• Netapplet hacking

    I found a nice applet by Robert Love that lets one handle his network connections conveniently. It has the inconvenient of working only with Suse, and requires a daemon to run. Since a while, I use a little sudo’ed bash script named gnet to make all this switching between eth0 and wlan0 and all these…

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  • Claws, Wifi and the kernel

    Sylpheed-Claws: We finally released, officialy, the 1.9.6 version which is gtk2 ! Yay :-) Comments on the mailing-list are quite encouraging. Wifi & the kernel: After another kernel upgrade, Linux works flawlessly with sleep on my iBook. I needed only two USB-related patches so that the USB subsystem survives sleeps ok: one by Paul Mackerras, that…

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  • Itunes music store, on Linux

    I just tried pyMusique; after having subscribed and wasted 0.99? due to a bug in the saving code (probably due to something in my python setup), I downloaded one song. Got a .m4a file that plays well with mplayer and rhythmbox, and is convertible to mp3. Nice work! Update: Too bad, Apple fixed this. Well…

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