Sal Cangeloso’s writeup (three reasons to use GNOME) inspired me to talk about the flip side of the coin. Yes, I know it’s smug to pretend that there’s only KDE and GNOME; yet KDE is my desktop of choice, and here’s why. Of course, Sal’s right when he says lists are the effective way to convey information in writing, so I’ll take a page from his book and do so:
Fantastic! As long as you have a WAV or MP3 file, the SoX package, and the GStreamer gstreamer-plugins-ugly package installed, you can use these scripts to convert from MP3 or WAV to AMR, and back from AMR to WAV. Perfect for creating ringtones for your mobile phone out of sound clips or favorite songs!
Hello! Here’s a nifty article on the Server management series. Today, we’ll learn how to automate Nagios service checks via SSH, even when the remote server does not support password-less (key-based) SSH logins.
The brute force method:
#!/bin/bash
while true ; do ps ax | grep -v grep | grep " ktorrent" || \ ktorrent --nofork --nocrashhandler sleep 5 done
Save this script and make it executable. Leave it running overnight. Lather, rinse, repeat. Oh, nono, don’t do that — the script will take care of the lather, rinse and repeat for you.
Para hacer esta maravilla: YouTube - XGL/COMPIZ
¿Y para qué necesito dos monitores? Pues para esta maravilla que están viendo. Ya la tengo instalada en mi computador y funciona tal y como se ve. Pero con dos monitores es mucho más vacán!
And, apart from being seriously buggy right now, it’s fantastic.
It’s joy.
Well, I just took it upon myself to build a binary i386 FC5 RPM for it, out of the Rawhide RPM source package. Since no one in the net seems to have it… damn, well I just had to build it myself!
Here it is: libwnck packages to satisfy the Compiz dependency in FC5 AIGLX.
By the way: has anyone noticed that using the proprietary NVIDIA driver with the Composite X extension enabled causes text on-screen (say, in menus, window contents, and stuff) to disappear until hovered with the mouse?
Since I couldn’t find them prepared, I decided to prepare them myself.
Get them. Enjoy. You’re welcome.
