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I'm still around. Just been using kubuntu lately and working on arduino stuff instead of scripting. Figured I'd stop back in since I miss the community. It was supposed to be more power efficient because it used less resources, taxing the computer less. I'm not really sure how effective that is. I was also working on a power management gui for it, but pretty much abandoned it, so they don't include it in the newer releases. A couple people have been asking about it lately though, maybe I'll pick it back up and see what type of energy savings I can get out of the newer distros. Would be nice to have a kill-a-watt though.

I just throw everything that I don't care about people knowing in the regular dropbox folder, for everything else I use encfs. pretty easy to use, and it works well with dropbox because it uses per-file encryption so you don't have to re-upload the whole folder every time one file changes. Just make sure you have the decrypted mount point outside of your dropbox folder.

here's the one I wrote a while ago http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/31045/#p31045 those are the instructions...but grab the copy of the script from the end of that thread... It also does artist art and similar artists

you're lucky I randomly decided to check the forums today...I haven't been around for a while. Anyway I don't know how well this app will still work because I never updated it for ext4. The error you're getting is saying it can't find a section in the config file... did it start doing this on a stock install? or did you change some settings?

just picked up the bundle...for 5 dollars it's a pretty good deal. Most of his games are pretty challenging though. I read an article by him that he doesn't believe in having difficulty levels, he just ramps up the difficulty in the game until you die, then it backs off a little. (that was for revenge of the titans)

for important documents I scan them and have them in dropbox encrypted with encfs. For music and movies and stuff I have too much so I just keep it on a raid 5 array (need to get a spare in case I lose a drive though). I wish I had the money for offsite backups, just dd my raid drives every quarter or so and give them to a friend or something, but I don't have the money for that.

are you running conky? try turning off conky if you are before you start cairo-compmgr. If that's the problem you need to change the own_window_type setting in your conky config to something else.

didn't realize you wanted the hosts in conky...you could just use:

nmap -sP -oG /tmp/nmap.out 192.168.0.1/24 >>/dev/null && grep Up /tmp/nmap.out

for a list of the hosts that are up, or:

echo "`nmap -sP -oG /tmp/nmap.out 192.168.0.1/24 >>/dev/null && grep -c Up /tmp/nmap.out` hosts are up"

for the equivalent of the perl script you posted.

Here you go, got sick of messing around in bash so here it is in python. Just change the path where it says base.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os,time

base = "/home/eric/tmp/shows"
shows = os.listdir(base)
for show in shows:
  if(os.path.isdir("%s/%s" % (base, show))):
    seasons = os.listdir("%s/%s" % (base, show))
    for season in seasons:
      if(os.path.isdir("%s/%s/%s" % (base, show, season))):
    episodes=os.listdir("%s/%s/%s" % (base, show, season))
    count = 0
    for episode in episodes:
      ctime = os.path.getctime("%s/%s/%s/%s" % (base, show, season, episode))
      if(((time.time() - ctime) / 86000) < 2):
        count += 1
    if(count > 0):
      print("%s   %s(%s)" % (show, season, count))

If you want it formatted differently let me know, I had it print out seasons seperately but can change it if you want.

Well I looked around some more and found cheops-ng...it's pretty old though and isn't in the repos anymore. If I have the spare time I may just try to build something new with python and nmap.

I wrote this up real quick for you, not a ton of testing but it works. You will need to install libnotify-bin and run this script as a cron job as your user(or however you want to trigger it). Also you will need to manually change the 192.168.0.1 to your subnet that you want to monitor.

#!/bin/bash

nmap -oG /tmp/nmap.out 192.168.0.1/24 >> /dev/null
hosts=`grep Up /tmp/nmap.out | awk '{print $2}'`
results=""
if [ -f /tmp/nmap.old ]
then
  for host in $hosts
  do
    grep -q "$host" /tmp/nmap.old
    if [ $?  -ne 0 ]
    then
      results="$results $host Online
"
    fi
  done
  grep Up /tmp/nmap.out | awk '{print $2}' | while read host
  do
    echo "$hosts" | grep -q "$host"
    if [ $?  -ne 0 ]
    then
      results="$results $host Offline
"
    fi
  done
fi
if [ "$results" != "" ]
then
  notify-send "$results"
fi
mv /tmp/nmap.out /tmp/nmap.old

in the future if you want a nice gui for stuff like that, I usually use phatch. It's free in the repos.