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iPlayer hacked again

Kerry — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:37:00 +0000

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.

Command line Gnome Notification

Kerry — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:38:00 +0000

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 iPlayer downloads for Linux

Kerry — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:59:00 +0000

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

Found via

OSS License for Java

Kerry — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:43:00 +0100

Looks like Java(J2SE) is getting a License makeover so it can be distributed on Linux and OpenSolaris.

Developed in consultation with, and for use by, the various GNU/Linux communities, the new license allows distributors to ship Sun’s Java SE 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as installable packages for their operating systems.

I think this is probably about 5 years too late. Python has made a big impact in the Gnome world, and Mono is making inroads. Java really should have been there making integration with the desktop work a long time ago.

Here is the Sun press release.

Via: Tim Bray

Bash Tips

Kerry — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:02:00 +0100

All About Linux: Bash Shell Shortcuts … The most commonly used shortcuts are listed…

Pretty useful. Looked at some of the other entries on the blog and didn’t seem that interesting.

Gnome Development Forums

Kerry — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:08:00 +0000

GnomeDev.com

A new forum for all things related to Gnome development. Will be interesting to see if it gains much traction. There isn’t much content on there right now, but there are some pointers to tutorials and things for developing in Gnome.