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Tag your it!

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 23, 2007 at 11:44 am

Well Aaron decided he would Tag Me first in his game to build either a long blogroll or xml feed list, or maybe he wants to be #1 on Technorati I used Akregator from w/in Kontact so most of my feeds are the default ones which of course are mainly planets as well. However, I do track other people’s posts who are pretty darn good. With that being said, I have 2 blogs I enjoy from the Ubuntu Chicago Planet, one is a future Ubuntu member without a doubt and the other, well he could very easily become a member as well as he is a fresh face in the community right now. I am talking about Jim Campbell and Chad Sutton.

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Free Libre Open Source Career Conference

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 23, 2007 at 12:09 am

“Flourish - to grow luxuriantly, to thrive, to achieve success, to reach a height of development or influence.”

Flourish! will be held April 6^th and 7^th at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Some of the speakers include:

Peter T. Brown - Free Software Foundation
Chris DiBona - Google
Angela Byron - Drupal
Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway - Red Hat
John Doppke - IBM
Willy Farrell - IBM
Paul McMahan - IBM
John Quigley - Cleversafe
Jason Rexilius

The venue includes a lot of great speakers as noted above as well as some intermingling time, a hack-a-thon, and a Battle of the Distros (so far Ubuntu vs. Linspire vs. Fedora/Red Hat). So if you are in the Chicagoland area these 2 days, stop on by and say hello. I will be hanging out with the Ubuntu Chicago and the Chicago GLUG crowds, as well as participating in the Battle of the Distros (I am throwing Kubuntu into that mix by the way).

Notify Works in Kubuntu

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm

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In response to Aaron’s blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) about IRSSI and libnotify to send you a notification upon highlight, well it works great in Kubuntu as well.

As you will notice, I use a different icon, a customized Konversation icon, and I have also changed the color of the popup by setting the urgency as well. The following is the shell script I am using, which is pretty much the same as Aaron’s just modified to suit my taste.

#!/bin/sh ssh user@server ": > .irssi/fnotify ; tail -f .irssi/fnotify " | sed -u 's/[<@&]//g' | while read heading message; do /usr/bin/notify-send -u critical -i <location to icon> -t 300000 -- "${heading}" "${message}"; done

Replaceuser@server with your username and server IP address. Also replace<location to icon> to the correct icon location that you want to use. An example would be/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48×48/apps/whatever.png.