Continuing from the preview blog post on Gmail notifications, I wondered if there was a way to link Skype into libnotify. Skype uses its own notification system by default which doesn't fit with the Gnome / Unity desktop, and looks kind of crappy. I could start a rant about Skype now, and the fact the [...]
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Improving Skype notifications on Linux
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Pretty Gmail notifications for Ubuntu
I've recently gone back to Ubuntu (10.11), and in my new installation wondered if there was an app I could install which gave me Gmail notifications via the default notification system (libnotify). I was a bit surprised to find that there wasn't, so I wrote a script in bash that does it: gmailpopup My script [...]
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Living with Gnome 3
Here are some tips on how to make Gnome 3 behave a bit more like Gnome 2, to help you transition into this new and unfamiliar territory. Most of them are from this thread on Fedora Forums. Tip 1: Maximise and Minimise If you thought Ubuntu were naughty moving the buttons to the left, you [...]
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HTC, you fail.
I'm the owner of a popular Android phone from yesteryear, the HTC Desire. It's been out for almost exactly one year from today and originally shipped with Eclair (Android 2.1), and was later updated to Froyo (2.2). HTC just announced via facebook that they will not be updating the HTC Desire any longer. Apparently it [...]
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Unity (Ubuntu 11.04)
I am writing this post using Ubuntu 11.04 using the new ‘Unity Desktop’. In the interest of fairness and because I really don’t want to say goodbye to Ubuntu, I have been giving it a try for a while to see if I can adapt. Let me start with the criticism. There seem to be [...]
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A cunning problem with for loops
I came across a cunning little problem with for loops where the values being parsed contain spaces, and can offer a couple of solutions to it. I'll explain what I mean with some code. If you md5sum a bunch of files, you get this kind of output: I wanted to iterate through a list of [...]
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Fedora 14 on a Samsung N210 netbook
Here are some musings on getting Fedora 14 working on a Samsung N210 netbook. Why Samsung N210? It's undeniable the Next Big Thing is tablets. I love new tech and I kind of want an Android Honeycomb tab, but they are still waaaay over priced. I considered getting an iPad as Android tabs are still [...]
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Cycle London, with Android
A few weeks ago I started using the London cycle hire scheme, aka 'Boris Bikes'. My journey to work previously included a 15 minute journey underground from Victoria to Embankment, but now I do it overground on a bike which is considerably more enjoyable (provided you don't mind cycling in heavy traffic) as well as [...]
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Monitor AJP threads on multiple Tomcat servers
Here's a script to gather AJP thread usage from a farm of tomcat servers, in my case I needed to query 120 tomcat instances spread over 30 servers. It uses a freely avaiable JMX command line client to query the currentThreadsBusy of the JVM. There are perhaps more elegant solutions to do this, I needed [...]
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Automatic X forwarding
At work I've found I often need to bring up X applications like jvisualvm, or HPSUM, while I administer Linux servers from my Windows 7 machine. This is how I automatically set the $DISPLAY variable on the bash session to point to my machine: Add the following to the end of your .bash_profile: Then on [...]
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