http://dotsandloops.net Dots and Loops Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:05:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: Lifehacker Best Of 2008 Roundup Howto: Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus | Techthrob.comGUI app to customize the nautilus right click menu. An essentially feature of any descent file manager. ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/241 For years now I've been using and managing my Linux server over a SSH connection. Indeed, this entire website was coded up using vim over SSH. In the beginning Unix machines were primarily accessed via teletypewriter (tty's) and CRT terminals connected through a serial connection, and this tradition lives on ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/240 Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: Compiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A crazy 3D window manager for *nix systems. You can use this in place of metacity on a gnome desktop. Alan Doyle » Setup FreeNX under Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) This thing is so fast I'm speechless. After fiddling with ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/239 This is apparently one of the best console (ncurses) bittorrent clients for *nix systems. I've been meaning to switch over to a *nix/console bittorrent client for a while now, so I don't have to leave my Windows machine running all night when downloading torrents. uTorrent is such a sophisticated and ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/238 Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: AppleInsider | Apple ordered to end exclusive iPhone deal with France's Orange I wish something similar would happen in the States. If I could use the iPhone with Verizon I'd almost definitely get one. Bash Shell PS1: 10 Examples to Make Your Linux Prompt ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/237 I kind of like the "genius" playlist feature in the new iTunes, so I attempted to do something similar for J. River's Media Center (my music manager of choice at the moment). The idea behind iTunes "genius" feature is to scour your music database and queue up tracks similar to the ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/236 Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: Screenwm An improvement on the invaluable console multiplexer "screen". Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times This was embarrassingly predicatable. What did they think these kids were going to do on their laptops... crossword puzzles? Vista Keyboard Shortcuts http://dotsandloops.net/vault/235 Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: ExtremeTech | Ten Must-Have Gadgets for Windows Vista Sidebar I've always been suspicious of sidebars and other desktop applets, long before Vista came out (the concept has existed on Linux and OS X for a while now). Sure, they can be fun, but I'm ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/233 There seem to be a plethora of websites offering free DNS services nowadays... ZoneEdit, Granite Canyon, and FreeDNS just to name a few. Just do a google search on "free DNS services". These services offer web based administration of your DNS, and most offer free dynamic DNS, which is nice ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/232 Diligently culled from the web for your perusal: FlickrCash This is an amazingly cool use of javascript and AJAX. Just type in some keywords and this site searches Flickr for matching images, then presents them in a fullscreen thumbnail gallery. While you are viewing it caches the next couple of pages for ... http://dotsandloops.net/vault/231