Nokia N95 and UPNP
Finally i got it….at first it was a mess, some explanations on what does what: Media Server: it serves the content on the network Media Renderer: it renders the content served by a media server So I...
View ArticleSuperkaramba and Gentoo
Nowadays it seems that superkaramba works well, in the past it was heavy and buggy and I used to have conky. There are no particular reasons that made me switch to superkaramba , other than moving from...
View ArticleIndirizzo ip dinamico e dyndns opendns
Ogni qualvolta ci si collega ad internet viene assegnato un indirizzo ip pubblico al proprio computer/router, in Italia quasi tutte le connessioni adsl private hanno un ip dinamico che camba tutte le...
View ArticleUnmerge Kde in gentoo
Update emerge --ask -C `eix -C kde-base --only-names --installed` nano /etc/make.conf and delete kde from the USE flags, remove qt3support and qt4 also if you don’t need them anymore emerge -uavtqND...
View ArticlePixieLive
A friend of mine, Christian, has released PixieLive, a slax based live linux distro build with gentoo. It’s one of the few live distributions that support Intel GMA500, popular on netbooks like some...
View ArticleMove files in bash with tar and progress bar
Example gas@caldaia ~ $ my_move source_dir/ dest_dir/ 43.5GB at 61.0MB/s eta: 59s 91% [=========== ] You need to install “command line progress bar”, in gentoo it can be installed with emerge bar in...
View ArticleGnome places double entries
As a gentoo user I’ve been stuck with gnome 2.26 for ages and when I emerged gnome 2.28 I found out that two out of three nfs shares had double entries in the gnome places menu. It seems that there is...
View ArticleMove files with zenity progress bar
I’m playing with a script that moves files between two directories and does that by piping two tar commands, so called Fast Copy. You need zenity to see the progress bar, it is a work in progress as...
View ArticleCellProfiler and Gentoo
CellProfiler is free open-source software designed to enable biologists without training in computer vision or programming to quantitatively measure phenotypes from thousands of images automatically....
View ArticleFiles older than some days
I usually download some podcasts and I store them in a drectory with a tidy structure like: Podcast Title ---File Doing this sometimes I forget about some of podcast I downloaded, I know I downloaded...
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