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===food===
 
====spironlina====
 
spirolina is an edible algae that needs only water, urine and iron (from rusty nails for example).  However, it needs quite a warm climate.  In colder places it is only possible to grow it in a greenhouse in summer.  A possibility could be to pump it through a wood stove or compost heater.   
 
* [http://www.antenna.ch/en/documents/Jourdan_UK.pdf Grow your own spirulina]
 
* [http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Spirulina_in_sadhana_forest Sprirulina in sadhana forest] this guide to growing sprirulina makes it seem amazingly easy, feeding it with urine and iron from rusty nails.
 
* [http://www.antenna.ch/en/documents/productionFAQ Spirulina production FAQ pdf]
 
 
aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA).  apparently this has more chlorophyll than spirulina, needs less salinity, has more calcium, and importantly, can live in a colder climate.  But it seems it only grows naturally (not cultivated).
 
[http://www.thenaturalife.com/The_Natural_Life/Article%3A_AFA_and_Spirulina_Compared.html AFA and Spirulina Compared]
 
 
 
====tempeh:====
 
Tasty indonesian soja with mould grown on it.  The difficult thing is keeping the temperate constant.  tempeh needs to be at about 32 degrees C for about 22 hours.  Not a problem if you live in indonesia.  If it gets colder than that for some time period, it seems it still works but takes longer, eg: on a woodstove which goes out at night but you light it again in the morning.  but there is then increased risk of contamination with other bacterias.  If it gets too hot the mould cannot survive. 
 
 
electric incubators are easier to regulate temperature but less ecological and use too much power to realistically run from batteries.  typically an isulated box (eg: an old refridgerator) and a heating element (eg: 40 or 60w light bulb).  The simplest way to regulate it is with a dimmer switch (this works quite well).  but leaving a dimmer set  external temperature changes (eg: at night) and towards the end of the process the tempeh begins to produce its own heat and the temperature rises.
 
 
Another tricky thing is how to save the spore so you can make more and dont have it keep buying tempeh starter.  you have to leave the tempeh in the incubator for longer (cut a thinner piece for more surface area and to not waste the middle part).  the black powdery stuff is the spores.  these can be scraped with something sterile to collect, or just take the whole piece of spore covered tempeh and dry it out (eg: on the stove) and blend it/grind it to a powder. 
 
 
* [http://kedaiperantau.blogspot.de/ kedai perantau] sell tempeh starter from malaysia, quite cheap.
 
* [http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-make-tempeh-starter-from-scratch-health-benefits-videos-recipe-sites how to make tempeh starter from scratch] also recommends books and has facts about how healthy it is.
 
* [http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~klevchen/tempeh-incubator.html tempeh incubator]
 
* [http://www.makethebesttempeh.org/home-made-tempeh-culture-te.html makethebesttempeh.org home made tempeh culture]
 
* [http://wildfermenation.com wild fermentation] this site has good forums much info about many kinds of fermentation.
 
* grain mill for grinding the beans:  look for porkert grain mill
 
* the book of tempeh, shurtleff and aoyagi (can be found on pdf)
 
 
===gardening===
 
 
* [http://www.pfaf.org plants for a future] 7000 edible, medicinal & useful plants
 
* [http://forestgardenplants.blogspot.co.uk/ forest garden plants] buy or swap forest garden plants (Devon, UK)
 
* [http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/diy-instructions/home-made-plant-rooting-hormone-willow-water/ willow water as a rooting hormone for propergating cuttings]
 
* [http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ the real seed catalogue] uk based sellers of interesting varieties of vegetable seeds
 
* 'biochar' can be made by gasifying wood, using a special kind of stove/cooker ([http://www.biochar-international.org/technology/stoves biochar stove design]) and then used as a soil improver (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta terra preta on wikipedia])
 
 
===tech===
 
 
====filesharing====
 
  * [http://www.torrent411.com torrent411] good torrent tracker (french)
 
  * [http://www.rutracker.org rutracker.org] good torrent tracker (russian)
 
  * [http://www.zeropaid.com zeropaid] filesharing news and forum
 
  * [http://tracker2.postman.i2p tracker2.postman.i2p] i2p torrent tracker (you must be running i2p to access)
 
  * [http://www.imule.i2p imule] p2p sharing software for i2p (also an i2p eepsite)
 
 
====audio====
 
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org hydrogen audio] forums about audio software etc
 
* [http://www.rockbox.org/ rockbox] open source firmware for music players
 
* [http://cmus.sourceforge.net cmus] curses based music player
 
* [http://www.musicpd.org/ mpd] music player daemon
 
* [http://beets.radbox.org/ beets] music collection organising tool
 
* [http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ Linux multimedia studio (LMMS)] free music production software, with VST compatibility
 
* [sox.sourceforge.net sox] command line sound tool.  can be used as simple synthesiser
 
* [http://www.diyaudio.com diyaudio.com] forums about diy audio hardware projects
 
* horn response - speaker enclosure design software.  can use with abaca? audio abacus
 
 
to take 30 random mp3s and put them in a directory (i use this to randomly choose some of my music to put onto my mp3 player):
 
find -name "*.mp3" | sort --random-sort | head -n 30 | xargs -n 1 -i^Cd '\n' cp {} ~/sometunes
 
 
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  * [http://www.remote-exploit.org]
 
  * [http://www.backtrack-linux.org]
 
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====other====
 
  * [http://mightyohm.com mighty ohm] some open source hardware designs and a soldering guide in many languages
 
  * [https://openlibrary.org/ openlibrary.org] ebooks
 
  * [https://archive.org/ internet archive] archive of internet sites, many media files, you can put media files here too.
 
  * [https://github.com/Anoncheg1/Command-line-translator Use google translate from the command line] with some extra features.
 
  * [https://github.com/soimort/google-translate-cli Google translate awk program] very similar
 
  * [http://www.openframeworks.cc open frameworks] c++ library for creative projects
 
<!--  * [http://www.torproject.org tor project] anonymity network  -->
 
  *  [http://ronja.twibright.com/ ronja diy laser]
 
  *  [http://ttfa.net/12volt ttfa.net/12volt]
 
  * [http://mattmahoney.net/dc/ mattmahoney on data compression] much info on data compression.  PAQ8 text compression,
 
    while computationally expensive, could be very useful for low-bandwidth radio data networks.
 
  *  pbx
 
  *  x25, a kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switched_network packet switched network]
 
  *  [https://www.johncahill.net/wiki/index.php/Skype_like_conferencing_System skype like conferencing system] also ZRTP and SRTP
 
  * [http://sdf.org sdf.org] sdf public access unix system
 
  * [http://www.eternal-september.org eternal september] Free text only usenet access (registration required)
 
  * [http://www.aioe.org aioe] free text only usenet access (no registration required)
 
  rsync
 
  unison file syncronisation
 
  retroshare
 
 
====geeky linux tools====
 
* [http://awesome.naquadah.org/ awesome] window manager
 
* [http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/ terminator] terminal emulator with many features
 
* [http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ tmux] terminal multiplexer
 
* [http://www.midnight-commander.org/ midnight commander]
 
* [http://conky.sourceforge.net/ conky] sytem monitor
 
* [http://www.vimperator.org vimperator] vi style control of web browser
 
* [http://www.a-a-p.org/ aap] makes it easy to download, build and install software
 
* [http://www.calmar.ws/ calmar.ws] tips and info on linux,vim, vimperator, awesome, other stuff
 
* [http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html vi cheat sheet]
 
* [http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html vim tips]
 
* [http://www.refcards.com/ refcards.com] free quick reference cards
 
* [http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2009/07/10/vim-mediawiki-editing vim mediawiki editing]
 
* [http://fcron.free.fr fcron.free.fr] apparently good for running cron jobs on a system not always switched on.
 
 
=====email software=====
 
* [http://www.mutt.org/ mutt] - email program
 
* [http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt Steve losh's mutt guide]
 
* [http://notmuchmail.org notmuch] program for searching email
 
* [http://www.lunar-linux.org/mutt-sidebar/ mutt sidebar] patch for mutt with folders listed in a sidebar
 
* [http://blog.developwithpassion.com/2013/05/02/getting-up-and-running-with-a-sane-mutt-setup/ getting up and running with a sane mutt setup]
 
 
 
=====backup/archiving tools for linux=====
 
* rsync
 
* [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ unison] file syncroniser.  Unlike rsync, unison ensures both filesystems have the newest version of a file.  [http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-unison-file-synchronization-between-two-servers-on-debian-squeeze tutorial on setting up unison]
 
 
diff -qr source destination
 
comm -3 <(ls ~/dir-new/) <(ls ~/dir)        # compare two directories
 
 
Find duplicate files:
 
 
find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate
 
 
Find and delete duplicate files:
 
 
find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d |  xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate | cut -f3-100 -d ' ' | tr '\n.' '\t.' | sed 's/\t\t/\n/g' | cut -f2-100 | tr '\t' '\n' | perl -i -pe 's/([ (){}-])/\\$1/g' | perl -i -pe 's/'\''/\\'\''/g' | xargs -pr rm -v
 
 
===booklet printing on linux===
 
some tools, for example, for reordering pages of an a4 documents to make an a5 booklet or zine.
 
 
pdf2ps    #convert a pdf document to postscript     
 
psbook in.ps out.ps  # reorder the pages to make a book, 
 
psnup -s1 -2 book.ps booklet.ps  # shrink to 2 pages on each A4 side
 
ps2pdf  #convert it back to a pdf
 
lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=even -#1 infile.pdf  # print the even pages
 
lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=odd -#1 infile.pdf    # print the odd pages
 
 
====encryption====
 
* gpg
 
* truecrypt
 
 
 
====non-commercial email providers====
 
* activix uk
 
* so36 -berlin
 
* [http://www.immerda.ch immerda.ch]
 
* [http://www.systemli.org systemli.org] (de)
 
* [http://mail.riseup.net riseup.net]
 
 
 
===local announcements websites===
 
===local announcements websites===
For buying/selling secondhand, etc.  
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For buying/selling secondhand, etc. Better than ebay because you meet the person face-to-face and put money in the hand.  No third parties pinching fees, no stupid rules, no sending stuff from the other side of the planet.  This requires some trust, which builds community.
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* [http://www.craigslist.org craigslist.org] international
 
* [http://www.craigslist.org craigslist.org] international
 
* [http://www.freecycle.org/ freecycle] international, free stuff only.  
 
* [http://www.freecycle.org/ freecycle] international, free stuff only.  
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* [http://www.quoka.de quoka.de] deutschland
 
* [http://www.quoka.de quoka.de] deutschland
 
* [http://www.loquo.com loquo.com] barcelona
 
* [http://www.loquo.com loquo.com] barcelona
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* [http://www.tutti.ch tutti.ch] CH
  
===party===
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===swap books and other things===
  * [http://zoneofthefree.blogspot.com zone of the free] all things 3, mp3s art etc...
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* [http://www.swaptrees.com swaptrees.com] comparison of book swapping websites in different countries
  * [http://shockraver.free.fr shockraver] wheres that teknival?
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* [http://www.readitswapit.co.uk readitswapit.co.uk] uk book swapping site  
  * [http://teknoparty.are.free.fr/ teknoparty.are.free.fr]
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  * [http://www.headfuk.net/ headfuk.net] lots of tech info, good breakcore mp3s, party info
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  * [http://www.squatjuice.com squatjuice] idiots talking
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  * [http://www.partyvibe.com partyvibe]
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<!--  * [http://www.manorsounds.co.uk/ manor sounds] site gone down -->
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===art/wierd===
 
  * [http://www.randomartists.org/ random artists] UK based underground art collective, make [http://www.taaexhibitions.org/ temporary autonomous art]
 
  * [http://www.4chan.org 4chan.org] anonymous image board
 
  * [http://www.deviantart.com deviantart]
 
  * [http://www.daedally.net jinyoung shin]
 
  * [http://www.blublu.org blublu]
 
  * [http://theporg.blogspot.com the porg]
 
  * [http://www.daytimetelevisuals.co.uk daytime televisuals]
 
  * [http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/ zoomquilt2]
 
  * [http://www.dissidentisland.org/ dissident island] radio
 
 
===squatting/travelling===
 
  * [http://www.squat.net squat.net]
 
  * [http://www.squatter.org.uk uk advisory service for squatters]
 
  * [http://www.landregistry.gov.uk uk land registry] [http://www.192.com 192.com] for researching buildings in the uk.
 
  * [http://www.hitchwiki.org hitchwiki.org] add info how to hitchhike in/out of your town
 
 
 
 
===other===
 
===other===
 
   open source ecology
 
   open source ecology
 
   RAM pump using water flow to pump a small amount of water
 
   RAM pump using water flow to pump a small amount of water

Latest revision as of 13:02, 14 February 2015

local announcements websites

For buying/selling secondhand, etc. Better than ebay because you meet the person face-to-face and put money in the hand. No third parties pinching fees, no stupid rules, no sending stuff from the other side of the planet. This requires some trust, which builds community.

swap books and other things

other

 open source ecology
 RAM pump using water flow to pump a small amount of water
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