Parted Magic is everything the gparted livecd tries to be times ten. Included in the barebones desktop are Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, and more.

In order from most to least important: It works. It’s free. It’s easy to configure. What more could you ask? There’s even a config generator. Here’s the list of packages required to build on Fedora 12

With one host connecting and launching dbus sessions, this should work. You can get the variable from running sessions in /proc/ /environ. But as soon as you have multiple hosts, you need to figure out which host you’re coming from.

Get rid of Microsoft Visio once and for all. yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams. I love that I can run this anywhere I have the run-time environment available. You can output your charts in many formats, even in Flash.

ooking to sniff your VoIP traffic? ccording to the sourceforge site, UCSniff is a VoIP & IP Video Security Assessment tool that integrates existing open source software into several useful features, allowing VoIP and IP Video owners and security professionals to rapidly test for the threat of unauthorized VoIP and Video Eavesdropping.

on’t call it a point-to-point phone network, that might scare small children. How about network-free communication or a self-organizing self-powered temporary network? Mobile phones and tablets communicating with each other without the need of infrastructure, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

Animated aquariums are nice and all, but how about an animated ascii art aquarium? Bonus points for embedding your aquarium into your desktop!