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Grisbi is a freee opensource personal accounting software for Linux and Windows released under GPL. Grisbi is a simple and intuitive software for basic use, and still very powerful once setup. Grisbi can manage multiple accounts, currencies and users and manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other informations that makes it quite adapted for associations (except those that require double entry accounting).Read More →

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IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraf is an IP traffic monitor that shows information on the IP traffic passing over your network. IPTraf is very easy to use with the easy to use menus and the simplicity of configurations (if changing from defaults) makes it a real nice command-line network utility. IPTraf is a root only utility and cannot be run by standard users.Read More →

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Spindown, as the name suggests is a free opensource command line utility to spin down your disks when no data is read or written of it. This should help save the precious energy and give the disks a longer life. It works by checking the number of blocks read from and written to the disks. When no blocks are read or written to the disk then it is considered idle. When a disk stays idle long enough spindown uses sg_start SCSI scripts to spin the disk down. It also works with usb disks and hotswappable disks because it doesn’t watch the device name (hda, sdb,Read More →