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Jabber Notification

Kerry — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:24:00 +0000

A variation on the Gnome Notification theme with some jabber.

This time with some ruby:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
begin
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'xmpp4r/client'
rescue LoadError
  puts "Couldn't load xmpp4r, you probably need to install it.  Try gem install xmpp4r"
  exit
end

include Jabber
jid = JID::new('your_user@example.com')
password = 'xxx'
cl = Client::new(jid)
cl.connect
cl.auth(password)
to = "your_user@example.com"
subject = "Notification from `$USER`"
ARGV.each do | message |
   m = Message::new(to, message).set_type(:normal).set_id('1').set_subject(subject)
   cl.send m
end

Run it like:

emerge something_that_takes_ages; notify.rb "Emerge Done"

You’ll need ruby, ruby gems, and the xmpp4r gem.

Enjoy.

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

Gentoo HP Photosmart c5180

Kerry — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:01:00 +0100

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

Adobe Flash Player for Linux

Kerry — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:04:00 +0000

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.