Today the classic, and old, Common Desktop Environment (a.k.a. CDE) was released into the Open Source world.
You can get the very alpha version at SourceForge.
I haven’t been able to get a running version by now, but I keep trying.
Good job, guys.
git status in the prompt
Working with git a lot I decided I needed some git status in my prompt.
I searched the web and some solutions where almost what I wanted and this one by Sebastian Celis came very close.
But it didn’t work with my version of zsh, because that didn’t seem to understand the =~ operator.
I also think Sebastian makes things over complicated and so I changed some things aroud.
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New version of We-Blog
Today I released version 0.8 of We-Blog.
I created a Google project and a Google discussion group.
Version 0.8 is now the stable branch and 0.9 the development branch.
What’s new? Well, to be really honest, not that much. I fixed some minor bugs and did a lot of code cleanup. Although the original code of Jaromir was very nice, there was some room for improvement. I removed a lot of double functions and variables and put them all together in a We.
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Finding key codes on Linux
It often happens that I get into a situation where I need to know key codes of pressed keys. On my Mac that’s simple. Just use the Key Codes by Many Tricks.
But on Linux I constantly was trying to find out which key produced what.
So I ended up writing a program for that. I started of in the shell, but that ended up being rather tricky and unnecessary complicated.
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New header
Today I’ve posted a new version of the header program.
Nothing really fancy happened, just added support for zonefiles, in
this case the Bind ones.
It’s available at the usual places.
sed tips and tricks
I’m creating a Puppet Starter Kit with some standard manifests included and a complete set of documentation. All documentation should be written in Markdown and will be served by Markdoc. But I want to generate all Markdown files from the Puppet manifests, so I only need to document the manifest file. Generating the Markdown is not that difficult, except that I kept ending up with empty lines at the top of the manifest code and I wanted to get rid of those.
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Puppet updates
When working with Puppet and a VCS (like git and SVN) it’s nice to have a simple way of updating the Puppet tree.
My tree is always in /etc/puppet and owned by user and group puppet. User puppet is allowed to checkout the complete tree from git or subversion.
I have created two one-liners to update the complete tree and make sure all rights are still correct.
update_svn ~ \{.
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Eeepc battery script for 2.6.24 AND 2.6.25
The new kernel for the EeePC (2.6.25) has deprecated the /proc/acpi/battery interface, so I had to write a new script for use in my own zsh prompt.
The script will work in both 2.6.24 and 2.6.25, so without further ado, here it is. It is written as a function for easy inclusion in any prompts.
#!/bin/zsh bat() { PROC=/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 SYS=/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent STATE= # dc: design capacity, rc: remaining capacity if [ -f $PROC/info ] then STATE=$PROC/state # 2.
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