.
posted Tue 27 May 2003 in /software/tools/valgrind | link
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