I have been using Conky as my desktop monitoring widgets for quite some time now. Before this, I’ve been using few applications like screenlets and gdesklets, but there’s a lot of drawbacks on these applications. Among them were limited customizations, it’s difficult to develop your own widgets, unable to find widgets you’re looking for, and …
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Extend Transmission Torrent with Scripts
Transmission is one of my favourite bittorrent client. However, it’s lack the feature of running command(s) before or after you have finished downloading. Luckily we can improvise this with the help of transmission-remote, a command based client for transmission, and along with some Linux bash scripting. Below I have created a simple bash script. What …
How To Share Media Between Xbox 360 and Linux
I’ve got a little project going on in the past few days. I have a reasonable amount of media; movies, mp3′s and family pictures in my Linux desktop, Ubuntu 8.10. Would it be nice if I could stream all the movies and music directly from the Linux machine to my Xbox 360? This is a …
Moonlight: Microsoft Silverlight in Linux
Need to view Microsoft Silverlight enabled sites, but you’re on Linux, and running Firefox as the web browser? Have no fear, Moonlight is here. Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix or Linux platform. The current release version is 1.0. All you have to do is, just go to their site, …
Automated scp on Linux
Scenario You would like to automate the export of SQL dump files from one Linux server to another using scp. These dump files are to be generated and exported once every two weeks. You also wish to archive these dump files on the source server. So let’s say the servers and directories are as follows: …
