MSS: My-Software-Stack

List of My Software Stack.

Privacy Related

BleachBit
- Destroy data
- https://www.bleachbit.org/
Process Monitor
- Show the event log of processes so that we could konw which process has done harmful things, like, scanning my private data.
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

Grammarly
- Grammar/Spell Checkers (English)
1Checker
- Grammar/Spell Checkers (English)
Mathematica
- mathematic related calculation
Gurobi
- Optimization Problem Solvers (ILP, LP, etc.)
- Provide programming interface for python
ESLWriter
- A paper writing helper, which is a search engine that shows how english words are used in published papers.
- http://www.eslwriter.org/
pdfcrop
- A cmdline program that remove white space margins of a pdf file.
SumatraPDF
- A lightweight pdf viewer, which does not lock the pdf file opened (allow modification to opened pdf files).
GoldenDict
- An open source dictionary software, which supports multiple dictionary formats.
- Useful English dictionaries include:
  - Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 6th Edition
  - Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition
  - Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners 2nd Edition
  - Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  - Longman Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus

Valgrind
- A tool suite for debugging, profiling and performance tuning, which could record call stacks, memory allocations, cpu cache behaviors, etc.
- http://valgrind.org/
Clonezilla
- Clone operating system, support Linux and Windows. It is very useful for replicating or recovering the operating system.
- https://clonezilla.org/
Cluster Monitoring Stack
- collectl or collectd
  - collect system status of single node.
- influxdb
  - store and gather status of multiple nodes.
- grafana
  - show the system status.
Zsh + oh-my-zsh
- Linux shell: powerful auto-completion.
htop or nmon
- Tools for showing the status of system.
tmux
- run background tasks on the server.

Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders
- A tool to share keyborad and mouse among multiple different computers.
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460
Vnote
- A note-taking application that knows programmers and Markdown better. Storing notes in plain text, so no lock-in.
- https://tamlok.github.io/vnote/zh_cn/
AutoHotKey
- Define hotkeys for the mouse and keyboard and remap keys. For example, changing capslock and right control with following lines:
- CapsLock::RControl
- RControl::CapsLock
- https://www.autohotkey.com/
Zotero
- A tool for collecting, organizing, and citing research papers.