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Comment on Re-enable virtual terminals on Ubuntu 12.04 by Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:26:56 +0000

Thanks for information. I have NVIDIA GEForce 6200 and applied grub not working for me. Ctr Alt F1,2.. still get blank screen.

Comment on Web Laundry, Smart Cards, Python and OS X Smorgasbord by Cristian

Cristian — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:56:55 +0000

Hi,

I tried the program, but I’m getting empty .bin files.
The “write_ar” functions are returning a 69 00 response instead of the expected 90 00.

Any ideas?

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by sethjust

sethjust — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:56:30 +0000

I realize that I didn't cover this in the post, but the calendar display relies on using a fixed-width font to align the text properly because conky only offers simple alignment tools. In your case, it looks like the font you're using has spaces that are more narrow than the numbers, so things don't line up properly. I use the line xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8 to change my entire conky setup to use a fixed-width font, but the comment above by Ernesto shows an example of setting the font for only the calendar.

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by William Patrick Wend

William Patrick Wend — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:04:21 +0000

This is fantastic! I need a monthly calendar on my desktop and this perfectly satisfies my needs. However, I have one issue. My numbers aren’t lining up right. What could be causing this? Here is a screenshot: http://wpwend.com/images/Screenshot062512.png

Comment on GPSd under OS X (revisited) by Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:51:54 +0000

After following all your instructions, any syntax entered in the terminal, starting with gpsd, returns “gpsd: command not found”

Comment on Sexy Alphabet Image Generator by Keso_R

Keso_R — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:19:00 +0000

Impressive how ‘ye olde stylings’ and curved phallus were used in this. I can imagine it took a great deal of painstaking effort for this erotic novelty.

Comment on Map Tiles with Python + GDAL by Dabbler : More Map Scripts

Dabbler : More Map Scripts — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:32:48 +0000

[...] the last installment‎ I wrote a script (gdal_slice.py) to cut up geotagged images and save them in a format that [...]

Comment on GPSd under OS X by Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X

Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:51 +0000

[...] on OS X, I set my sights on GPSDrive, an open source navigation and map viewing program. When I posted about GPS a couple years ago, I installed GPSDrive, using the version from Fink. However, the latest version of GPSDrive on Fink [...]

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by sethjust

sethjust — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:43:23 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I’m glad that the code was useful!

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by SStookey

SStookey — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:59:33 +0000

Hey guys… I know its been about a year since anybody has posted comments on this particular thread but i would like to add something that was giving me much headache over trying to get the date to highlight correctly in my version of Ubuntu 11.10. Hopefully if someone else is wanting this on there desktop it will save them the headache. Your guys code works wonderfully but instead of the day of the month being highlighted i would get this _[] []_ around the date. I soon realized that it was the block highlight from the cal command that was screwing everything up. I used cal -h instead of cal to fix this problem. It prints out just a standard calendar with no highlight. The code that seth wrote and that others have modified takes care of the highlighting like it should. LINUX_4_LIFE

Comment on GPSDrive on OS X by Dabbler : Map Tiles with Python + GDAL

Dabbler : Map Tiles with Python + GDAL — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:37:00 +0000

[...] getting GPSDrive running on OS X I started looking into different sources for maps. The GPSDrive wiki has a couple of interesting [...]

Comment on GPSDrive on OS X by Dabbler : GPSd under OS X

Dabbler : GPSd under OS X — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:11:20 +0000

[...] Update 7-13-11: I’ve posted an updated set of instructions on getting GPSd to compile on OS X here; this post will remain for archival purposes. For information on installing GPSDrive, see this post. [...]

Comment on GPSd under OS X (revisited) by Dabbler : GPSd under OS X

Dabbler : GPSd under OS X — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:09:53 +0000

[...] 7-13-11: I’ve posted an updated set of instructions on getting GPSd to compile on OS X here; this post will remain for archival purposes. For information on install GPSDrive, see this [...]

Comment on GPSd under OS X (revisited) by Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X

Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:30:44 +0000

[...] getting GPSd to compile on OS X, I set my sights on GPSDrive, an open source navigation and map viewing program. When I posted [...]

Comment on GPSd under OS X (revisited) by Dabbler : Sign your email like Randall Waterhouse

Dabbler : Sign your email like Randall Waterhouse — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:57:10 +0000

[...] in 7th grade. One thing that caught my attention on this reading (especially in light of my recent GPS post) is the way that one of the main characters, Randall Lawrence Waterhouse, signs his email: Randall [...]

Comment on GPSd under OS X by Dabbler : GPSd under OS X (revisited)

Dabbler : GPSd under OS X (revisited) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:07:31 +0000

[...] been almost 2 and half years since I originally posted about GPSd and OS X. That post got quite a bit of traffic for a while, but a whole lot has changed since then. If [...]

Comment on Chrome + Grooveshark = Blank Page!?! by jenny

jenny — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:39:07 +0000

This helped me so much, I had the same problem!
Thanks

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by Ernesto

Ernesto — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:53:56 +0000

How about this one:
${color darkcyan}${voffset -2}${hr 1}
${color}${time %H:%Mh}${alignr}${time %m-%d-%y}
${voffset -16}${font :size=18}${color darkCyan}${alignc}${time %I:%M%P}${font}
${voffset 4}${color darkcyan}${alignc}${time %A %B %d, %Y}
${font}${voffset -4}${color darkcyan}${hr 1}
${color}${font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:size=09}${execpi 150 cal -h | grep -v b | grep -v J | grep -v Ma | grep -v A | sed s/” $(date +%e)”/\$\{“color tan1″}\&\$\{color}/ | sed s/”$(date +%e) “/\$\{“color cyan”}\&\$\{color}/ | sed s/”$(date +%a | cut -c1-2)”/\$\{“color tan1″}\&\$\{color}/}

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by sethjust

sethjust — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:08:43 +0000

Good spot — I actually hadn’t seen that because I’m away from my Ubuntu box for the holidays. I’ve updated the code in the post. Thanks!

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by Zacco

Zacco — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:36:20 +0000

On 27th Dec, I realized that my modification was not at all perfect :) I guess you noticed it, too! Here’s the fix:

${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/”$^\|[^0-9]$$DJS”‘\b’/’\1${color orange}’”$DJS”‘$color’/}

I.e. if the day appears in the first position in the calendar, it must be highlighted.

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by sethjust

sethjust — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:31:32 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to check that out (I’m away from my Ubuntu box for the next few weeks), but thanks for the tip! I don’t use alignc anyway, but it’s good to know!

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by joeham

joeham — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:03:50 +0000

The new 1.8.x conky breaks the old script.

They “iixed” alignc in the newer conky and the ${alignc} that is used on every new line in your script to parse the cal output is now longer needed. I removed it and now the script works in newer rev of conky.

Your script is quite popular and there are posts from people encountering this bug. Most just recommend reverting to older conky versions.

I am hoping you make this available as a fix so people can continue using your conky calendar script.

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by sethjust

sethjust — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:04:16 +0000

I updated your post with the right code. That looks great to me, I’ll be sure to use it if I ever free up some screen space ;)

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by Zacco

Zacco — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:19:24 +0000

For some reason, my previous comment was altered after submission: your command to display the current month with today’s highlighting should be placed in between the previous and next month (in the preceding comment) in order to get 3 months vertically.

Comment on Conky Calendar with Date Highlight by Zacco

Zacco — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:15:44 +0000

Hi, You're welcome. As I was playing with this, I have found something that you may be interested in as well. I wanted to have several month visible. As date prints 3 months in the same row, your solution would higlight the current day in each, which is clearly not what we want. But if we print the previous and next month separately before and after the current month (vertically), respectively, without applying the highlighting, the result is what I needed. Maybe others will find it useful, too.

${execpi 60 YEAR=`date --date='1 month ago' +%_Y`; MONTH=`date --date='1 month ago' +%_m`; cal -m $MONTH $YEAR}

${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/”\([^0-9]\)$DJS”‘\b’/'\1${color orange}’”$DJS”‘$color’/}

${execpi 60 YEAR=`date --date='next month' +%_Y`; MONTH=`date --date='next month' +%_m`; cal -m $MONTH $YEAR}