All you have to do is put the script in place and tell your system with crontab -e to execute it every now and then:

# m h  dom mon dow   command

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/mythnetstatus.py

For the lazy reader here is a complete set of commands, just copy-paste in a terminal to download and set everything up:

wget http://content.wuala.com/contents/Eubolist_/www/mythnetstatus.zip?dl=1 && mv mythnetstatus.zip?dl=1 mythnetstatus.zip && unzip mythnetstatus.zip && sudo mv mythnetstatus.py /usr/local/bin && sudo cp var/www/mythnettv-status /var/www && rm -Rf var && crontab -l > cron.tmp && echo “* * * * * /usr/local/bin/mythnetstatus.py” >> cron.tmp && crontab cron.tmp && rm cron.tmp

I’ve been using their service for about a year now and am quite happy with it. Sadly though, despite multiple requests, they haven’t included National Geographic and Discovery Channel documentaries yet. So today I took the time and wrote customfeed, a little python script that is able to fetch multiple feeds, sort the items and concatenate them in the right order to a new feed. Although I wrote the script for use with ezRSS feeds, it should work just as well with any other feeds (might need some little modifications or tweaks though).

The script depends on python-feedparser, so make sure you have that one installed:

sudo aptitude install python-feedparser

or:

sudo easy_install feedparser

The most convenient way is to set up a cronjob that executes customfeed.py every few hours or so. Mine looks like this:

24 */6 * * * /usr/local/bin/customfeed.py

1. sudo ln -s /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-cgi.conf /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/
2. Add the following section to your /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file:
   ### Python Config ###
   cgi.assign = (
   “.py” => “/usr/bin/python”
   )
3. Restart lighty: sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
   
   
   
   

That should do the trick. As it says in the title, this is a simple and painless way to enable Python CGI scripts on lighty.

Step 1: Download the image of the distro you want to use. In my case XUbuntu 10.04.

Step2: If there is data that you still need on your flash drive, save it on your desktop or somewhere else on your harddrive. I created a folder ‘Data’ on my desktop.

Step3: Open a terminal and type in mount . This should give you a list of mounted drives on your Mac, like this:

eubolists-macbook-pro:~ eubolist$ mount

/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/BOOTCAMP (fusefs, local, synchronous)

/dev/disk1s2 on /Volumes/Time Machine-Backups (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)

/dev/disk3 on /Volumes/8GB DRIVE (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners) <– This is the one we want

681+1 records in
681+1 records out
714168320 bytes transferred in 225.925632 secs (3161077 bytes/sec)

1. Save the SHSH blob of your device. To do so you either have to download the necessary tool for Windows or Mac or edit your hosts file (/etc/hosts) to point “gs.apple.com” to “74.208.10.249″ (Saurik’s server)
2. Perform a full backup with iTunes! Especially if you’re trying to jailbreak your iPad – the whole procedure as well as Cydia on iPad is still considered beta.

Then go to http://spiritjb.com/ and download the jailbreak application for Mac or Windows. The jailbreak itself is as easy as one single click.

Tests about the new Ubuntu will be on my blog soon!

A solution was quickly found, with a $ gift card or certificate you can open an account in the US-Apple Store. I just opened another account on an address of a relative in the US. For everyone who isn’t lucky enough to have a relative or friend in the states you can open it  to an imaginary address. Although I have no idea how legal or illegal that is, so you might want to check that first before doing something illicit. I won’t write any stupid disclaimer here, you’re a big boy/girl.

These gift cards can be acquired on eBay, just do a search on your local eBay site. Searching for “US apple gift certificate” on ebay.co.uk should give you similar results like this:

Search results

If you don’t want to wait for your code take a vendor who scans the codes and mails it to you – worked pretty well for me, I had the code in less than 15 minutes.

Next step is, after changing the country by accepting the terms and condition of the US, to enter your coupon code next to “REDEEM COUPON CODE” or similar and select “none” under the payment methods.

That’s it, you should be able to have access to all the sweet iPad apps available now! Have fun and keep this trick in mind for future Apple products.

Google state in their blog that this change will only affect “fewer than 1% of the search queries”. Given that Google has about 91’000’000 search queries a day, “fewer than 1%” is still “fewer than 910’000″ search queries – which is quite a lot.

If you own a webserver on your own, like me, you may be worried that websites of you / y0ur customers might be negatively affected by the change. But don’t panic: Testing and improving the speed of your websites is actually very simple.

• Step 1: Install FireBug, a FireFox extension.
• Step 2: Install Page Speed, an extension for FireBug.
• Step 3: Test the websites you wish to improve and follow the instructions of FireBug/Page Speed (=adjust code or webserver config).

See, that wasn’t that difficult, was it?

If you want to upgrade your existing Ubuntu installation to the newest Beta version type “gksu update-manager -d” in a terminal.