Vacuum, the hard disk cleaner
(This is a page contributed by Eugene Wong and contains a useful script that he wrote for RULE) There is often the need to remove certain documentation and directories that definitely aren’t needed....
View ArticleemeLFM: A simple, two-pane file manager
emelFM is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK+ interface, a flexible filetyping scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without...
View ArticleMCG: Central configuration of all mail tools
Sometime in 2002, even before starting RULE, I (Marco) grew sick of setting options about the same email parameter, but with two different names in two different files, and of trying to keep those two...
View ArticlePOPFILTER: delete unwanted email on pop3 server instead of downloading it
On the Net there are a *lot* of examples on how to download automatically your email from different POP3 servers into your computer, and, once it’s there, how to process it, i.e. how to sort it,...
View ArticleAgain: a script to uninstall packages on Linux
“Again” is a script c ontributed by Eugene Wong to uninstall packages again, and again on a Gnu/Linux distribution. More exactly, this script is only for uninstalling rpms that the user *knows* he...
View ArticleA simple screenshot grabber
This is a simple screenshot grabber consisting of a 23 lines Bash script, using Xdialog for user input. It has windows asking the user if it must save both the whole desktop or one single window, and...
View ArticleThe Slinky installer home page
This page explains what the Slinky installer is, how it works internally, and (in the future), how to modify it or handle some corner cases which may require slinky patches. All the step-to-step...
View ArticleHow to build a minimal Qt library
//(this article is courtesy of Luciano Montanaro, mikelima at the server: virgilio.it)// Here are some thoughts and experiences on how to configure a minimal qt library that still supports kde3.2 (or...
View ArticleSlinkydetect, a hardware detection floppy
A large problem with collecting used hardware for redistribution to developing countries is to register and test the equipment. In this context, a bootfloppy that detects the hardware is needed. There...
View ArticleDAn: the GNU/Linux Distribution ANalyzer tool
important 2005/12/04: this is an old pet project of mine (Marco) which I had to leave behind a couple of years ago (the first posting to the RULE website was on 2003/02/10, and a DAn was discussed on...
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