Jun 24
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I really wanted to create a plugin for Twitter and XChat2, but I decided to get lazy. Only caveat for using this is that you have to escape your own text.
Bash Script, I named it twit, made it executable and placed it in my PATH.
#!/bin/bash
nohup curl -s -u YOURUSER:YOURPASS --data status="`echo $@`" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Now this doesn’t return anything to the console, and it nohups it so you don’t have to wait for it to do its stuff.
wstearns@ubuntu:~$ twit Ok, now that I have bash working. I am happy. :-\)
Notice how I had to escape the ). So, all there is to do in XChat is add a Settings->Advanced->User Commands. Now just add a command, I did mine with a name of TWIT and a command of exec twit &2. To try it out now you just do a /twit Hmmm...let me see if my wrapper works in xchat now..
So there we go, I have my cheap interface on my Ubuntu box in both apps that I use the most for the price of one.
Jun 22
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I have taken Opera 9.5 for a test drive on both my local platforms, Windows Vista SP1 and Ubuntu 8.04. Browser loading speed appears to be faster on both platforms than FF3, and as well the rendering performance appears to be faster in general. However, there seems to be some rendering issues with Opera or at least some artifacts.
On NewEgg Opera has issues with rendering picture changes on the product pages as the mouse hovers over the various images. It at least feels jerky the first time it hovers over a different image. Probably a precaching difference in FF3, as it looks really smooth on FF3. This same performance issues appear on the larger image screens as well.
On Yahoo! Mail Opera appears to have the same kinda jerkiness with the new Ajaxy version of the mail platform. As I was marking messages in the window as spam, the tab bars above the grid would disappear and reappear. I would say the FF3 and IE7 don’t suffer from the same condition.
Now, I’m sure I can find some sites that FF3 falls on its face and Opera excels, but I can obviously see that Opera 9.5 is solid performer. I do like the interface a bit better, but the extensibility and familiarity of FF3 is hard for me to turn away at. At least this time I can say that I won’t uninstall Opera yet. Last version I dropped it like a hot potatoe. :-)
—Edit
Oops, forgot to mention that Opera didn’t seem to like using a proxy.pac on my work VPN. However it did fine when you provided a static proxy server.
Jun 21
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Well, if I were to judge by the download speeds my fiber connection gets to their mirror, I would say not. I’ll withhold judgment until it finally gets here. Maybe I’ll hit the grocery store first. I have plenty of time.
Jun 19
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I’ve been wanting to setup a new Ubuntu server here at the house for testing applications locally without having to run a VM. I wanted to get something small and fairly silent. Luckily, or tragically, however you look at it, my youngest son found out that sitting on a laptop isn’t a good idea. Now the boys don’t have their own laptop. :-)
Jun 19
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Well, I’m not sure if it’s one of my addons, but when I’m on gmail and doing my business Firefox 3 appears to occasionally suffer from a leak.
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