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-a contact list

-a chat window

-a log window (I find it quite informative)

There is one function in Pidgin that I like a lot and that is  the “Pounce”  option (being announce with a pop-up when an user log off, log in or some other event you select).  After reading the   CenterIM Documentation, I found a very simple solution to implement this feature to my favorite command line IM client. So here it is:

In the external file (~/.centerim/external), add this lines:

1|  %action         Notification
2|  event           online
3|  proto           all
4|  status          all
5|  options         stdin
6|  %exec
7| #!/bin/sh
8|  if test "$CONTACT_NICK" = "contact name"; then
9|   zenity --info   --text $CONTACT_NICK" is online"
10| fi

That’s all. In the script above, don’t forget to replace “contact_name” with the name of the friend you want to be notified about.

If  you want to be notified when every friend from your contact list comes online,  comment lines 8 and 10 (put a # at the begging of the line).

Of course, you can replace the “on_line” event (see line 2) with any other event. Other possible events are:
“msg”, “sms”, “url”, “offline”, “auth”, “contacts” or “notification”.

You can do a lot more interesting things in this magical file.  For example,  on the CenterIM documentation you can find out  how to create a “away message” :

%action         Answering machine
event           msg
proto           all
status          away na
options         stdout

%exec
#!/bin/sh

fname=`head -n 2 $CONTACT_INFODIR/info | tail -n 1`
lname=`head -n 3 $CONTACT_INFODIR/info | tail -n 1`

cat <<EOF
Hello, $fname $lname!
Unfortunately, I'm not near my box now, but I'll certainly contact you
as soon as I get here.

--
me
EOF

For any other idea that you have, check the excellent documentation for CenterIM. Have fun!

GUI torrent clients:

1)  Deluge

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client written in python, for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses  libtorrent in it’s backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.

[Homepage] [Download]

2) KTorrent

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It can be considered the most powerful BitTorrent client for KDE. It is the alternative of  Deluge for KDE.

[Homepage] [Download]

3) Transmission

Transmission is designed to for easy, powerful use. It  Just Work and it only takes a few clicks to configure advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocklists, and the web interface. Transmission has the lowest memory footprint of any major BitTorrent client.

Transmission is also available as a daemon , which is ideal for server installations without X, nas, etc. It can be controlled by web or terminal client.

[Homepage] [Download]

4) Vuze (formerly Azureus)

From Vuze homepage: “the most powerful bittorrent app on earth” . The true it’s that Vuze (formerly Azureus) can be declared as the most future rich torrent client for Linux. You can search, browse, download, share torrents and playback HD files.  All this with a cost: being a Java based app, it is a system resource hogger.

[Homepage] [Download]

5) QBitTorrent

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent.

UPDATE: My favorite client now. I warmly recommend it.

[Homepage] [Download]

6) BitStormLite

BitStormLite is a BitTorrent Client based on c++/gtk+2.0. It is an alternative to the classical bittorrent client for GNOME.  The difference is that it permits to make selective downloads .  Eric has a very nice article about why should someone use this client.

[Homepage] [Download]

Console (ncurse) torrent clients:

7) rtorrent

rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client libTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.

8 ) ctorrent

9) aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.   aria2 has two distinctive features: (1) aria2 can download a file from several URIs(HTTP(S)/FTP/BitTorrent) and (2) If you give aria2 a list of URIs, aria2 downloads them concurrently. You don’t have to wait for the current download queue to finish one file at a time anymore. aria2 tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth and downloads files quickly.

[Homepage] [Download]

Web-based torrent client:

10) torrentflux

TorrentFlux is a web-based system for managing bit torrent file transfers. It is an open source package (GPL) and developed for Linux, Unix & BSD platforms on the ubiquitous LAMP stack.

[Homepage] [Download]

11) OneSwarm

OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

[Homepage] [Download]

]]> http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/top-10-torrent-clients-for-linux/feed/ 37 nongeekboy deluge ktorrent Transmission Vuze qbittortent bitstormlite rtorrent aria torrentflux oneswarm http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/a-simple-solution-for-image-not-available-problem/ http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/a-simple-solution-for-image-not-available-problem/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:31:14 +0000 nongeekboy http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/?p=318 ]]> Is there a simple solution for problems with missing or broken images? Yes, it is. You don’t need any script, just an alternate image to display when this problem occur and the “onerror” event available with the img element. Here is an example:

< img src="/path/to/image.jpg" height="100px" width="100px" onerror="this.src = '/path/to/alternate-image.png'" / >

This simple solution was posted by Satya on his web scripting blog. Anyway, if you preffer a more elegant solution, you could use a script that dynamically detects the missing images and replace them with an alternate image. A good Java Script solution is presented on the tech evangelisit’s article.


function foo() {

// returns an array of all passed arguments
$args = func_get_args();

foo('hello', 'world', 'again');
/* prints
arg1: hello
arg2: world
arg3: again
*/


For more interesting functions and futures, read the 9 useful php functions and futures you need to know article on net.tutsplus.com.

dijit._MenuBase.prototype.onItemHover = function(item){

       this.focusChild(item);

       if(this.focusedChild.popup && !this.focusedChild.disabled){
            this._openPopup();
       }
};

Source: here

“We hope you like the new favicon, which nicely integrates all of our original criteria: distinctive in shape, noticeable, colorful, timeless, and scalable to other sizes.”

Google's favicons

Well, I’m not an expert in design, but … it’s just me, or this new design is far away from Google’s “original criteria” as it is perceived by us, the users. Is’nt Google about simplicity, and eficienty? Think about their website. Can you describe it as being “colorful”? Is this somehow complex and color-packed favicon a fit symbol for Google? What do you think?

Source: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-01-25/