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Norwegian holiday file for pal

2014-12-22T00:58:00.004+01:00

I started using pal as a calendar. It stores the appointments as clean text. I love it. You can ofc sync the files with dropbox to android, and there you can use simple linux tools to display it too. Anyway ...

norway.pal:

NO Norway
00001224 Julaften
00001225 Første Juldag
00001226 Andre Juledag
00001231 Nyttårsaften
00000101 Nyttårsdag
00000501 Arbeidernes dag
00000508 Frigjøringsdagen 1945
00000517 grunnlovsdagen
00000729 olsok
*03L1 sommertid begynner
*10L1 sommertid slutter
Easter 1. påskedag
Easter+001 2. påskedag
Easter-002 langfredag
Easter-003 skjærtorsdag
Easter-007 palmesøndag
Easter-049 fastelavn
Easter+039 kristi himmelfartsdag
Easter+049 1. pinsedag
Easter+050 2. pinsedag

How to start gui application from cron

2012-09-09T12:33:00.002+02:00

I've got a slow internet connection right now, so I needed a way to start deluge when I'm asleep. Cron won't let you start GUI applications without tweaking it. So i searched the web, and made this script, it's based on this post

cgs(Cron Gui Start):

(You need to exchange "openbox" with whatever your windowmanagers cmd name is, check 'ps -A', could be e.g.: gnome-session)

for pid in $(pgrep openbox); do
unset COOKIE
COOKIE="$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$pid/environ|cut -d= -f2-)"
GNUSER="$(ps --no-heading -o uname $pid)"
sudo -u "$GNUSER" DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="$COOKIE" "$@"
done

unset COOKIE

Examples from cronetab

00 08 * * * cgs /usr/bin/notify-send "Time to do some wrk"
00 02 * * * cgs deluge

How to view compressed images in linux

2012-09-07T14:00:00.001+02:00

Since we're not quite in the paper-less society yet, I often have to scan documents for archiving. Before, I used "convert" to make multiple images into a pdf-file. This works ok, but i think I found a simpler and easier method. Compress images (most fm's lets you do this with ease), and then use this script to view them. E.i. I made this script to view compressed images in linux. It simply extracts the archive to /tmp/tarpics and starts viewing them. Works great, similar to a PDF or multiple images in a folder. I call the files filename.jpg.tar.gz, so i can make these files open with this script as default.
tarpics

file=${@/file:\/\/}
rm -r /tmp/tarpics; mkdir /tmp/tarpics;tar -C /tmp/tarpics/ -xf $file;feh -F -Z -q /tmp/tarpics/

(Usage: tarpics file.jpg.tar.gz) I've recently switched to the image viewer "feh", which needs a wrapper to open images from a fm ... i integrated the above code into the wrapper, so the wrapper handles all images-files including jpg.tar.gz files.
feh-open

file=${@/file:\/\/}
if [[ "$file" == http* ]] ; then { feh $file; exit 1; } fi
if [[ "$file" == *.jpg.tar.gz ]]
then rm -r /tmp/tarpics; mkdir /tmp/tarpics;tar -C /tmp/tarpics/ -xf $file;feh -F -Z -q /tmp/tarpics/
else {
if [[ $file == ${file%*/*} ]]
then feh -F -Z -q --start-at "$file" *
else feh -F -Z -q --start-at "$file" "${file%*/*}"
fi
}
fi

(Usage: feh-open file.jpg.tar.gz) or (feh-open file.jpg) Of course I use bash-open to open the files with.

Kindle collection script (bash)

2012-07-06T00:35:00.001+02:00

There are some tools for linux to make collection in Kindle(e.g.: plugin for calibre ), and even a webtool, but i like to do things localy and from bash. So I made a script to put books in colelctions, based on what folder theire in, so the books in /mnt/kindle/documents/fiction are put in the 'fiction' collection etc. Make sure there are no subfolders.

When you make new collections (add new folders), you need to reboot the kindle: Menu → Settings → Menu (again) → reboot

(Remember to edit $kid)

#!/bin/bash
kid=/mnt/kindle
hp=/mnt/us/documents #don't edit
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

if mount|grep $kid >> /dev/null; then {

(echo "{"
for col in $(find $kid/documents -type d|awk -F "/" '{print $5}'|sed '1d'|sort -u);
do
echo "',\"$col@en-us\":{\"items\":['"
for i in $(cd $kid/documents/$col;ls *.*|grep -v pdr)
do
echo "'\"*$(echo -n "$hp/$col/$i"|shasum|cut -c -40)\"',"
done
echo "],'\"lastAccess\"':0}"
done
echo "}")|xargs|sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/{,/{/g' -e 's/,]/]/g' > $kid/system/collections.json
}
else echo "kindle not mounted"
fi

Some extra tips about the kindle

Kindle HowTo: Change Margin I changed them from 40 to 5, which works great
Make your own kindle book, throught html coding
- and generate it with Kindlegen
To view images, you have to zip them: in linux: zip -9 myfile *.jpg , the kindle will scale the images, but for larges/best possible images, think about rotating and format.
Also check out my earlier post, on how to make install a new kindle screensaver

Multilink 2

2012-07-06T00:15:00.001+02:00

Multilink 1

2012-06-22T00:16:00.001+02:00

Art/design/architecture
Interviews/videos
Music (trance, folk, hiphop, mystic, some very old)
Politics
- Kopimism, Sweden's Pirate Religion, Begins to Plunder America
Funny/cute
- Lolcat

Edward Conard

2012-06-20T21:09:00.001+02:00

Interesting interview with Edward Conard, where he argues for capitalism and reward for risk. He's the author of the book Unintended Consequences.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Edward Conard Extended Interview Pt. 1

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog

The Daily Show on Facebook

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Edward Conard Extended Interview Pt. 2

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog

The Daily Show on Facebook

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Edward Conard Extended Interview Pt. 3

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog

The Daily Show on Facebook

mplayer_resume

2012-06-12T09:58:00.000+02:00

I made this script for mplayer

Features
- Resumes playing videos/audiobooks with mplayer, where you left off
- If it is a playlist (file.pl), it will also remember which file you were watching
- To clear all history/bookmarks just delete ~/.mplayer_resume
Names of files played with mplayer_resume must be unique, so you can't keep track of two playlists called playlist.pl (even if they are in different folders).

And without further adieu ...

#!/bin/bash
folder=/home/$USER/.mplayer_resume
pls=pl # playlist postfix
ol=20 # repeats n seconds from where you left off
file=${@##*file://} #don't edit
bn=$(basename "$file")
[ -a $folder ]||mkdir $folder
if [[ $file = /x/trin* ]]; then {
mplayer "$file"
exit 1
} ; fi
if [ -a "$folder/$bn" ]
then {
ss=$(cat "$folder/$bn"|sed -e 's/A:/\nA:/g'|sed -n '/^A:/s/^A:[[:space:]]*\([[:digit:]\.]*\).*$/\1/p'|tail -n 1)
ss=$(echo $ss-$ol|bc)
if [[ "$bn" = *.$pls ]];then {
cf=$(grep Playing "$folder/$bn"|tail -n 1|sed -e 's/\.$//g' -e 's/^Playing //g')
line=$(($(grep -n $(basename "$cf") "$file" |awk -F ":" '{print $1}')-1))
if [[ $line = 0 ]] ;then line=-1;fi
echo -e "volume 0\npt_step $line \nseek $ss 2" > $folder/prerun
mplayer -input file=$folder/prerun -playlist "$file"|tee "$folder/$bn"|grep Playing
}
else mplayer "$file" -ss $ss &> "$folder/$bn" ;fi
}
else
if [[ $bn = *.$pls ]];then mplayer -playlist "$file" &> "$folder/$bn"
else mplayer "$file" &> "$folder/$bn"; fi
fi

Just set bash-open or xdg-open to open video-files and .pl.files with mplayer_resume, easy.

Openbox

2012-06-03T18:25:00.000+02:00

openbox

I'm still running debian. I just went from using xfce to openbox, as a window manager, since I didn't use any of the menus/panel anyways. After install openbox only have a right-click menu, so if you want a panel/dock or whatever you have to install this yourself. It's also highly configurable, you can lose the window-decoration etc. There is a graphical configuration tool (obconf), but you can also edit ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml, which gives you a lot more options. All i needed to do was to add some keyboard-shortcuts, and run applications with bash-run, i like the simplicity. No panel, no clock, no blinking icons, just focus on what you are doing. And it feels real fast, even on my Asus Eee Box (the pic →).

After install run :

 openbox --replace

... to change windows manager, and, if you don't have a graphical login that lets you choose window manager, put :

exec openbox-session

at the end of ~/.xsession, create .xsession if it does not exist. You can also put other commands, you want to run at startup, in ~/.xsession, but they need to precede 'exec openbox', and they need to be run in the backgroun (add a & at the end of the command) e.g.:

feh --bg-fill /x/bilder/wallpapers/debian.png&

... to set the wallpaper.

Here is my .xsession

/BACKUP/bic/uib&
feh --bg-fill /x/bilder/wallpapers/debian.png&
exec openbox

To "log out", or exit to the login shell:

openbox --exit

I use "tint2", if i need a panel, e.g. for dropbox. From the terminal, tint2 starts in the forground so it is easy to start and stop.

The ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file has examples in it, for configuring openbox, but heres how to set shortcuts: (W=windows-key C=ctrl A=alt)

<keybind key="W-q"> <action name="Execute"> <command>/BACKUP/bic/playall -q</command> </action> </keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume"> <action name="Execute"> <command>/BACKUP/bic/volume -d</command> </action> </keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume"> <action name="Execute"> <command>/BACKUP/bic/volume -u</command> </action> </keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioMute"> <action name="Execute"> <command>/BACKUP/bic/volume -m</command> </action> </keybind>

BTW: nice wallpaper:

Make your own Kindle screensaver in linux

2012-05-16T01:50:00.004+02:00

I got advice from a friend to check out amazons Kindle, which I now Love! I thought it was a closed system, for only amazon bought books. Turns out you can mount it as a hdd and upload multiple formats, althought you probably want to use the mobi format. Anyways, it comes with a boring screensaver. There are some guides on the net on how to make your own, but not for linux afaik. So I made one. It's easy easy peasy.

I use debian (testing) and kindle 4, without adds/touch/fire or anything like that: this one

If you can't mount your kindle:

sudo apt-get install mtpfs
reboot

Make your own kindle screensaver, with linux

#( connect the kindle device with USB)
mount /mnt/kindle # (mount your kindle device)
cp /mnt/kindle/DONT_HALT_ON_REPAIR /mnt/kindle/ENABLE_DIAGS # (which will enable "diagnostick mode")
umount /mnt/kindle #( and remove USB cable)

On kindle, press Home → Menu → select "Settings" → Menu again → Restart
You will now be in diagnostic mode
- Select "N) Misc individual diagnostics"
- Select "U) Utilities"
- Select "Z) Enable USBnet"
- Now you should see the ip of the device etc.

Insert USB cable, but don't try to mount

ifconfig -a # (look for the usb device, not necessary, but will confirm the usb-device)
sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.10 # (set local ip)
ssh root@192.168.15.244 # (passwd mario, and run these commands, in ssh:)
mntroot rw
mkdir /mnt/us/screensaver
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/base-mmc
mv /mnt/base-mmc/opt/amazon/screen_saver/600x800 /mnt/base-mmc/opt/amazon/screen_saver/600x800.old
ln -sfn /mnt/us/screensaver /mnt/base-mmc/opt/amazon/screen_saver/600x800

Disconnect the USB cable
Press Right on the kindle twice, to get back to the "diagnostick mode" menu, where you started.
Select "D) Exit, reboot or Disable Diags" → press Left, to confirm that "you are sure"
When rebooted, connect and mount the kindle again, it should now have the folder: /mnt/kindle/screen_saver, put your pics in there
and restart again (Home → Menu → Settings → Menu → restart). (:Make the pictures 600x800 in size, and make it grayscaled (in gimp: Image → Mode → Grayscale))
Now you should have the pics in /mnt/kindle/screen_saver as screensaver, press "power off" to check.
Heres some nice screensaver pics: gallery

Worklog summary

2012-05-08T19:28:00.000+02:00

worklog script

I wrote about worklog in an earlier post. Under, is an idea of how to summarize the results with a filter-script. It shows the time used on projects each day, the sum of all recorded time for the day, and "descriptions". Take a look at the screen shot.

(Remember to edit the $wd variable, and $days variable)

#!/bin/bash
wd=/BACKUP/sys/worklog
days=3 #number of days to show
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
#for i in $(grep "summary begins" $wd/time.log|awk '{print $6" "$7" "$8}'|uniq|tail -n $days)
for i in $(grep "summary begins" $wd/time.log|cut -c 29-38|uniq|tail -n $days)
do
echo -e "\e[00;31m$i\e[00m"
sum=0
for o in $wd/time.log.*
do
if grep -q $i $o;then {
project=$(grep "$(echo $o|sed -e 's/.*\.//g'):" $wd/projects)
hours=$(grep $i $o|awk 'f += $1 {printf("%.1f\n",f)}'|tail -n 1)
desc=$(grep $i $o|awk -F ":" '{print "/" $2 }'|xargs|sed -e 's/\/ //g' -e 's/[:blank:]+/ /g')
echo $hours : $project : $desc
} fi
done|sort -gr| awk '{f+=$1}{print}END{printf "%.1f : Sum\n",f }'
done

A Samurai’s Creed

2012-05-03T03:05:00.000+02:00

A Samurai’s Creed - Anonymous, Circa 1300

Samurais are way cool, I even have a saumrai sword for gods sake, heres a nice poem about, and maybe by, a samurai.

I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my mother and father. I have no home; I make awareness my dwelling. I have no life and death; I make the tides of breathing my life and death. I have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power. I have no means; I make understanding my means. I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret. I have no body; I make endurance my body. I have no eyes; I make the flash of lightning my eyes. I have no ears; I make sensibility my ears. I have no limbs; I make promptness my limbs. I have no strategy; I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy I have no designs; I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design. I have no miracles; I make right action my miracle. I have no principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles. I have no tactics; I make emptiness and fullness my tactics. I have no talents; I make ready wit my talent. I have no friends; I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor; I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle; I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword; I make absence of self my sword.

The worlds religions

2012-04-27T19:36:00.002+02:00

Interesting, I haven't given much thought to the differences in religion within the western world, or the differences in africa, asia etc., quite interesting indeed!

Source: http://www.wadsworth.com/religion_d/special_features/popups/maps/matthews_world/content/map_01.html

bash-run

2012-04-27T07:36:00.004+02:00

I've been looking for a launcher lately, gmrun is pretty good, but it doesn't handle aliases, so I made this script, and mapped it to Alt-r.

It handles

aliases
has history
has completion for folders/filenames, but not for executables in $PATH
I only managed to make it have completion for my script-folder, by cd'ing into it first :/

But i still find it better then the other launchers. I don't even use menus anymore.

#!/bin/bash
myscripts=/BACKUP/bin
cd $my_scripts;xterm -fg green -geometry 50x1+500+500 -e 'history -r /home/$USER/.bash-run; \
read -ep "> " command;bash -ic "$command &";history -n -s $command;history -a /home/$USER/.bash-run'

Some ideas on how to use bash-run:

make scripts for searching the web, even if I have the browser in focus it can be awkward to do multiple searches etc., scripts give to more freedom to make function that suits me, and also easier to keep track of and work on all browsers (if you change opera to firefox etc., also you could use bash-open so its easier to change browser).

Herers some examples:

'g' string (for googling)

#!/bin/bash
string=$(echo $@|sed -e 's/ /+/g')
opera
"https://encrypted.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=$string&btnG=Search&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl="
&> /dev/null

'gi' string (for gooling images)

#!/bin/bash
string=$(echo $@|sed -e 's/ /\%20/g')
opera "https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$string&biw=1280&bih=938&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=li" &> /dev/null

'gm' string (for searching google maps)

#!/bin/bash
string=$(echo $@|sed -e 's/ /\%20/g')
opera "http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=$string&biw=1280&bih=938&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il" &> /dev/null

Worklog

2012-04-26T01:35:00.001+02:00

Sometimes I want to get an overview of what I spend my time doing. I love bash and simplicity, so when I found worklog I immediately loved it. Worklog is a ncurses app that lets you keep track of time spent on "projects" and you can also insert comments to show when you finished a task etc.(hit CR aka enter). You have no need for a mouse in worklog, heres how it works: worklog reads the 'projects' file in the current directory to make a project list, with assigned keys (which can only be one char long, lower case or upper case). Heres an example you can use of a 'projects' file, and a screen shot of the actual app (in tmux, /BACKUP/sys/worklog/projects):

# Worklog project file # note that projects appear in Worklog in REVERSE order

w:wrk v:vedlikehold(husarb wtodo etc) u:UT t:todos T:Trin s:sleep r:wr p:pause m:matpause g:gåtur c:chat facebook etc b:blogger a:adm

It's very simple, press the key to start timing the project, eg: 'p' for pause, you can then hit another key to switch project. When you quit (Del,Del) the recorded work is summarized in the file time.log (if you like you can make bash scripts to extract and summarize the tracking in other ways).

Since worklog needs the projects file in the current directory, and also will makes a mess wherever it is started, I advice you to make a working dir (/BACKUP/sys/worklog) and stick your projects file there and make the alias:

alias worklog="(cd /BACKUP/sys/worklog;worklog)"

(BTW: you may also like to check out the app "arbtt", which is ment to track how you spend your time at the computer automatically by eg recording which window has the focus for how long.)

Yoga By Equinox

2012-04-19T22:53:00.001+02:00

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

2012-04-18T19:02:00.002+02:00

A talk about effective text editing by Bram Moolenaar, the author of Vim. Nice to see the guy, who made the editor I use all the time.

Elon Musk - Daily show

2012-04-18T18:22:00.002+02:00

With the money he made from PayPal, Musk wants to make inter-planetary space travel possible, and ensure that the "light of consciousness" isn't extinguished. What an inspiring guy!

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Elon Musk Extended Interview Pt. 1

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog

The Daily Show on Facebook

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Elon Musk Extended Interview Pt. 2

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor & Satire Blog

The Daily Show on Facebook

Systemantics

2012-04-17T19:38:00.002+02:00

I was checking out some "laws" on wikipedia, and came across the Semantics page, some very interesting laws, i copy them here and highlight the ones i like best. Apparently it's from a book with the same name by John Gall, I'll check it out!:

The Primal Scenario or Basic Datum of Experience: Systems in general work poorly or not at all. (Complicated systems seldom exceed five percent efficiency.)
The Fundamental Theorem: New systems generate new problems.
The Law of Conservation of Anergy [sic]: The total amount of anergy in the universe is constant. ("Anergy" = 'human energy')
Laws of Growth: Systems tend to grow, and as they grow, they encroach.
The Generalized Uncertainty Principle: Systems display antics. (Complicated systems produce unexpected outcomes. The total behavior of large systems cannot be predicted.)
Le Chatelier's Principle: Complex systems tend to oppose their own proper function. As systems grow in complexity, they tend to oppose their stated function.
Functionary's Falsity: People in systems do not actually do what the system says they are doing.
The Operational Fallacy: The system itself does not actually do what it says it is doing.
The Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): Things are what they are reported to be. The real world is what it is reported to be. (That is, the system takes as given that things are as reported, regardless of the true state of affairs.)
Systems attract systems-people. (For every human system, there is a type of person adapted to thrive on it or in it.)
The bigger the system, the narrower and more specialized the interface with individuals.
A complex system cannot be "made" to work. It either works or it doesn't.
A simple system, designed from scratch, sometimes works.
Some complex systems actually work.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
The Functional Indeterminacy Theorem (F.I.T.): In complex systems, malfunction and even total non-function may not be detectable for long periods, if ever.
The Newtonian Law of Systems Inertia: A system that performs a certain way will continue to operate in that way regardless of the need or of changed conditions.
Systems develop goals of their own the instant they come into being.
Intrasystem [sic] goals come first.
The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): Complex systems usually operate in failure mode.
A complex system can fail in an infinite number of ways. (If anything can go wrong, it will.) (See Murphy's law.)
The mode of failure of a complex system cannot ordinarily be predicted from its structure.
The crucial variables are discovered by accident.
The larger the system, the greater the probability of unexpected failure. "Success" or "Function" in any system may be failure in the larger or smaller systems to which the system is connected.
The Fail-Safe Theorem: When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe.
Complex systems tend to produce complex responses (not solutions) to problems.
Great advances are not produced by systems designed to produce great advances.
The Vector Theory of Systems: Systems run better when designed to run downhill.
Loose systems last longer and work better. (Efficient systems are dangerous to themselves and to others.)
As systems grow in size, they tend to lose basic functions.
The larger the system, the less the variety in the product.
Control of a system is exercised by the element with the greatest variety of behavioral responses.
Colossal systems foster colossal errors.
Choose your systems with care.
Everything is a system.
Everything is part of a larger system.
The universe is infinitely systematized, both upward (larger systems) and downward (smaller systems).
All systems are infinitely complex.

What makes you happy?

2012-04-05T16:25:00.001+02:00

What makes you happy? from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

OCR

2012-03-28T09:19:00.003+02:00

OCR (make text-images into text) has for years worked great under windows, finally it also work ok on linux. The solution comes from tesseract-ocr. It handles multiple languages, and is near perfect for some fonts/texts, but they have to be in 90 degree angle. So when scanning, be careful to get it straight. I made this script to ocr multiple pages.

Usage:

ocr #run the script in a folder with ONLY the images you want to ocr.


#!/bin/bash
lang=eng
file_count_init () {
counter=0;
tot=`ls|nl|tail -n 1|awk -F " " '{print $1}'`;
digits_tot=`expr match "$tot" '[0-9]*'`;
}
file_inc_counter () {
let counter=$counter+1;
let nu_zero=`expr match "$tot" '[0-9]*'`-`expr match "$counter" '[0-9]*'`;
}
file_counter_show () {
printf `if (($nu_zero != 0)); then printf "%0\`echo $nu_zero\`d";fi`$counter;
}

file_count_init
for i in *; do
file_inc_counter
echo "OCR on page `file_counter_show` of $tot";
tesseract $i bokside_`file_counter_show` -l $lang
done

Two scripts: trash & fastmove

2012-03-21T03:20:00.002+01:00

fastmove as cusom action to archive files
eg "→ /x/m" moves the files to /x/m

I use qtfm, which doesn't have a inbuilt trash-can. So i had to make one myself, something like 'mv $@ $trash', but this works slow if the $trash folder is on another partition. So the script needs to be a bit more complex. This can be used as custom action or from the console. (trash from console)

FM's that supports custom actions (like qtfm) can be made into quick systems for archiving files. I made a custom action for each folder i move a lot of files to, so when i go through my inbox/download/new_stuff folder, i can quickly archive the files to the right destination folder, but like with trash this is slow if the destination folder is on another partition, so thats why i made fastmove, which moves the files to the root of the current partition, before moving it on to the destination, so the moving seems faster, and you can forget about the file(s), and continue archiving. The image shows what the archive system looks like from my qtfm, right-click menu. (fastmove between partitions)

trash

Usage:

trash -l #for listing files in trash
trash -d #for emptying trash
trash file(s) # for moving file(s) to trash

trash:

(remember to edit $part and maybe $hometrash)


#!/bin/bash
#set some vars
part="/x /z" # list where your partitions are mounted, seperated by a blank
#this trash folder will be used for files on the root partition
hometrash="/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/files" 
home=1 #don't touch!

#check if each part has a trash folder, if not, make it.
if [ -d $hometrash ];
then echo trash folder ok >> /dev/null
else mkdir -p $hometrash;fi
for p in $part;do if [ -d $p/.Trash-1000/files ]
then echo trash folder ok >>/dev/null
else mkdir -p $p/.Trash-1000/files;fi;done

while getopts "hld" OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
h)
echo -l for list, -d for delete
exit 1 ;;
l)
du -hd 1 $hometrash $(for p in $part;do echo $p/.Trash-1000/files|xargs;done)
exit 1 ;;
d)
rm -r $hometrash/*
for p in $part;do rm -r $p/.Trash-1000/files/*;done
exit 1 ;;
esac
done

for p in $part; do if [[ $(pwd -P) == $p* ]]
then { mv --verbose -f --backup=numbered --target-directory $p/.Trash-1000/files/ "$@"
home=0; } fi ; done
if [ $home = 1 ]
then mv --verbose -f --backup=numbered --target-directory ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ "$@"
fi

fastmove

Usage:

fastmove destination file(s)/dir(s)
#if you want to use it from the console:
fastmove dest files&

fastmove:

(remember to edit $part)

#!/bin/bash
# Usage: fastmove destination files
part="/x /z" #list partitions, seperated by a blank
dest=$1;shift
home=1 #don't touch

for p in $part;do
if [[ $(pwd -P) == $p/* ]]; then {
mv --target-directory $p "$@";
for i in "$@"; do mv --target-directory $dest "$p/$(echo $i|sed -e 's/^\/.*\///g')";done
home=0
}; fi ; done

if [ $home = 1 ]; then {
mv --target-directory /home/$USER/ "$@";
for i in "$@"; do mv --target-directory $dest "/home/$USER/$(echo $i|sed -e 's/^\/.*\///g')";done
}; fi

Why did the chicken cross the road?

2012-03-19T20:22:00.004+01:00

Plato: For the greater good.

Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: Well,...................

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Mishima: For the beauty of it. The chicken's extension of its sinuous legs sent shivers of a dark despair into the souls not only of the silently watching hens but also the roosters, who felt a sudden sexual desire for their exquisite comrade. The dark courage of the chicken was as beautiful as drops of dew upon jade at midnight, struck by a partial moon, its light filtered through clouds. One of the deeply aroused roosters could stand the intensity of the moment no more and bit off the head of the beautiful, courageous chicken-hero, whose wine blood was deliciously drunken by the road, and he died.

Johnny Cochran: The chicken didn't cross the road. Some chicken-hating, genocidal, lying public official moved the road right under the chicken's feet while he was practicing his golf swing and thinking about his family.

Camus: The chicken's mother had just died. But this did not really upset him, as any number of witnesses can attest. In fact, he crossed just because the sun got in his eyes.

John Sununu (again): I would argue that the chicken never crossed the road at all. That it is a story concocted by the Clinton Administration to distract attention from their failed agriculture policy. Where is the evidence that the chicken crossed the road? Where, Michael?

Michael Kinsley: Oh, John, come on! Everybody knows the chicken crossed the road. What evidence do you need? It's obvious that the chicken crossed the road. Your whole argument is just a smoke and mirror tactic to distract us from the fact that most chickens polled now back the Democratic Party. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, John.

Siskel: I don't know why it crossed the road, but I loved it. Thumbs up!

Ebert: I disagree. The whole thing left the audience wondering; the chicken's crossing the road was never clearly explained and the chicken didn't emote very well. It couldn't even speak English! Thumbs down.

Michael Kinsley: But you both agree it did cross the road, right? See, John. I'm right as usual.

Source:http://www.infiltec.com/j-chick2.htm

Some google tips

2012-03-19T18:40:00.002+01:00

Reblogged from: The chart geek

Countdown, countup and alarms

2012-03-14T21:40:00.001+01:00

I made this script for countdown's, countup's(stopwatch) and alarms. This makes it easy to set alarms, for a specific number of hours/minutes, for a specific time, and keep track of how long it's left to a deadline etc. It takes up a whole terminal, so if you use it a lot it might be smart to use tmux or something similar. (I use 4 tabs in gnome terminal, the first one for vim, the last one for tmux, and the other two for bash.) If you do not know how to use tmux, heres a crash course: C-b " to slit the screen horizontally, C-b % to spilt the screen vertically, and C-b arrows(eg up and left) to select the screen to focus on. Off course tmux is nice for all command-line commands that need continuous output, like 'top' See my screenshot:

Usage:
countdown: countdown 00:10:00
alarm: countdown -a 16:00
stopwatch: countdown -s

I use it a lot with the alarm command: countdown 00:15:00;alarm pizza done

#!/bin/bash countdown() ( IFS=: set -- $* secs=$(( ${1#0} * 3600 + ${2#0} * 60 + ${3#0} )) echo -e "\e[00;31mCountdown\e[00m" while [ $secs -gt 0 ] do sleep 1 & printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((secs/3600)) $(( (secs/60)%60)) $((secs%60)) secs=$(( $secs - 1 )) wait done ) countup() ( IFS=: set -- $* secs=0 echo -e "\e[00;31mCountUp\e[00m" while true do sleep 1 & printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((secs/3600)) $(( (secs/60)%60)) $((secs%60)) secs=$(( $secs + 1 )) wait done total=$(printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((secs/3600)) $(( (secs/60)%60)) $((secs%60))) echo $total ) alarm() ( if [[ "$1" > "$(date +%H:%M)" ]] then let secs=$(date --utc --date "$1" +%s)-$(date --utc --date "$(date +%H:%M)" +%s); else let secs=$(date --utc --date "$1 tomorrow" +%s)-$(date --utc --date "$(date +%H:%M)" +%s); fi IFS=: set -- $* echo -e "\e[00;31mCountTo\e[00m" while [ $secs -gt 0 ] do sleep 1 & printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((secs/3600)) $(( (secs/60)%60)) $((secs%60)) secs=$(( $secs - 1 )) wait done ) while getopts “has” OPTION do case $OPTION in h) echo " countdown: countdown 00:10:00 alarm: countdown -a 16:00 stopwatch: countdown -s " exit 1 ;; a) mode=a ;; s) mode=s ;; esac done if [[ $mode == a ]]; then alarm $2; elif [[ $mode == s ]]; then countup; else countdown $1 fi