I tryed out other tools to edit mxml files and ActionScript files. I ended using Emacs with the Flex SDK. I used nXml mode to edit mxml files, since mxml files are xml files. nXml mode checks for errors in xml files while I type it out and it does syntax highlighting for xml in Emacs.

I used the following settings with Emacs in my init.el file.

;; nXml mode settings
(add-hook 'nxml-mode-hook (lambda ()
			    ;; This makes emacs use spaces instead of tabs
			    ;; in nXml mode. It's important to apply this to just files
			    ;; in nXml mode, because sometimes tabs are needed in other
			    ;; files like Makefiles.
			    (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
			    ;; Auto indent with in all files that are edited in nXml mode
			    (local-set-key (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent)))

;; Sets the indents for files edited in nXml mode to be 4 characters
;; (the default is 2 characters)
(setq nxml-child-indent 4)
(setq nxml-outline-child-indent 4)

;; Adds files that end with .mxml to a list of files that will be edited
;; in nxml mode.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.mxml$" . nxml-mode))

Step one: Create a batch file in the thumb drive to deal with the issue of getting different drive letters for your thumb drive.

@echo off
set HOME=%~d0\emacs-settings
%~d0\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe

%~d0 will get the drive letter that the batch file is in

Step two: Run that batch file (double click the batch file). This will cause GNU Emacs run from a thumb drive and store it’s settings on the thumb drive.

The number of Facebook apps I hide from the news feed. Here are my maths (I used the countings*)

• 544 for being boring
  • 218 have names that starts with the word What
  • 116 start with the word Which

* This does not include people who I hide because of excessive usage of those types of Facebook Apps. The numbers are lower than what they’re suppose to be. I’m sure those numbers will get higher as days go on.

I wish Facebook will allow me to hide applications from the news feed using regular expressions.

In Gnome

In KDE

If you want to use Gnome’s notifications system or Canonical’s Notify OSD (the one Ubuntu uses) you still need notify-send installed. (See the previous post about making BashPodder use Notify OSD for more information.)

I just added the lines in the box below to the end of bashpodder.shell
If you added the line from previous post about making BashPodder use Notify OSD you need to replace that line calling notify-send in bashpodder.shell with these lines.

if [ $DESKTOP_SESSION == 'kde' ]; then
    kdialog --title="bashpodder.shell" --passivepopup "bashpodder.shell has finished downloading the podcasts." 10
elif [ $DESKTOP_SESSION == 'gnome' ]; then
    notify-send --icon="terminal" "bashpodder.shell" "bashpodder.shell has finished downloading the podcasts."
fi

It won’t work if you use GNU Screen and you start downloading in one desktop environment, and then you change to the other desktop environment while it finishes.

For example, it takes a long time to download a bunch of files and
organize those downloaded files. This program reads a table from a csv file.
Then it downloads files from the url’s in the second column and it puts the
downloaded file in the the folder in the first column. The lines starting
with an # (octothorpe) except the first line are water downed notes for
people who know don’t what the program is doing. The first line shows where
ruby is located.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# This program requires the csv library. A library is filled with
# functions, objects, classes (types of things) for the purpose of
# being re-used.
require 'csv'

# The parameters (or arguments) for the program is stored in an array (a
# list of things). This checks if the user put in the first parameter.
if ARGV[0] == nil
  # If the user didn't put in the first parameter then the script displays
  # a usage statement (how to use this program in the terminal). This
  # program exits after the usage statements is displayed.
  # $0 is the file name where the program is running from.
  puts $0 + " somefile.csv"
  exit
end

# I know this is not really necessary, but it waters things down. I know
# I can still use ARGV[0]. The first parameter should be the path to
# the CSV file. A path is the location of the file.
csv_file = ARGV[0]

# This checks if the file doesn't exist.
if !File.exist? csv_file
  # If the file doesn't exist then the program displays an error. The
  # program exits after the error (the file doesn't exist) is displayed.
  $stderr.puts csv_file + " does not exist."
  exit
end

# This program opens the file then reads one line at a time. Each line
# is a row in the table. CSV::Reader.parse is from the csv library.
CSV::Reader.parse(File.open(csv_file)) do |row|
  # The current row is stored as an array. For each row download from the
  # url in the second column and save it the folder in the the first
  # column. wget is an other program. wget is a powerful downloading
  # tool. wget is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu and many other
  # operating systems.
  `wget --directory-prefix '#{row[0]}' #{row[1]}`
end

In the “Device” section I added the following line.

Option "ATOMTvOut" "yes"

The driver setting needs to be set as “radeon” or “ati” in the Device section.

Driver "ati"

This only works with “R/RV5xx, R/RV6xx, and R/RV7xx atombios chips” according to the man page for the radeon driver.