Archive for the ‘ubuntu’ Category
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
If you are using Debian/Ubuntu and looking for a tool which enables you to view live system statistics then you probably want to give saidar a whirl:
sudo apt-get install saidar
Saidar shows you real-time CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information through a curses interface ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Posting this from Flock, which, if you haven't heard, is a browser geared towards the 'social web'. It's got an integrated blog poster, to write and post stuff direct to your blog - I'm using it now funnily enough. It has sidebars for Facebook, Flickr and MySpace, as well as ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
This is a bug fix release which fixes an issue with the applet not shutting down cleanly when a user logs off. I've also cleaned up the source package to allow an Ubuntu package to be created - thanks to Mitsuya Shibata.
Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.3.tar.gz
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Why is it that whenever you release anything you immediately find something wrong with it? Anyway, click the link below to download version 0.0.2 of my TermLauncher Applet.
Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.2.tar.gz
Here's what's fixed in this version:
src/termlauncher-applet.py:
- Get current profiles from /apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list
- Sort profiles alphabetically
Basically I now grab the list of profiles ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
I like to have a GNOME-Terminal profile for each machine I connect to (and there's a few of them) which automatically connects me to that machine on launch. The standard application launcher on the Ubuntu (and many other distros) default panel only gives you the option of launching a ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Rebooted my desktop for the first time in a while (needed to change a light fitting so had to turn off the electric). When it came back up, GDM had reverted to the Circles GNOME theme as opposed to the usual Ubuntu Human. I've noticed before that, whilst shutting down, ...
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