Comments on: Improving the mocp status screensaver

By: binclock and a screensaver script « Motho ke motho ka botho

binclock and a screensaver script « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:08:36 +0000

[...] going to “solve” this the same way I “solved” part of the display for the mocp status screensaver script. This is date, the omnipresent tool for telling time, and sed, which can center things for [...]

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:05:24 +0000

Personally, I’d rather use the more dependable hosting on WordPress than the less reliable service that’s easily accessed. *shrugs*

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:52:43 +0000

Yes, the problem is that it would require me to use Firefox to upload a picture (or a graphical browser, anyway). omploader was text-browser friendly, and I had a script to upload photos to the site, so I could put together the whole post from my Pentium.

It’ll probably be back in a little while. They’ve been offline in the past, but usually recover. …

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:40:52 +0000

First xs.to, then omploader. This is why I just store my pictures on WordPress.

The uploader has a “browser”, Flash-less mode btw.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:06:21 +0000

Yes, I noticed that. Sigh.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:50:39 +0000

Omploader appears to be down, so your images aren’t showing up. Anywhere.

By: Nugnuts

Nugnuts — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:56:43 +0000

Pretty spiffy

I’m no bash expert, but I know what a fan of efficiency you are. You could avoid a teeny bit of file IO and do your sed line with a pipe ala something like:

printf "`uname -r -s` on ${HOSTNAME}\n`date +\"%F %T %P\"`" | sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,133\}$/ &/;ta' -e 's/$ *$\1/\1/'