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The hack for the iPlayer from last week was closed by the BBC, but only by more obsfucation. Therefore, there is a patch for last weeks script which fixes the problem.

Reading the comments there are a few people out there working on making this better, and it looks like there is a script to generate an RSS feed for the iplayer website.

From the “it’s almost certainly been done better somewhere else” department, here is my script to fire off a Gnome Notification after a shell command finishes.

a python script:

#!/usr/bin/python
from pynotify import *
import sys

def notify(message=""):
    n = Notification("Command Line Completed", message)
    n.show()

init("cli notify")
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    notify(sys.argv[1])
else:
    notify()

Then just add it to your path and you can append it onto some command:

echo monkey && mynotify.py "some message"

You then get a notification like so:

BBC’s iPlayer is good, but this makes it better.

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As a pointer for anybody trying to get an HP Photosmart c5180 working on Gentoo, these instructions worked for me without any problems whatsoever.

This has been around for a couple of weeks now but I just got around to trying it out. It seems to have fixed my sound problems with videos in Firefox so it’s all good so far. If anybody knows of a Gentoo ebuild for it shout out.

Update: I’m an idiot, it’s available in ~x86 for Gentoo as netscape-flash.