http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ 2010-03-11T08:08:00+00:00 http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/ http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-02-18T13:59:50+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix?rev=1266501590&do=diff I run Linux at home, and use it constantly at work. On the those few occasions then I have to work on a Windows box I use Cygwin (a wp>unix-like shell for Windows(TM)). Note: This are also includes web-related things, such as Apache, which arn't really specific to unix & linux systems text/html 2010-02-09T19:28:40+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/start?rev=1265743720&do=diff Welcome to the personal website of Robert Meerman. Oratory Photos now on Facebook ["The Society" pose next to their trophy mini-bus] It's moved to Facebook. You may not be able to view it unless your a friend, but to be honest it's not of much interest if you're not. text/html 2010-01-13T23:20:37+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/gateway?rev=1263424837&do=diff Due to the wholesome failure of my ISP to do things in a nice way my ADSL router was rendered useless and I was forced to either setup my own router or be content with a single PC on the internet in a house of 6 computers... I chose to setup my own gateway. text/html 2010-01-11T11:16:17+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/file_renamer?rev=1263208577&do=diff Here you'll find a little program which can rename your video collection for you, it has the following nifty features: * Automatically downloads episode titles from the web * Can handle a massive variety of filenames * Cleans up long filenames * Very customisable * Completely automatic! text/html 2010-01-09T19:00:25+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/file_renamer_redesign?rev=1263063625&do=diff Design Principles Caveat:... * Pretty code * Modular --- the Perl version of the script suffered really badly from being unstructured * A different function for each use-case. Thereby making the code semantic, and easier to extend. Modularity Although it is clear to me that the system should be modular, I am as yet undecided on the subject of Python modules. One of the reason I hesitate is that every Python module is a separate file, and I want to keep the script as a single file. text/html 2009-12-20T20:25:34+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/coding/gui?rev=1261340734&do=diff I've yet to try my hand at writing a Graphical User Interface for any of my scripts. * GUI Builder: python-wxglade * Python Imaging Library <--> wxPython: <http://wiki.wxpython.org/WorkingWithImages> * wxPython docs text/html 2009-12-20T20:19:13+00:00 Robert Meerman http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/wmii?rev=1261340353&do=diff I've been experimenting with using wmii as my window manager in Ubuntu Karmic, without discarding all of the Gnome desktop features. * <http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/01/you-got-your-windowmaker-in-my-peanut.html> Creating ~/.wmii preferences # Boiler plate for Python support mkdir ~/.wmii cd ~/.wmii ln -s /etc/X11/wmii/python/pygmi pygmi ln -s /etc/X11/wmii/python/pyxp pyxp # Probably want to modify wmiirc.py (only clean way to alter the colours) cp /etc/X11/wmii/python/wmiirc.py w…