HTTPie is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.
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Ubuntu is a good Linux distribution to start out with, but there are some tweaks you might want to perform to get it to work and behave the way you want it to. This is especially true if you’re new to Ubuntu or Linux. In this guide, we’ll show you some great tweaks that can go a long way to achieving desktop zen.
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Mydumper is a tool used for backing up MySQL database servers much faster than the mysqldump tool distributed with MySQL. It also has the capability to retrieve the binary logs from the remote server at the same time as the dump itself.
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echoping is a small program to test (approximatively) performances of a remote Internet host by sending it TCP "echo" packets. It can use other protocols as well (HTTP -- which makes it a good tool to test Web
servers, UDP "echo", etc).
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Asp finds the IP address of an Internet connected host. In order to find it, the peer hostname (not the FQDN), and the range of its possible IP addresses need to be specified. Those IP addresses could be simple IP addresses as 127.0.0.1 or "metaip" addresses as 127.0.0.1-20 or 127.0.0.*:the former is a simple way to avoid to type a lot of consecutive addresses, the latter is short for 127.0.0.1-254.
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