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....
It’s been a while since I last looked at my AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article (primarily because I never actually used the article when I worked at IBM). Anyway, at some point AT&T reorganized their FTP server, breaking the download link – The rest of the article is still valid....
Most users are either using their ISP’s nameservers, running their own recursive nameserver (like me) or using a free alternative like OpenDNS or Google DNS. But which is better? Enter namebench: It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way...
I know there are lots of different backup tools for Linux and that many people recommend Mondo Rescue but I have never been able to make it work properly (my last attempt resulted in 8 DVD images totaling 31 GB – The source of the backup was 140GB), no doubt my own fault. So I decided to write down how I made backup and bare-metal restore using rdiff-backup work for my own future reference; and what better place to write it down than in my own blog :)...
I want to use ISO-8859-15 instead of UTF-8 because I use IRC a lot. For some reason the tip I posted a long time ago does not work in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (the trick was to add the correct locale and then selecting it from GDM). This seems to do the trick. After adding your locale to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local like so en_DK ISO-8859-15 regenerate locates $ sudo locale-gen --purge The next step is to change the locale globally...
The fix itself is the same as for Python 2.5 – only the line numbers have changed. Open the file /usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py and find the line containing en_gb (line 855) and add these lines (this works for Danish locales): 'en_dk': 'en_DK.ISO8859-1', 'en_dk.iso88591': 'en_DK.ISO8859-1', 'en_dk@euro': 'en_DK.ISO8859-15', In order to avoid this change getting overwritten by packages updates, I use dpkg-divert: $ sudo dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert /usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py.real /usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py $ sudo cp /usr/lib/python2....
Please go to the updated article. Since I wrote the post about running Windows applications on Linux with Sun xVM VirtualBox and SeamlessRDPI have been using the system almost daily to run some applications needed at work. It has been running well except for crashes in VirtualBox from time to time. Two new releases of VirtualBox has not fixed the problem.<p class="wp-caption-text"> Setting connection limit in Terminal Services </p> <p class="wp-caption-text"> Redirected local resource in RDP </p> ...
I går, efter flere måneders test, åbnede QuickDNS dørene for offentligheden. Hvorfor endnu en DNS-udbyder? Jeg har et ambivalent forhold til GratisDNS. Servicen er god nok (og prisen rigtig :) ), men jeg er ikke altid enig med Peter Larsen; specielt hans involvering i dotdk har gået mig på. Heldigvis ser det ud til at man nu kan vælge udbyder hvor det tekniske er i højsædet. QuickDNS er en non-profit-tjeneste, der tilbyder DNS-service til vores brugere....