This is where Iotop comes into play. It is just a python script which evaluates the per-task disk I/O accounting statistics exported by the Linux kernel (2.6.20+).

This is what you need to enable in your kernel configuration:

General setup
[*] Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)
[ ]   Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]   Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]     Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)

Firefox 3 is finally ready to download (though all servers are at the moment more or less overwhelmed, due to the worldrecord attempt).

Since it’s first release it integrates very well into the various systems because someone at Mozilla (after all) had the look & feel in mind. I think thats a big achievement though I stilled wished a support for the various password managers like the keychain or the kde wallet would have made it into the final release.

To top it all off, the UI gets even more “mac” with Aroonax’s GrApple Theme from takebacktheweb.org. (Which is an awesome domainname by the way )

So folks, have a nice day and light a candle, hoping for people around the world to finally abandon this so called “internet explorer” and get their copy of web-freedom.

word!

It’s definitely worth to check it out: There are 50 commits since 2.6.25.5, many of them backports of bugfixes in 2.6.26-rcx…

Happy compiling

At last I searched for a Java library containing an HTML-parsers and I found TagSoup. This is a SAX-compliant HTML-parser specialized in re-formating and cleaning up faulty HTML code.

This is <B>bold, <I>bold italic, </b>italic, </i>normal text

will be rewritten to

This is <b>bold, <i>bold italic, </i></b><i>italic, </i>normal text.

One advantage of TagSoup is the Xpath-like query mechanism. It parses the HTML code and generates an object structure representing this content. Now the user can access the single elements. One possible example could be:

def slurper = new XmlSlurper(new org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser())
html = slurper.parse("an_example_file.html")
table = html.body.div.find{ it.@id == "content" }.form.table.
find{ it.@id == "attempts" }

This retrieves the table “attempts” placed inside a form in the div “content”. The method findAll() will retrieve all elements for a given attribute or with given child elements.

After all I fell in love with TagSoup. It saves a lot of work when you have to access HTML content of websites, portals or similar, which are not able to send a XHTML 1.x compliant responses. But this is an other topic .

Both movies demonstrate the numerous astonishing features of Blender and caused loads of valuable feedback for improvements for the Blender developers. In order to keep up with the young tradition, Blender already started the follow-up project called Apricot in December 2007. This time the main focus lies not only on modeling and rendering, but also on the included 3D-Engine that Blender comes with.

export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

to my .zshrc. The result is quite satisfying and looks like this:

I really fell in love with man pages again. Ok, I confess: I sometimes really care about appearance

Update: While gentoo has some problems with the mentioned method it even works fine for mac.

Here’s how you go:

Just type ~? and make sure that the last you typed in was nothing or a newline. SSH will then show you the list of currently supported escape sequences:

~. - terminate connection
~B - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C - open a command line
~R - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~# - list forwarded connections
~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
~? - this message
~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice

For me are ~C and ~# the most important commands.
One can open or close port forwardings in the command mode – which I could have used so many times

And because escapes are only recognized immediately after newline, you can still cd into your homedir using cd ~

Thank god, they brought back the command line interface for Linux and Mac OS X. With the 5.0 release the GUI (so far only known by Windows user) was established on all platforms. This was quite a good improvement but in return the removed the possibility to create and manage volumes on the command line…
It seems they realized this mistake and fixed it
In addition TrueCrypt now supports hibernation on Windows platforms with encrypted system partitions and the bootloader is now compressed so that it takes only 27 KB. This is an advantage especially for systems where the BIOS needs a lot of memory.

For the hole list of improvements and bug-fixes view the changelog.

Get it!