Gnome 3 ?!
Back debian squeeze … not impressed with gnome 3 and ubuntu’s unity …. still waiting for elementary lucious luna.
Pidgin behind Proxy
Google Talk:
Modify>>Advanced
Connection Security: Use old-style SSL
Connection Port: 443
Connection Server: talk.google.com
Modify>>Proxy
HTTP
Host: e.g. 172.20.16.111
Port: e.g. 3128
Facebook:
Modify>>Advanced
Connection Security: Use old-style SSL
Connection Port: 443
Connection Server: chat.facebook.com
Modify>>Proxy
HTTP
Host: e.g. 172.20.16.111
Port: e.g. 3128
IRC:
Modify>>Proxy
HTTP
Host: e.g. 172.20.16.111
Port: e.g. 3128
Arch Linux
Nice cool fast liux distribution.
Big repository with newest packages.
Fast installing from precompiled binary packages.
Easy installation for competent users.
Nice init scripts well documented files.
Newer Kenyan Univerity protal
Mobile JKuat retires in favor of Univerisity Deck, a portal for most univerity websites in Kenya, and which will then acquire a url at PageStyler, our personal site schedule for launch .. next month.
App Engine Studio
Thinking of starting a small appengine studio, pagestyler for East African clients. This will be an opportunity to experiment with several python mpesa apis.
Inline colored information text in bash
#!/bin/bash
clnone="\033[0m"
clred="\033[31m"
clgreen="\033[32m"
echo -en "\r:: ${clred}Starting server ${clnone}"
sleep 1
echo -en "\r:: ${clred}Loading resources ${clnone}"
sleep 1
echo -en "\r:: ${clred}Loading commands ${clnone}"
sleep 1
echo -en "\r:: ${clred}Loading callbacks ${clnone}"
sleep 1
echo -e "\r:: ${clgreen}Server Started ${clnone}"
RPM based linux not for me
I installed tody new Mageia 1 but there is a one issue.
I cant connect to the internet using 3G/HSDPA modem. Linux detect it, i can select my provider from list, but cant connect.
This is my second or third try to use RPM based linux.
I looking for a rolling distribution like Debian but with newest packages.
Ultimate edition
While waiting for ultimate edition 3.0 I use last version 2.9.
Screenshot:
For more information about Ultimate visit UE Blog [here]
HDD problem
I bought a 500GB Seagate external disc.
Work well, but i cant boot it from my old mainboard with amibios.
I can boot from others USB devices like pendrive, but if i plugin hdd it freezy after scaning IDE devices.
I must unplug hdd and restart PC to boot OS back.
If you have any ideas. Please help me… I want install linux on my ext. HDD
PS. Probably something goes wrong with initialize emulated SCSI device.
I have the same issue with my 3G modem.
My backup script for linux.
I wrote script for full system backup using TAR.
[Source]
Create an empty file named backup-restore.sh and paste there a source code.
Save it. Give execution permission for that file (chmod +x backup-restore.sh ).
Open application using ./backup-restore.sh
Backups tars will be saved in current directory.
Screenshots
