Gospy-applet is a Gnome applet that monitors changes on servers and web pages. You can add an illimited number of sources to monitor. It is possible to detect changes in HTTP header fields, IP associated with domain name, page content, page status, page load time and so on.

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I write this post mainly as a reminder, but it might be also usefull for some people.
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Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop.

This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install).
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.

Big thanks to rainwoodman and lviggiani for their awesome work on this very useful application. Read the rest of this entry »

I needed a new vmware image larger than my old 2Go vmdk. After searching a bit, I found a solution with qemu, but the guide wasn’t very clear and the vmware image creation was done with a mystical command that I didn’t want try to understand.
So I downloaded VMware workstation 6.5.1. After registering, vmware sent me an email with an activation link to obtain my evaluation license (free 30 days trial).

DBdesigner is a tool to design models and database graphically with a nice feature that can draw the database schema from an existing database (reverse engineering.
There is no deb and the install may be a bit tricky due to depndencies to old libs and missing links.

Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.6 on your desktop.
This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step.
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.
Another note : globalmenu doesn’t require anymore to patch libgtk, good news
Big thanks to rainwoodman for his awesome work on this very useful applet.
A new version of this guide is now available here

Since it has been requested in the guesstbook, here are some details about my last desktop.

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Many extensions aren’t compatible with firefox 3 and then are disabled. But most of them would work.
Here’s a little workaround for this issue.

My best friend fabler (aka Fabien Lerable) exhibes his artwork in a café near paris for a month from the 15th of May. Don’t miss it, it’s really worth to see

Café la lie de vin, 85 avenue Jean Baptiste Clément. Métro : Pont de Saint Cloud. Opening thursday 15th of May 6pm.

Here is the apt-get command to install a basic lamp environment on ubuntu hardy 8.04 with some “quick start help” commands. Read the rest of this entry »