Computer - #sh Blog

Most of the big screens in trainstations and so on, are connected via Wireless LAN. So not only public can see the screen, but also can use them for their own purposes. All it needs is a WiFi device and a little knowledge how to access the screen. Like this guy obviously has:

Reclaim the screens.

Today I just stumbled upon a blog entry mentioning another Last.fm Radio-client using GTK+. I already knew last-exit for a while, I even blogged about that one already. Though last-exit didn't become really stable yet, even in the newer version 5. So I just gave Vagalume a shot today. It looks quite alright eventhough it needs more testing to tell about it's stability.

If you are running Linux and want the world to know it (or at least contribute to statistics), you can register yourself and your linux-machines on the Linux Counter website.
As a result you get your individual and nicely designed badge like this :

Appart from that, Linux-user statistics get more correct of course. So the rest of the world can see, actually somebody is using Linux.
So go ahead and register yourself...

To spice up your daily communication, Spicebird was designed with chat and News-Feed integration. It's the perfect tool as a lightweight Evolution replacement and more focused on the home user. Rather than to bring all the important business features it's made to integrate all your personal Topics in one piece of Software. It comes even with a neat start-screen to give you an overview of what's currently going on in all departments.
Anyway, I didn't want to write a long story here. Spicebird was hyped all over the web those days. So most things are probably explained. Only one thing that still iches me, is that I can't make use of the mail and the chat feature yet. Because usually all my connections (Jabber, IMAP, SMTP) work on SSL. But Spicebird seems to still have issues with SSL/TLS handling. Probably it works already with the "official" certificates. But not with CA-Cert ones, even if you import the Root-Cert yourself.
So, I hope I will have more luck with that, when the beta phase is over!

So far it looks not at all bad!
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Elisa ist der Name einer Media-Center Software, für Linux und andere Plattformen. Das Projekt ist allerdings noch sehr jung, macht aber optisch schon einen recht schicken Eindruck.
Bei meiner Testinstallation der aktuellen Version, lief es etwas unperformant und ließ sich so nur unflüssig bedienen. Aber das was sich da entwickelt, scheint in die richtige Richtung zu gehen. Coole Gimnicks sind vor allem die F-Spot und Youtube (+andere Webdienste) Integration. Es gibt verschiedene Ansichts-Modi, unter anderem auch die vom neuen MacOS bekannte »Karussel«- bzw. Slideshow-Ansicht.

Ich hab euch natürlich auch ein paar nette Screenshots gemacht.

I didn't know, that filesharing via BitTorrent reaches back into the early 1970s, when obviously a torrent-file was uploaded already. So, I guess I just discovered one of the oldest torrents on earth, I guess!


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Oops, what happened there?

The RIAA-Website obviously got hacked.