You need zenity to see the progress bar, it is a work in progress as there are some bugs, eg when you click “cancel” the two tar child processes are not killed for some reason, I couldn’t get the correct exit code that probably gets lost somewhere.

Probably in the future I’ll write a better notification.Suggestions and modifications are wellcome.

You need to install “command line progress bar”, in gentoo it can be installed with emerge bar in ubuntu the deb can be grabbed here and installed with gdebi.

my_move:
#! /bin/sh
SOURCE="$1"
DEST="$2"
SIZE=$(du -sb "$SOURCE"|awk '{print $1}')
(cd "$SOURCE" && tar -cf - *)|bar -s $SIZE| (cd "$DEST" && tar -xBpf -)


PixieLive

If you have some flacs and want them in mp3 format (you need lame and flac) you can use this one liner:
for FILE in *.flac; do flac -cd "${FILE}" | lame - "${FILE/.flac/.mp3}"; done

the above line decodes every file that ends in .flac to the standard output (screen) and pipes it to lame that will encode it. “${FILE/.flac/.mp3}” will be the output file, in bash that means: take the variables “$FILE” (that is the original filename), remove “.flac” and substitute “.mp3″.

Nowadays I transcode quite often to 320 kbit/s constant bit rate (CBR)

• achieving the best quality for an mp3 and still being highly portable, some players don’t like variable bitrate of high quality ( like the V0 preset)
• doing something unefficient since mp3 is not a good codec for that quality but if your stereo reads just mp3 you don’t have any choices

I simply need to use lame with the proper switches , the above one liner becomes:
for FILE in *.flac; do flac -cd "${FILE}" | lame --cbr --preset insane - "${FILE/.flac/.mp3}"; done

To rip my compact discs and encode my music in flac I use a program for windows called Exact Audio Copy (EAC), my Wine build doesn’t like it for some reasons and Virtualbox has historical problems in handling cdroms correctly, the solution was VMWare. The native solution is RubyRipper

This is the log entry (/var/log/mail)
Aug 21 22:45:30 myserver postfix/smtpd[12071]: warning: unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure

and this is the regex that work , just remove the part after “authentication failed” (/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sasl.conf)

failregex = (?i): warning: [-._\w]+\[\]: SASL (?:LOGIN|PLAIN|(?:CRAM|DIGEST)-MD5) authentication failed

Test it:
fail2ban-regex /var/log/mail.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sasl.conf

if you are on a slow server or on a big mail server use /var/log/mail.err instead

emerge --ask -C `eix -C kde-base --only-names --installed`

nano /etc/make.conf

and delete kde from the USE flags, remove qt3support and qt4 also if you don’t need them anymore

emerge -uavtqND world"

Now you should have just a few kde packages in the list you got as an output of that command, it’s your choice to leave them or unmerge them manually, with unmerge -pv –depclean you can see what packages pulls in your atom.

Razionale

1. iscriversi ad un servizio di dns dinamico, si potrà scegliere un dominio di terzo livello ( terzolivello.secondolivello.it) a cui associare l’indirizzo ip del computer.
2. iscriversi a dnsomatic che provvederà a fornire a tutti i servizi che si usano (come i servizi di dns dinamico ma anche altri come opendns) l’indirizzo ip del computer
3. usare un client che al cambio dell’indirizzo ip avvisa dnsomatic

1) DNS dinamico

1. iscriversi al servizio qui: https://www.dyndns.com/account/entrance/
2. dopo che arriva la mail confermate
3. aggiungete un hostname da qui: https://www.dyndns.com/account/services/hosts/add.html , scegliendo in “hostname” un nome facile da ricordare nel box di sinistra assieme ad un altro nome utilizzando il menu a discesa di destra, poi click su “Use your currently detected IP address” e per ultimo click su “Add to chart” e confermate.

2) Iscriversi a dnsomatic

1. iscriversi qui https://www.dnsomatic.com/create/
2. Add a service, scegliere DynDNS , mettere userid e password di DynDNS e per ultimo inserire il dominio scelto in fase di registrazione (del tipo mionome.servelinux.org)
3. ora dnsomatic può aggiornare l’ip di dyndns

3) Aggiornare l’ip con il client

gentoo:

emerge ddclient


ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install ddclient


entrambi:

Poi si configura mettendo al posto di “user” il nome utente e “pass” la password scelta su opendns (non dyndns), occhio alle virgole
nano /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

daemon=600 # check every 600 seconds
syslog=yes # log update msgs to syslog
mail-failure=user@email.com # Mail failed updates to user
use=web, web=myip.dnsomatic.com
server=updates.dnsomatic.com, \
protocol=dyndns2, \
login=user, \
password=pass \
all.dnsomatic.com

gentoo:

rc-config start ddclient
rc-config add ddclient default


ubuntu:

sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient restart

TEST

Y-worked without any modification M-requires modification N-did not work at all L-limited

Ubuntu 8.04 ***Kernel-2.6.24-19-Generic SMP

KB L(1)
Mouse(TPad) Y
XFree86 Y
Sound Y
HDD Y
DVD/CD L(2)
DVD-RW/CD-RW L(2)
SDC Y(3)
IEEE1394 Not Tested
USB Y
USB CDROM Not Tested
USB FDD Not Tested
USB Mouse Y
LAN M (7)
W-LAN Y(4)
Bluetooth M(5)
Shutdown Y
Reboot Y
ACPI Y ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Suspend Y(6)
Hibernation Y(6)

1) Keyboard:Not all function keys works, the most important ones do like lcd brightness, sound and the disable trackpad one
2) DVD-RW: Works but I have a really bad performance. It could be the same thing that affects my desktop and is a pretty common thing on intel chipset
3) Card Reader: Works with SDHC (High Capacity), tested on microSDHC 4GB (with adapter)
4) W-LAN: Toshiba suggests not needed modifications, for me it worked out of the box
5) Bluetooth ref: Ubuntu Forums
On toshibas bluetooth is switched off by default on boot. It can be switched on by an acpi call that is pretty easy to make in windows ( press a button ) but not in linux , omnibook make things much easier. First you will need some packages to grab the source from svn and to compile it.

$ sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-source linux-headers-generic
Then you can check the svn source and compile
$ cd ~
$ mkdir omnibook
$ cd omnibook
$ svn co https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk
$ cd trunk
$ make
$ sudo make install


The A300 is not directly supported by omnibook module so we have to force it with proper options

$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe omnibook ectype=12

after this bluetooth should work, if you want to load the module on boot make a file called omnibook.modprobe in /etc/modprobe.d/ with the following line:
options omnibook ectype=12 userset=1

and then you can finally add “omnibook” in /etc/modules

There’s a bug in Ubuntu that make you unable to receive files ( toshiba side is all working, the bug is in the bluez-utils package) , downgrading is a solution

6) Suspend/Hibernation: I had problem with the xorg drivers. After installing Ati Binary drivers it worked liked a charm , I’m very happy for this.Edit: after waking up from hibernation the bluetooth system is disabled for some reasons. “echo 1>/proc/omnibook/bluetooth” will do the job.

7 Wired Lan:
rmmod sky2
cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net
cp -p sky2.ko{,.orig}
perl -pe 's/\0\0\x6c\x43/\0\0\x55\x43/g' sky2.ko.orig > sky2.ko
Note

I feel that with the newer bios ( 14/07 ) things work better, the fan is less noisy for example

Links

• Linux Information for Toshiba
• Some linux toshiba utilities (you probably wont need these)

My superkaramba monitor is based on the dual cpu monitor by Loacoon, I changed it a little to show some useful stuff , some of them gentoo specific ( last sync, last emerges, currently emerging….. genlop is a dependency).

Here’s the code, on my system superkaramba themes are in ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/

Superkaramba theme