Facebook now supports XMPP. Yay. Using Facebook Chat in bitlbee is pretty straight forward (I am running 1.2.4, older versions of bitlbee require a bit more tweaking, consult the manual). For Facebook Chat through XMPP to work you need to set a Facebook username. In the &bitlbee channel account add jabber <username>@chat.facebook.com> <Facebook password> account on that’s it. Edit (04-03-2011): As some has pointed out, you need to input your username in lowercase....
For a better solution, see this article – I am keeping this post online because it makes it possible to implement distributed notifications with Perl modules included in the Ubuntu repositories. One of the things lacking (in my opinion at least) when using Irssi and GNU Screen is the lack of a way for Irssi to alert you when you are not looking at the terminal. I have looked at many implementations for libnotify (default in Ubuntu), Mumbles (Growl for Linux) and Dzen....
If you have installed Firefox 3.6, you will discover that Java is no longer working For i386 (32 bit Ubuntu): $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 50 For amd64 (64 bit Ubuntu): $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 50 ...
I normally don’t post stuff written by others but I just had to share this one. It’s from Slashdot.org and sums up my experience with outsourcing to India really well. Hello there! Please refer to your opening on job posting site. I, Rajesh Sharma, would like to apply for the job.[…]My hourly rates are $ 9 USD. We all like to pretend this isn’t here and it isn’t happening, but I would say conservatively half the job market has disappeared in 10 years due to this currency/standard of living imbalance....
Yes. That’s me – in our French spaceship...
Egentlig ikke en nyhed da virksomheden blev erklæret konkurs 24/12-2009, men jeg har først set det i dag. Som jeg tidligere har skrevet om har vi stadig et udestående på næsten 1700 kroner med dem. De penge er desværre nok tabt for evigt (der er altid mulighed for at gøre krav mod konkursboet, men umiddelbart skulle det krav have været fremsat til kurrator senest 16/01-2010, men vi vil forsøge alligevel, selvom chancerne er minimale)....
Note: This is known to work for a machine acting as masquerading firewall for an entire network. I wanted to block connections to certain outbound ports. After some trial and errors I found something that works Add the following to /etc/ufw/before.rules: -A ufw-before-forward -s <SOURCE IP> ! -d <LOCAL NET>/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport <DEST PORT> -j DROP it’s as simple as that. Remember to reload all the rules:...
Since I run irssi all the time, packing as many features into it as possible seems like a nice idea. So I use bitlbee to connect to Messenger, Google Talk/Jabber and ICQ and I have been using tircd (Twitter/irc gateway) and tweet.im (Twitter/Google Talk gateway) to connect to Twitter; but none of them works like I want them to. Today I stumbled across Twirssi, a script for irssi to interact with Twitter....