Moin
I am going to shutdown the server and network and the phone system now for complete reinstall and hardware upgrade / exchange. Hopefully the phone will work in one hour again and the network right after. The server can take a little bit longer… May be the tux with me….
Moin
Just figured out together with DrScofield how to export the Display via an SSH tunnel after changing user to root via sudo. And hey it sound trivial but was not easy to find out. Here is the step by step way.
ssh -X server #as normal user
xterm #for testing if export display as normal user works
echo $DISPLAY #write it down
xauth #enters the shell of xauth
list # find the line with the display number from step 3 for me it was “wpsvm054/unix:12 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 071df2e12cfff0ed75fd0af5869665f7″ remember the first part of it
quit #to leave the shell
xauth extract filename system/unix:12 # the line from step 4.1
sudo su - # to become root
xauth merge filename # filename from step 5
export DISPLAY=:nummer.0 #Displaynumber from step 3 resp. 4.1
Lets find some slides on Microblogging, some videos and some examples. When I tell people about microblogging (or as some people call it “twitter“) they look at me like “what a freak!”. But let me try to explain why microblogging is realy something new and different from chat, blogs or SMS. First of all lets have a look on Slideshare what presentations are available on this topic.
Last weekend on the Barcamp in Stuttgart (#bc0711) I learned more about OpenStreetMap. Extreme impressing! What I really liked was the tremendous power of communities. Peter gave a very good presentation on Openstreetmap.
I plan to analyse at least one WEB 2.0 service per day and write a short blog on that.
Starting today with the “Otherinbox“. Nice combination of instant email service and web emailer. If you subscribe to the service you get a domain like ansi.otherinbox.com where you can use several email addresses like facebook@ansi.otherinbox.com or intershop@ansi.otherinbox.com. The service accepts all emails for this domain and shows them in a web based mailer in seperate folders. Nice and usefull. At the moment they are in closed beta but you can follow them on twitter at @otherinbox.
This post if more for myself then for others because you can find this information on many places. I bought a Garmin GPS Map 60 some time ago. It works great with Linux and the GPSBabel software. In order to transfer the loc files from the Geocaching.com side you can use this script:
This script converts all the *.loc files in one folder into one GPX and one KML file. the KML file can be placed on a webserver and then fiewed with google maps or via google earth. Here are some usefull commands:
I had this idea to use build a real distributed microblogger system a while ago. Unfortunately I was a little bit to late and twitter lost so many links between users (follow and followers) this night. But better now then never. I will post here from time to time parts of the pig picture how to build such a system. This time how to extract the list of friends from your Twitter account and generate a list of RSS feeds out of it.
Twitter has a cool API wich we can use legally. The xml list of users you follow can be retrieved with
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/USERNAME.xml?lite=true&page=1..n (for me its ansi)
Having at the moment 112 user I follow (yesterday more then 160. ) page 1 and 2 are all my guys.
This small xsl stylesheet extracts the userids. (if anyone is into xsl please help me here. Would be great to extract username, realname and user with comma separated per line. Please add comments if you know the solution, I appreciate it!)
is doing the job. So we end up with a text file each line with one RSS feed. I totally agree its much easier at the moment to call the “user and friend” rss feed from twitter but the idea behind this is to get a list of each user so future systems can really be distributed among many microblogging systems.