It’s quite humbling when you receive an e-mail with….

< quote mail-from: Jeremy Huddleston>
… my guess is you’re a bit new to this sort of thing …
< /quote>

I’ve been aggressively using Linux for about a year now, & have been fairly familiar with it for nearly 3, now I wouldn’t say I’m a guru, but I thought I could hold my own - man I was wrong ! Oh well at least I wasn’t shot down in flames

RSS is cool, no aruments, it just is The thing is it’s just dawned upon me that for “joe windows” user it’s not entirely obvious.

A little research shows that a lot of companies have realised this & tried to make some money. So to make things easier you can syndicate with me using your favorite web aggregator, the following lonks are on my blog side bar

Personally tho’ I’ll stick to Liferea

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster feedster:d4d37486ab44cbdd988f0756d24401af

I’ve been looking for one of these for ages, an RSS feed reader for my Mobile Phone. When I was running my Nokia 6600 the only one I could find was FeedBurner’s MFB the only problem with that was… it was gonna cost me money !!!! … yeah right… as a linux fan, am I ever gonna pay for software… no opensource is always the right choice

Anyway, by luck I got the right google search syntax , behold the 3rd enty was RSS Orbit / Free Download , a quick browse round lead me to blogplanet.net – nice

I found this blog post yesterday on Robert Scoble’s Blog….

Bug Bash

..is a new comic strip & I actually laughed out lound at my desk !

If found some cool stuff on google today; firstly labs.google.com , this seems to be a repositry of all the new stuff google are working on, including Google History Search and my faviourite Google Personal Homepage.

Now GPH is a lot like yahoo’s my.yahoo.com (which I happen to like) , initially you can tell it’s not quite as developed, which ends up as a bonus because it doesn’t feel as cluttered. Another thing I found quite quickly was the “drag & drop” re-arrangement of the display, very neat .

XFCE 4.2.2 has been released, and to be honest I’ve struggled to get the rpm rebuilds done… just no time :’( !

Anyway the official announcement was here
http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2005-May/000021.html

You can update your whitebox installation using [LINICKX].com ! Check that you have something like this in your /etc/yum.conf…

Then… from a shell do:

…and your done

I’ve found this cool MP3 steaming software, easier to setup than icecast/ices & more appropiate for home users. Kplaylist uses mysql & php to give you a multi user website for your music directory, you can build playlists & stream music, and the album art is a nice touch. It even supports mp3 streaming over ssl, if only I can get the SSL patch for xmmsto work !

Check it out @www.kplaylist.net/

Hardware stuff, especially laptops is usually window$/manufacturer specifc so getting some of it work work can be a bit of a pain. In FC1 low batteries & standby is handled by APM, in FC2 upwards APM is replaced with ACPI & this is a quick text on getting going.

There are two folders & a service :

• /etc/acpi/actions
• /etc/acpi/events
• /etc/init.d/acpid

The service , I think runs in the background monitoring the hardware, you can then put events into /etc/acpi/events and get things to happen when the deamon spots them .

I thought my site was missing something, perhaps a little bit of dynamic text , so now we have it ! Below my logo random one liner quotes will appear

I found the basics at totallyphp but it only read the quotes from an array, not a file, so: I added the file function & turned the script into a function

If you too want simple random quotes to include the source is here. The usage is simple, create a file called quotes.txt with quotes, a new one on each line (make it world readable) ; by default if you then call quotes.php it’ll choose a line & print the text… if you comment out echo randomquote(); you could include quote.php in other code

These are now on gnome-look.org you and download and slate them on their comminy site.

Direct Links:

• GnomeGrid
• CodenameGnome

It’s the usual story, bored in a travel lodge finishing some blog drafts / projects I’ve got saved.

PHP-Cat is an example of how one can use the browser php script that I published; PHP-Cat is a web based tool that allows you to browse the file system of the webserever / host , you can then select a text file and view it through your broswer. What’s clever is that you are not just limited to files in a webservers root directory, you can view any* directory ! (Needless to say, this script cannot by-pass filesystem security, see comment below.)

I second attempt at some wallpaper art, derived from GnomeGrid this version is much closer to what I imagined. Unfortunatley it’s still tooo big to upload to gnome-look so I can’t get any feedback easily the question will be… do art.gnome.org like it ?

I’m working away from home a lot at the moment so site updates are slow.

Anway one of the things I’ve needed was a script that could ping stuff from a Nokia Box … I’m quite proud of my work so here it is… simply write a file called “ips.txt” with ip addresses in it eg:

ftp or sftp the files onto the nokia ( /var/admin is a good place) and run ./nokia.sh… you’ll get something like…

*If you have problems running nokia.sh, like ./nokia.sh: Permission denied. then do a chmod 700 nokia.sh