Got something like munin or mrtg, with regularly updated graphs on a webpage somewhere?

Want them in your gnome background, while working nicely with nautilus icons, and still visible through your transparent terminals?

Get gwallscript!

New version of Mailbox Alert!

There have been a lot of changes in the internals, it is queue-based now, you only get one alert when there are multiple new messages in a folder. You can also specify complete accounts, and some bugs have been fixed.

See the complete Changelog for more information. Or, if you're in a hurry, you can download it directly.

Since Mailbox Alert is on addons.mozilla.org, the automatic update will from now on check there, and not my site. Of course, new versions will always show up here first, so if you want to stay ahead, check my site regularly, or join the Mailinglist , where i will post announcements of new versions. If you just like Mailbox , Alert, or you have something to say about it, you are welcome there too :)

I've set up some mailing lists for two of my projects, you can find them at http://jelte.nlnetlabs.nl/mailman/listinfo. (these have been decomissioned as of 2010)

My ipod broke down yesterday, so i'm forced to use my old 256 mb mp3 player, and i did not want to spend any time compiling a music collection for such a small device, so i threw together a small perl script that randomly chooses up to X megabytes of mp3 from a directory tree containing mp3 files. You can get it from my Small Stuff page.

Here you can find some small stuff like little scripts that can make life just that bit easier, but that weren't big enough to have their own pages.

randommp3

Here's a little script that randomly chooses mp3 files from a directory tree and copies them to another directory (or for instance your mp3 player).

It defaults to 230 megabytes but you can give another value if you want.

There is not really much in the error-checking department (like existence of directories) but i think you'll survive :)

gwallscript

Running munin, or mrtg? Want to be able to see their graphs on your desktop?

Yesterday i discovered Telak, but i had some problems integrating it with my gnome setup;

• The images don't show through transparent terminals
• Nautilus Icons and images don't mix
• It takes a LOT of resources (my Xorg went up to 60-80% cpu time, with telak taking the rest...

So i had the idea to download the images once every interval, and integrating them in the background image itself. An (unfortunately not so quick) update with gconftool-2 should then do the rest.

The result is gwallscript, you can specify a base image, and a set of images to put on top of it (and of course sizes and locations).

So if you want to try it out, you can download gwallscript.pl, and a sample .gwallscriptrc config file.

The base image is copied/downloaded once, and every seconds, the other images are fetched. I've got it set up with munin and mrtg graphs, and an interval of every 10 minutes (updates take a few secs in gnome...).

By the way, you need wget installed, as well as the convert and composite tools from ImageMagick.

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