Defensive Belligerence

Well, I finally figured out why I couldn’t find the scripting features in Nautilus. Apparently there is a bug in the newer versions of Nautilus, that require you to place an executable script in the ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder, before you’ll get the script feature in your context menus.

I finally got around to writing a new version of the JunkSorter script, which will sort your files into the appropriate folders based on the MIME type of the file. Overall, it probably took a little over two hours, but it should be worth it. I’ll be tweaking it the next couple of weeks, to add more error checking, and improve it’s speed. Any Gnome users that want to use it, feel free to grab it. I listed in the script what it’s requirements are. Here’s a Fedora rpm for the Shared-Mime-Info package from the freedesktop.org, that’s needed to capture the MIME info:

shared-mime-info-0.12-0.fdr.1.i386.rpm

md5sum

As with other rpm’s I create, you’ll need my PGP Public Key to verify the package, if you don’t already have.

Update: Removed rpm, since it’s included in most distributions now.

Finally got around to making an rpm for the GKrellmMMS plugin for GKrellM. Here’s the rpm for any Fedora user that wants to control xmms from GKrellM:

gkrellmms-2.1.12-0.fdr.1.i386.rpm

md5sum

You will probably need to import my PGP Public Key to verify that the package hasn’t been modified. This can be done by downloading my PGP Public Key, and running the following as root:

rpm –import bdpepple.asc

I talked to the GKrellM maintainer at RedHat, and it sounds like they will include this with a couple of other plugins in the next core release of Fedora.

Update: Removed rpm, since it’s been published in Fedora.us and Fedora Extras.

From Bayarea.com:

Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy always seemed like he was tilting at windmills when he said Sun would challenge Microsoft’s dominance on the desktop computer.

But McNealy announced today that the Chinese government has pledged to deploy a million computers in the next year using Sun’s Linux desktop software. The cost: $50 per license for Sun’s desktop software, which includes its Star Office 7.0 productivity program that is a clone of Microsoft’s Office suite. Microsoft Office can cost more than $400 a copy.
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Found a fairly decent step-by-step on how to set-up digital video-cameras on linux here. Next time I’m up at Emily and Allen’s house, I’ll have to see if I can finally get their camera working.

Well, I’ve spent most of this afternoon putting the stable release of Fedora on my desktop. Overall, their installer is probably the best in the Linux world, and the only problem I had was that it had a hell of a time detecting my video card (An old Voodoo3).

For the most part, it’s fairly similar to Redhat 9, the most noticible change is in the package management. They are supporting Apt and Yum repositories to handle package dependencies. Luckily, I found the Fedora wiki that gave a good overview on how these are to be set-up. Now, I’ve just got to get some of the multi-media stuff set-up, and I’ll be good to go.

From Novell:

PROVO, Utah – Nov. 04, 2003 – Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell’s ability to provide enterprise-class services and support on the Linux platform. With the open source expertise of SUSE LINUX and Novell’s world-class networking and identity solutions and support, training and consulting services, Novell will be able to deliver Linux and all its components from the server to the desktop and give organizations a secure, reliable and mature Linux foundation. Novell will pay $210 million in cash to complete the acquisition. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the winding up of shareholder agreements. Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004).

Hmmm, this could be good news since Novell also recently purchased Ximian. Maybe they will make SuSE more Gnome-centric. Of course, with my luck they will decide to make Ximian port their products over to KDE.