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Mobile Wireless Questions and Answers

21 June 2009

Some interesting questions and answers from my local Linux Group, the responses were written by Linux wireless expert Quentin Wright.

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Printing in black and white on Linux

02 April 2009

In this post, I talk about using the HP Deskjet D2560 on Linux, as well as how to print in black and white.

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Email with Mutt, IMAP and SSMTP

26 February 2009

In this post, I talk about how I set up the Mutt email reader, retrieving email with IMAP, and sending email using SSMTP.

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Desktop applications on Linux

24 February 2009

Which desktop application would you not like to see implemented again on Linux?

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Server upgrade and code rethink

22 December 2008

I talk about the server upgrade and the code that this site runs on.

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Building the TEI documentation

12 October 2008

In this post, I check out the TEI build scripts, and compile the XML formatted documentation into HTML.

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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME

01 September 2008

In this post I try to figure out how to type unicode characters in GNOME, in my case so I can type Finnish.

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Native XML storage with Berkeley DB XML - part one

14 August 2008

In this post I introduce native XML databases and provide installation instructions for DB XML on Windows, Gentoo and Ubuntu.

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Is GUADEC just GDEC?

07 August 2008

GUADEC is a developers conference, that is fine but don't pretend that users can come.

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Top Ten mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software

25 July 2008

My current choices for the top ten coolest posts in free software/open source mailing list. If you can think of a better one, please do paste a link in the comments.

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Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

01 June 2008

Look up the licenses of your Firefox extenstions, you might find that some of them, such as the StumbleUpon Toolbar, are not free software/open source at all, they are proprietary software,

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Will Epiphany be able to compete with Firefox's extensions?

31 May 2008

Can the forthcoming Epiphany browser based on Webkit compete on GNOME when Firefox has so many extensions?

In this post I look through Firefox's extensions to try work out how many extensions Epiphany would really need to satisfy most GNOME users.

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Firefox is your nanny?

22 May 2008

Firefox 3 now requires extension authors to submit their extensions to Mozilla for approval or to setup SSL. Firefox 3 refuses to install an unauthorised extension.

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Epiphany and Webkit 2008

18 May 2008

In this post I compile and try out the Epiphany browser with the WebKit backend to see how the boys are getting on.

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Swap out your ssh keys

14 May 2008

This post explains how to replace your existing SSH keys with new ones. This is relevant in light of a recent Debian/Ubuntu bug in the random number generator.

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Give Linux a chance

12 May 2008

In this introductory article, I try to write accessibly about why you should try another operating system than Windows, you might even like it!

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Twitter and GNOME integration

10 April 2008

This is part two of our look at using Python with the API of the Twitter social networking website. In this post, we make twitter updates pop-up on a Linux desktop.

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Backing up my laptop

15 February 2008

To my surprise, my laptop has become my primary computer. With my old Fujitsu and my Macbook, I still made a remote connection to my desktop and worked there. However, with my Thinkpad, I have finally found a laptop that I am happy with, I think it is down to the quality of the keyboard. Working locally means I need to back the system up.

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Office Software for Linux

20 January 2008

Are you thinking about moving your computer to Linux, but worried about living without office software? Well don't be. Linux has lots of its own office software.

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OpenMoko vs iPhone - Free your phone or Fight your phone?

13 January 2008

Hello Everyone, I am rather busy at the moment so I am going to pull out some posts from my drafts folder that I never got around to publishing, so the subjects might be in a rather random order or discuss old issues but you are used to that I'm sure! Let's start with a comparison between the iPhone and the OpenMoko Neo1973-GTA02 FreeRunner.

For more on this topic, you can see my `Smart Phones and Devices`_ series.

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Hello, my name is Zeth, I'll be your host here.

Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

This site is your site too which means that you can contribute and get involved. You can leave comments using the facility provided. For me, the comments and discussions are by far the best part of the site. So please do have your say!

Latest Discussions

Zeth

November 29, 2009
Hi Jordan, yes that URL is gone now. I have a new contact form on this site.
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Jordan

November 29, 2009
Zeth attention! Your form, http://zeth.me.uk/contact/, is not working The explorer says connecting ..but nothing happens Sorry for my poor English: I am Spanish Regards
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Jordan

November 26, 2009
Sorry: tell me , not tellme (I'm spaniard) And http://zeth.me.uk/contact/ don't work
→ You got the touch, you got the power

David Jones

November 25, 2009
Your mad skillz are too l33t! for me. I specifically switched to Google Reader so that I could show people what blogs I read. But I couldn't work out how ...
→ How to find the fashionable blogs quickly

Brian R. Hickey

November 20, 2009
Symantec picked it up too.
→ How to bring down Internet Explorer with six words

Zeth

November 17, 2009
Thanks djm, I am the moose here. Christian, assuming one actually does Internationalise the countries, it should still work I guess, as the gettext stuff will happen before the list ...
→ Countries in Django

Phillip Temple

November 17, 2009
Good start, but: a) wouldn't I want None back rather than 'ZZ'? b) why not add a 'shortcut' boolean, then prepend flagged fields (plus usual '-----' separator) to the actual ...
→ Countries in Django

djm

November 17, 2009
Am I being a moose or did you mean: from whatever.countries import CountryField instead of from whatever.countries import CharField ? Good post though, cheers.
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Christian Joergensen

November 17, 2009
Wouldn't the ordering get messed up after i18n?
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Steve - Electronic Cigarettes Fan

November 17, 2009
Very well done. Is your blog just you writing? Nicely done, Steven.
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vetetix

November 15, 2009
Sorry to bother you nearly two years after you wrote this blog article, but I can't manage to find how to modify an existing field. I am trying to change ...
→ Three Useful Python Bindings - ClamAV, Apt and Evolution

Manju

November 4, 2009
I am transferring some files using psftp to other device's FAT partition. But the filestamp of the file being transferred is modified to that of FAT device, after the transfer. ...
→ PuTTY Series: Using PSFTP

iki

November 2, 2009
or simpler: socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]
→ How to find out your IP address in Python

iki

November 2, 2009
local_ip = set([ i[4][0] for i in socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None) if i[0] == 2 ])
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Fred

November 2, 2009
testing rst ------------- - point 1
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Ano

October 27, 2009
"You simply found the license of the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Internet Explorer." That's possible. I've got some more interesting information to add. Firstly, go to this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138 - this ...
→ Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

Ken

October 21, 2009
Stumbled in here at lunch. This is the best find of the week. Thanks.
→ Three classic command line tips

Jim

October 19, 2009
Thanks for the rtsp:// post - that's something that has been bugging me for a while!
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Zeth

October 18, 2009
Thanks for the comments guys. Great to see the all the gang are still here!
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Bubba

October 18, 2009
Is there any way psftp can return the true transfer rates oberved during the actual transfer?
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