Posted in Geekery on Oct 11th, 2010
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 on my ThinkPad and the only issue so far is that TrackPoint scrolling had stopped working. To re-enable it I used GPointingDeviceSettings and set the following settings: The important change was to set the wheel emulation’s button to 2, not 4 as it appeared to have been set to. [...]
Posted in Geekery on Sep 6th, 2010
If you use an SMS gateway, such as Clickatell, to send SMS from your website or computer, you might want to set up your own simple return path for people to reply to those SMS and have them emailed to you. With an always-on Ubuntu 10.04 machine, an old mobile phone and a cheap pre-paid [...]
Posted in Geekery on Aug 13th, 2010
GNU gettext is used by many open source projects for translation support. If you need to just do a find and replace in gettext source files, try this out to do a whole directory at once: 12345for i in *.po; do echo "Processing $i" msgfilter –no-wrap sed -e "s/OLD_TEXT/NEW_TEXT/g" < $i > /tmp/gettext [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 24th, 2010
Wireshark is a network protocol analyser, or packet sniffer, available for Ubuntu 10.04 via a simple sudo apt-get install wireshark. However to use it correctly, we need to change some permissions to ensure we’re not running the whole application as root. The following commands will let the adm group run Wireshark without elevated privileges – [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 11th, 2010
ABC’s The Drum is the ABC’s analysis and opinion site. It has a diverse range of contributors and I’ve found the RSS feed a little too active for my liking. That said, I love the latest presenter of Media Watch, Jonathan Holmes, and I wanted to read just his articles posted on The Drum. I [...]
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