PyLinux Hub

Gnome 3 ?!

kelonye — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:58:31 +0000

Back debian squeeze … not impressed with gnome 3 and ubuntu’s unity …. still waiting for elementary lucious luna.

Tagged: elementary, gnome2, gnome3, luna

Pidgin behind Proxy

kelonye — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:55:43 +0000

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

orneo1212 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:08:26 +0000

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.

Tagged: arch, linux

Newer Kenyan Univerity protal

kelonye — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:45:49 +0000

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

kelonye — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:48:46 +0000

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

orneo1212 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:54:53 +0000


#!/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}"

Tagged: bash, inline, linux

RPM based linux not for me

orneo1212 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:14:27 +0000

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.

Tagged: linux, mageia, rpm

Ultimate edition

orneo1212 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:56:01 +0000

While waiting for ultimate edition 3.0 I use last version 2.9.

Screenshot:

For more information about Ultimate visit UE Blog [here]

Tagged: ubuntu, ultimateedition

HDD problem

orneo1212 — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:10:10 +0000

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.

Tagged: amibios, bios, boot, external hdd, hdd, problem, seagate

My backup script for linux.

orneo1212 — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:22:28 +0000

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

Tagged: backup, bash, linux