I’ve recently upgraded my home PC from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. One of the big benefits (apart from getting the very latest Firefox and Thunderbird packages) is that F9 features KDE 4, the latest version of the KDE desktop window manager.
Fedora 9
To upgrade, I followed the excellent instructions at http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f9-tips.php. The key point is [...]
I was recently reminded of the excellent ‘units’ program, available with all good Unix systems.
Units will convert quantities expressed in one unit in to another unit. Here’s an example:
$ units
2439 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units
You have: 12 miles
You want: kilometres
* 19.312128
[...]
Previously on Twin Peaks I wrote about the problems I was having with the Lightning calendar add-on for the Thunderbird email client, to the extent that I had to un-install the add-on and the associated Google Data Provider add-on (which synchronises calendars between Lightning and Google Calendar).
I’m pleased to report that since the release of [...]
RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way to keep up to date with frequently changing websites.
Let me give you an example. This web page changes every time I write a new post (admittedly not that often). Rather than periodically checking this page for updates (or, more likely, forgetting all about it [...]
Today I was in the unfortunate position of not being able to use Thunderbird to read my email. I recently installed the Lightning calendar addon together with the Provider for Google Calendar addon. What’s supposed to happen is the calendar within Thunderbird (provided by the Lightning addon) is automatically updated from (and updates) my Google [...]
I have recently programmed my Nokia N95 phone to control my music player (the rather marvellous snackAmp) remotely.
SnackAmp sits on my Linux-based server box. It has a remote control feature (details here) which accepts control strings from a TCP socket. I wrote a Python script which runs on the phone to open a Wi-Fi connection [...]