Congratulations to Obama! Enough about that.

I have already slacked on my post for every other day. I apologize for that. Not like people actually read this. I need to write my own blog software or just install wordpress and be done with it. Anyways, I have updated my desktop at home to the latest Ubuntu 8.10. I had some issues with upgrading my UbuntuStudio, so I decided to scrap it and install a fresh copy of 8.10. Here’s what my desktop looks like now:

I’m going to keep tweaking and get all my software installed. I’ll keep you posted.

I really wanted to create a plugin for Twitter and XChat2, but I decided to get lazy. Only caveat for using this is that you have to escape your own text.

Bash Script, I named it twit, made it executable and placed it in my PATH.

#!/bin/bash
nohup curl -s -u YOURUSER:YOURPASS --data status="`echo $@`" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Now this doesn’t return anything to the console, and it nohups it so you don’t have to wait for it to do its stuff.

wstearns@ubuntu:~$ twit Ok, now that I have bash working. I am happy. :-\)

Notice how I had to escape the ). So, all there is to do in XChat is add a Settings->Advanced->User Commands. Now just add a command, I did mine with a name of TWIT and a command of exec twit &2. To try it out now you just do a /twit Hmmm...let me see if my wrapper works in xchat now..

So there we go, I have my cheap interface on my Ubuntu box in both apps that I use the most for the price of one.

I’ve been wanting to setup a new Ubuntu server here at the house for testing applications locally without having to run a VM. I wanted to get something small and fairly silent. Luckily, or tragically, however you look at it, my youngest son found out that sitting on a laptop isn’t a good idea. Now the boys don’t have their own laptop. :-)