EvilZone
General Tech => Operating System => : proxx October 19, 2015, 04:03:36 PM
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The title is pretty obvious , this is a place to share tools of any kindl , this does not have to be security related.
I suggest keeping it 1 tool per post.
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So I stumbled upon GdMap, this is a tool to visualize the content of your hdd, very handy tool, it helped me to find old log backups that where not particulary large but many of them and it freed up over 50GB since I found all sorts a shit I didnt know I had.
This is way more than my 'regular' cleanup round.
Simple yet very effective stuff.
(http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gdmap.jpg?c28e1e)
Oke next one in line plz.
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I'd like to introduce Bleachbit. It's like the CCleaner of Linux world. Personally I don't use it that much but it can also act as a good privacy tool to delete sensitive information from caches, etc. also it has support for multiple passes I think to securely delete stuff.
https://imgur.com/cVdeQAS (https://imgur.com/cVdeQAS)
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Systemback is what remastersys failed to do. I use it for creating live ISO but have been tempted to also try out the system restore options.
- System backup
- System restore
- System copy
- System install
- Live system create
- System repair
- System upgrade
http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemback/
(http://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/systemback/screenshots/systemback.png)
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Systemback is what remastersys failed to do. I use it for creating live ISO but have been tempted to also try out the system restore options.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemback/
(http://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/systemback/screenshots/systemback.png)
Really nice tool , thanks dude.
Let me know how the restore went.
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I like the password manager pass (http://www.passwordstore.org/).
It's UNIX to the max,uses GPG and directories to provide it's service, lightweight, and capable to store other sensitive information. Seems like it's above average from a security perspective as well. Plus, there is a number of migration scripts, A firefox addon I haven't tested (https://github.com/jvenant/passff#readme), and a lot more.
Using it is a breeze because of great design:
$ pass somecategory/something
Due to the fact that directories are used, tab completion can be used out of the box (in ZSH at least).
Enjoy.
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Interesting, I've been using LastPass for quite a while now (mainly cos of convenience) and recently I've heard that they've been acquired by a private firm. I'm planning to switch to a better alternative, perhaps I'll try what you suggested in the next few days when I get the time.
Edit:
Whats looks interesting is that it uses git, how secure is it if you decide to synchronize your gpg encrypted passwords with something like github? Does it leak data or personally identifiable information?
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I want to hint on (almost) everything that suckless released. They are doing a good job by creating simple tools that are hackable and -as the name suggests- suck less. ST (http://st.suckless.org/ (http://st.suckless.org/)) for example is a terminal written in c, that can be easily used and gives some insights on how theses programs work.
Furthermore, 9menu and dmenu are great tools to use with only a window manager or if you are creating your own desktop environment. They are part of the suckless tool collection (http://tools.suckless.org/ (http://tools.suckless.org/)).
Last but not least, dwm is a simple and easy-to-use window manager that is dynamic (meaning it supports both, tiling and floating windows). (http://dwm.suckless.org/ (http://dwm.suckless.org/))
Their philosophy (http://suckless.org/philosophy (http://suckless.org/philosophy)) and their style guidlines (http://suckless.org/coding_style (http://suckless.org/coding_style)) are interesting as well.
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I want to hint on (almost) everything that suckless released. They are doing a good job by creating simple tools that are hackable and -as the name suggests- suck less. ST (http://st.suckless.org/ (http://st.suckless.org/))
Please stick to 1 tool to keep the thread clean.
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And ofcourse LVM.
This has been around for a while but I only recently started to really dig into it.
Gotta say this stuff is pure magic.
With these logical volumes you practicallly remove any restrictions a physical disk has , for example have 2 disks act as 1 in a network or crazy shit like that.
Hot resize or move to different hardware are simple to do which allows for very cool things.
For example just for the heck of it I have a windows VM in an LVM container that I boot on libvirtd but the fun thing is I also have it listed in GRUB, basically I can either boot it on a hypervisor and on the metal.
For anyone who never looked at it closer ,I suggest you do , you won't regret it.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration-en-US.pdf