First, Firestarter. Its an elegant gui application (gtk) to configure and monitor a linux firewall. It manipulates iptables rules under the hood of course. I'm finding it most useful on my desktop machines (and laptops) where my firewalling needs are simple.

Second, Vim Outliner. Vim is my long-time favorite text editor. And vimoutliner provides some nice keyboard macros to do simple outlining. Its going to make maintaining my TODO list much quicker. Bonus: it comes with a plugin to add checkboxes to your outlines.

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