Sky Songs and Linux

December 15, 2009 – 22:55

If you want to use the Sky Songs download client in Linux (say Ubuntu or Debian), just paste the following into a file called skysongs in $HOME/bin and then chmod a+x it:
cd $SKY_SONGS_DIR; /usr/bin/java -cp . -jar downloader.jar $*
Note, $SKY_SONGS_DIR should be changed to your installation directory. If you used wine to install Sky Songs, [...]

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Why does htop display an exclamation mark next to uptime?

January 14, 2009 – 11:02

I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c:

35 char daysbuf[15];
36 if (days > 100) {
37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days);
38 [...]

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