Thanks to a message on identi.ca I ve saw this program usable from the command line that allows you to easily create custom desk calendars, marked with the dates that interest you and with the ability to add pictures to one (or more) special days.
I’m talking of pcal shipped with anothe calendar programming lcal
PCAL and LCAL are calendar-generation programs which produce nice-looking PostScript output.
In the past I had made a leap into the world of open hardware, and i had wrote some about Arduino, one of the best projects in this field.
I’m interested because what happened in the world with open source software is beginning now in the hardware world, and the Arduino project is an excellent example of this.
But enough if you’re curious I suggest you go and watch this excellent documentary.
After reading the article “How to create a screencast of your Linux desktop” I started doing some test of screencast with the program recordmydesktop.
In particular, I did some testing with both the gtk frontend to the command line, but unfortunately in the first trials i was not able to get any sound in the video.
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If you have not already heard of it i’d like to point out the excellent initiative “The Humble Indie Bundle #2” for 5 days is still possible to buy 5 good games and choose the price you want to pay too good to be true?
Then I add also that you can decide whether, and to what percentage, to allocate part of the sum for charity in two associations.
Have you ever having to control more than a single file with your tail -f ?
I will and I just recently found out that you can run the tail command specifying the -f flag several times so you can give the command:
tail -f /varlog/messages -f /var/log/syslog
You’ll get an output like this:
==> messages <== Nov 22 00:43:07 laptop kernel: [ 61.487969] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
==> syslog <== Nov 22 00:43:31 laptop pulseaudio[1773]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
==> messages <== Nov 22 00:43:31 laptop pulseaudio[1773]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
==> syslog <==
Nov 22 00:45:44 laptop ntpd[1118]: kernel time sync status change 6001