http://ferama.netsons.org/wp ... some words about open source :) Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:51:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The weekend brought to me a new shining toy to play with! I've installed Arch Linux on my external USB hard drive :) . Now I have a "mobile" Arch to use from any usb capable to boot machine (with some retouch of course). First Impressions I must say that I'm ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2008/02/16/i-did-it-arch-linux-on-my-external-usb-disk/ I was wondering if a rolling based distro could be stable enough to met my needs. I use Ubuntu since dapper, and I've used suse, fedora, redhat, mandrake and others since my first steps into the linux distros world. Almost all this distros caused me troubles during upgrade process except ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2008/02/14/rolling-release-vs-time-based-release/ I'm very proud to annunce that cGmail 0.5 is out :) Let me introduce you what's new in this version. For the user Only few (but not less important) cGmail 0.5 changes are visible by users. cGmail 0.5 support for gmail was improved a lot. Now cGmail include support for "gmail ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2008/01/18/cgmail-05-released/ cGmail 0.5 seems to be almost ready to be released. Anyway some testing will be appreciated. If you want to test the "will be 0.5" please download it from here. What need to be tested? Gmail for your domain now should work out of the box thanks to Keith Cirkel comment on ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2008/01/08/cgmail-05-call-for-testing/ In bash scripting to require user input we must use the read function. For example to read an username we would make something like this: read -p "Give me the username " username; But what about passwords? Using the read as shown, the password will be readable on the terminal emulator and ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/12/07/bash-how-to-get-a-password-without-displaying-it-on-the-terminal/ Today I've released a maintence version of cGmail. This version include some nasty bugs fix. No sound bug (Now it should work well) Pop3 bug. This bug prevented cGmail to notify correctly incoming mails on pop3 accounts. Now it works :) Autostart option bug. In cGmail 0.4 autostart option in preferences menu don't ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/11/28/cgmail-041-released/ I use ubuntu for almost everything but I still maintain Windows Xp in dual boot for audio software as Guitar Rig. In this days I've finally found a solution and now I can run Guitar Rig on my Ubuntu box smoothly and without problems. Here a shot on my ubuntu box: This ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/11/14/guitar-rig-on-ubuntu-gutsy-howto/ I've noticed that the sound_play method from the gnome python package no longer work on Gutsy release and this is a bad thing. As you probabily have read I've released the 0.4 version of cGmail. cGmail by default prefer this method to play sounds on new incoming messages (that worked ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/11/09/gnomesound_play-method-do-not-work-on-ubuntu-gutsy/ Do you already know cGmail? And do you know that I develop that cool app :D ? Well I'm happy to announce that cGmail 0.4 is out. Please visit cGmail home page at http://cgmail.tuxfamily.org/ for more info about what cGmail is and to give it a try. What's new? Well this version ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/11/05/cgmail-04-released/ Usually I prefer tabs indentation rather than space indentation for python code. Unfortunately often python code from open source projects or code that you can find on the net use space indentation. To convert from one to the other you can simply use a vim substitution. Example: :%s/ /\t/g It's ... http://ferama.netsons.org/wp/index.php/2007/11/03/tip-vim-and-python-indentation/