Alberto Garcia's webpage at Igalia

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I used to build packages and maintain backports of the official Last.fm client for Debian and Ubuntu. However, as that client is already available in recent versions of both distributions this is no longer necessary, so I'm not distributing Last.fm packages here anymore.

These are bootable floppy and CD images of GNU GRUB, the well-known boot loader. They don't have anything special, they're just images created from the Debian package of GRUB 0.97 ready to use. You can create your own images but if you're in a hurry these images might be useful.

If you're looking for something more sophisticated better check Super Grub Disk.

Get the CD image (464 KiB).

Get the floppy image (107 KiB).

Youtube downloader is a little shell script to download videos from YouTube.

You can download a video using its full URL or just its video ID.

Examples:

   $ youtube.sh "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFQI35EpSE&search=inhuman"
   $ youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFQI35EpSE
   $ youtube.sh LVFQI35EpSE

Notice the quotes around the first URL to avoid special characters (such as '&') from being interpreted by the shell. It is safe to always put quotes around URLs.

Videos are stored in FLV format. They can be played with many programs, such as MPlayer. Videos will be stored under the name <VideoID>.flv

Bear in mind that this is a simple shell script with very basic funcionality and requirements. If you want a better program with more features take a look at the Python-based youtube-dl, also (available in Debian).

mp3diag.pl is a little MP3 ID3 tag editor developed by me. It requires dialog, but it works too with other dialog-compatible replacements such as whiptail or Xdialog. It's heavily inspired on mp3diag from Thorvald Natvig

It can render both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It supports Title, Artist, Album, Year, Comment, Genre and Track Number. It can be used to work in batch mode from a shell script without user intervention, but it's mainly designed to be used on a single file each time in an interactive fashion. There're plenty of great taggers with many more features out there, mp3diag.pl is best suited for the situations where you have a MP3 file and you want to tag it quickly from the command line without having to open a bigger program.

This script requires Perl and MP3::Tag from Thomas Geffert. You can get it at SourceForge. If you're a Debian user, you can install the libmp3-tag-perl package instead.

mp3diag.pl is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.

Mihai Bazon has written a really nice DHTML calendar. It has lots of features and it's very customizable.

While working with Tapestry, I found that it would be very nice to use Mihai's calendar instead of the regular DatePicker included in this framework, so I wrapped it and released it as a ready-to-use new Tapestry component.

The implemented interface is very limited by now, offering out of the box just a little subset of the customization options that the original calendar provides. However, the component is easy to edit so this shouldn't be a real problem.

Both Mihai's calendar and my Tapestry wrapper are distributed under the GNU LGPL.

DSPAM is a great GPLed antispam tool, developed mainly by Jonathan A. Zdziarski. It's small, fast and efficient. It integrates easily with most mail software and it's easy to train even by non-experienced users. It also includes a nice web interface where you can configure it and see spam detection statistics.

I've compiled and packed DSPAM 3.6.8 for Debian sarge (x86 version). It's compiled with support for daemon mode and virtual users. Drivers included are: hash_drv, mysql_drv and pgsql_drv (they can be selected at runtime). The web interface is also included in the package, along with the whole documentation.

Update: please note that DSPAM is now officially included in Debian, so you probably won't need this package anymore.