Internet tablet weblog

Ik heb een nieuwe webog gestart. Het is een weblog over internet tablets. Een Internet tablet is een klein apparaatje waarme je makkelijk kunt surfen op het internet op plaatsen waar je normaal geen computer mee kunt nemen (zoals in de bus of in de winkelstraat).

My new website: www.peterstuifzand.nl

Hello all, my new website is at www.peterstuifzand.nl. All my new entries and articles will be posted there.

My latest podcast listening tool

Downloading podcasts is a problem for some people, therefore I wrote a simple tool to download them.

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/podcasts/new
wget $1

Monopod crashes on startup

I liked to try Monopod, a mono podcasting client, written by Edd Dumbill, but it crashed on my computer when I started it.

My system is a amd64 with a Debian distribution, and it looks like there's a problem with trayicon support somewhere.

The error is something like: X window system error (can't find the real error right now). I created a patch around the problem. With this patch you can use monopod, but it won't show the trayicon. So maybe there is stuff missing, that I still can't see. But at least you can now try the program.

The patch, no warranty, it works with monopod-0.4.

I won a perl book on perlcast.com

I won the Perl Testing Developer Notebook on Perlcast.com. This book is written by Ian Langworth and chromatic. I'm very happy and curious about when it will arrive.

My website is working again.

A few weeks ago, I lost my harddisk because of a crash. On this harddisk was the software with which I generate my website. Until last saturday I haven't had time to set it all up again.

I wrote the software for creating the website myself. It generates pages using a few templates and a directory of posts and articles. The website is at www.stuifzand.com/peter. It also contains a part that can create a blog.

The blog now has monthly archive pages, tags/categories, permalinks and of course the software that comes with it. So at least I can add features where I think it's necessary. That is a great feature for programmers.

The only thing that I still need are comments. Users can't post comments on the weblog. It's one the things that weblogs really need. I'm not yet sure, how to create commnents in a way that's easy and useful.

Using screen: splitting screens

It's been a long time since I wrote about screen, but here is another one

It sometimes is useful to show two screen next to each other. In screen you can split the screen with C-a S. You're terminal will be split in two parts, one above the other.

The screen you were using is shown in the top part. The other part will be empty. To move to the other part press C-a TAB. You'll notice that this screen is empty. To make this screen useful you can switch to another screen by pressing one of the screen switch keys.

C-a TAB should also be used for switching back. The only thing that's left to say here is when you've created to many splits, you can type C-a Q to reset the screen to have only one screen visible.