I know the folks who worked on this and I’ve been alpha testing this for a while and loving it so I’m really glad to see it now in the wild:
New Del.icio.us Firefox extension
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Gumstix
Tiny little 400 MHz XScale computers with Linux 2.6, CompactFlash, Ethernet, and Bluetooth for less than $200. Run a web server, Asterisk, etc.
Quicksilver: Cmd+Escape
Just stumbled upon a gem from 43folders.
Cmd+Escape lets you send the current selection to Quicksilver.
So I can highlight a file in Finder, hit Cmd+Escape, and then have all Quicksilver’s actions at my disposal.
Learn Ruby through song
Courtesy of oddball Ruby personality Why the Lucky Stiff (yes, that’s his name), here’s a medley of two songs that he did with his band, The Thirsty Cups:
The Parts of Ruby + Chunky Bacon.mp3
You won’t get the “chunky bacon” reference unless you’ve read Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby.
htop: top on steroids
Like the classical “top” Unix system monitor, but prettier and with a few nice features like horizontal and vertical scrolling and easier to kill and renice processes.
iFolder: no, Samba: yes
Last night, Nicole needed to back up some important work documents on her Windows laptop. This seemed like a good time to look into iFolder, but I quickly noticed that they don’t offer .deb packages and the instructions for building and installing on Dapper looked like a bit of a nightmare.
Instead, I ended up setting up a Samba share for her on my Linux box. Samba seems to have a reputation for being a beast to configure, but I knew that Ubuntu came installed with Samba and GNOME has a “Shared Folders” panel that offers sharing via SMB. It wasn’t too bad, once I figured out that I needed to create a Samba user and password via the smbpasswd command (I didn’t see a way to do this in the GUI).
Now I’d like to set up an automated backup for her – I’m thinking that I’ll probably create a cron job for her in Cygwin.
Lisp: UnCommon Web framework now easily installable
A few months ago, while I was on a Lisp kick, I looked into installing and trying the UnCommon Web framework but I was put off on how difficult it was to install.
Well, it looks like some folks have worked to make it easy to install. At this nice page, they offer a UCW “boxset”, which you untar and it has everything you need to get going. I tried it and it worked like a charm with sbcl on Ubuntu. The same page offers a tutorial, which looks good, but I haven’t tried it yet.