After completing my script to deliver Irssi notifications to the Linux desktop using Perl (IPC::Message::Minivan and Desktop::Notify), I wondered if this framework could be extended to Windows (since I have a Windows desktop at work).
I have previously looked at Growl (on Linux) and think it is cumbersome to get the notifications across the network – [...]
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Irssi notifications in Windows using Growl and Minivan
Irssi notifications using Desktop Notifications and Minivan
I was pretty happy with solution to get notifications from Irssi though it had some shortcomings.
A couple of days ago a colleague made me aware of a Perl modules written by another colleague (Anton Berezin) called IPC::Message::Minivan which, it turns out, is perfect for my notification script. Basing the notifications on Minivan combine the [...]
Facebook Chat in bitlbee
Facebook now supports XMPP. Yay.
Using Facebook Chat in bitlbee is pretty straight forward (I am running 1.2.4, older versions of bitlbee require a bit more tweaking, consult the manual).
For Facebook Chat through XMPP to work you need to set a Facebook username.
In the &bitlbee channel
account add jabber <username>@chat.facebook.com> <Facebook password>
account on
that’s it.
Facebook users are [...]
Yet another way to get Irssi notifications on your Linux desktop
For a better solution, see this article – I am keeping this post online because it makes it possible to implement distributed notifications with Perl modules included in the Ubuntu repositories.
One of the things lacking (in my opinion at least) when using Irssi and GNU Screen is the lack of a way for Irssi to [...]
Ubuntu: Fixing Java in Firefox 3.6
If you have installed Firefox 3.6 (for instance from the Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Build Team PPA) you will discover that Java is no longer working
For i386 (32 bit Ubuntu):
$ sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 50
For amd64 (64 bit Ubuntu):
$ sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 50
Updated MoreAdorned template for Movie Sheet Generator
A nice soul has converted rodfeli’s MoreAdorned Tvixie template for use with Movie Sheet Generator.
I have tweaked the template further and I am pretty happy with the results
Changes compared to the original
Removed effects from cover and added static cover backgroup
Changed fonts
Added support for media flags – only two since it looks nicer
Download the updated template
UFW: Blocking outgoing connections
Note: This is known to work for a machine acting as masquerading firewall for an entire network.
I wanted to block connections to certain outbound ports. After some trial and errors I found something that works
Add the following to /etc/ufw/before.rules:
-A ufw-before-forward -s <SOURCE IP> ! -d <LOCAL NET>/24 -p tcp -m tcp –dport <DEST PORT> -j [...]
Using ISO-8859-15 encoding with Twirssi
Since I run irssi all the time, packing as many features into it as possible seems like a nice idea.
So I use bitlbee to connect to Messenger, Google Talk/Jabber and ICQ and I have been using tircd (Twitter/irc gateway) and tweet.im (Twitter/Google Talk gateway) to connect to Twitter; but none of them works like I [...]
AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article updated
It’s been a while since I last looked at my AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article (primarily because I never actually used the application when I worked at IBM).
Anyway, at some point AT&T reorganized their FTP server, breaking the download link – The rest of the article is still valid.
Cool tool: namebench
Most users are either using their ISP’s nameservers, running their own recursive nameserver (like me) or using a free alternative like OpenDNS or Google DNS.
But which is better? Enter namebench:
It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, [...]
