Saturday, March 30, 2002
Running Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel on my Linux laptop
Codeweaver's Crossover Office product is amazing! It is based on WINE and steps through "installing" the Microsoft office suite from the distribution CD onto a Linux system. It takes care of faking out of file system so it has a C: drive named 'fake_windows'. The performance a a little but slower than running natively under Windows 2000 professional on the same hardware, but acceptable. The fonts are a little off, but I haven't yet installed all the fonts from Microsoft's website. Go buy it. It is definitely worth the $54.95.
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
Sunday, March 17, 2002
Integrating blosxom with Evolution
Ximian's Evolution, an Outlook look-alike for Linux, is now my primary email client and can display RSS headlines on its 'Summary' page. To have blosxom (version 0+3i) to display, create a newsfeed with a URL like this: http://www.nozell.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/xml. Don't get it wrong since Evolution 1.0.2+ doesn't seem to have a way of changing a newsfeed once created. (Hint: edit ~/evolution/RDF-urls.txt)
Thursday, March 14, 2002
kio_fish: Use ssh to access files via konqueror
I stumbled across this while messing with debian's apt-cache search. kio_fish is a KDE extension that provides a way to browse a remote directory usingssh. There is no need to setup an FTP or web server on the remote system as long as you have an account there. Just point konqueror to fish://user@home.system.com.
BTW, depending on your KDE installation, you may need to also install liblcms
BTW, depending on your KDE installation, you may need to also install liblcms
Take a look.
Sunday, March 10, 2002
Destination Imagination
This weekend was our state's regional Destination Imagination. After months of meeting, is it great to see the two teams work together as a group during the competition and perform a great presentation!
Thursday, March 7, 2002
blosxom-0+2i patch
blosxom 0+2i incorrectly sorts entries. Sent Rael a patch to use mtime instead of ctime.
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Eye Candy/Icons
I stumbled on a bunch of cool icon/background sites. http://www.iconfactory.com/
Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Customizing blosxom with style(sheets)
The Blosxom doc mentions customizing the look and feel using style sheets and mentions blosxomEntry, blosxomDate, blosxomTime, blosxomTitle and blosxomBody. This is what my initial stab at an head.html looks like:
<head>
<STYLE TYPE-"type/css">
<!--
BODY {background: #FFFFFF}
.blosxomEntry {background: #ffffff; color: #000000}
.blosxomDate {font-family: Sans-serif,Verdana,Geneva,Arial; font-size: 15pt; color: #000000}
.blosxomTime {font-family: sans-serif, Times, braggadocio, fixed}
.blosxomTitle {font-family: Sans-serif, arial}
.blosxomBody {text-decoration: italicize; color: #666666} -->
</STYLE>
</head>
Write on the laptop, publish on website
I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I've wrote a one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use ssh-agent, you won't even need to type your ssh password more than once a day.
#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com:~/HTML/marc/blog/
#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com:~/HTML/marc/blog/
Monday, March 4, 2002
Write on the laptop, publish on website
I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I've wrote a
one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use
ssh-agent, you won't even need to type your ssh password more than
once a day.
one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use
ssh-agent, you won't even need to type your ssh password more than
once a day.
#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com
:~/HTML/marc/blog/
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