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I initially wrote these miscellaneous utilities for my own needs. Should you have similar ones here they are...
Roger Seguin

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The author of these copyrighted pieces of open source software is NOT in any way responsible for any damage on any computer incurred by using them. They may or may not work for you. No guarantee is provided.

diskiobench.C 8K C++ source code
Disk performance benchmark
May require gcc/g++ instead of native compiler (use of dynamic arrays)
pic BSDL
flightsimu.tar.bz2 16K C++ source code - Motif toolkit required
Front end GUI to the FlightGear (open source project) simulator
pic GPL
mkthumbs 4K Bash script
Make thumbnails of all .jpg's located in a given directory
Uses the ImageMagick's convert utility
- BSDL
purgelnk 4K Shell script
List, and optionally remove, broken symbolic links in directory trees
- BSDL
purgeold 4K Bash script
Remove old (tmp) files from the given directory
- BSDL
rgb.tar.bz2 8K C++ source code for Linux systems - Motif toolkit required
Display colors listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
pic BSDL
runas.c 8K C source code
Execute a command with substitute user and group Id's
Can be used for starting a program at boot time with root privileges dropped
- BSDL
wipeswp.C 8K C++ source code for Linux systems
Fill a Linux swap device up with zeros
Can be used to make sure that no sensitive information is left over after shutdown
- BSDL
xfce-diskperf.tar.bz2 172K C source code including source for Glade (GTK+ GUI builder) of the Xfce4 desktop panel Disk Performance plugin (release 1.5), which displays instant disk/partition I/O statistics on Linux 2.4.20+, 2.6 and NetBSD systems
This software (minus the Glade source) is also available directly from the Xfce site as well as from Linux and BSD distributions
pic BSDL
xfce-genmon.tar.bz2 168K C source code of the Xfce4 desktop panel Generic Monitor plugin (release 1.1), which cyclically spawns the indicated script/program, captures its output and displays it as a string into the panel
This software is also available directly from the Xfce site as well as from Linux and BSD distributions
pic LGPL

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