atc » bash http://blog.beplacid.net Musings of technology, sport, life et al Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sky Songs and Linux http://blog.beplacid.net/2009/12/15/sky-songs-and-linux/ http://blog.beplacid.net/2009/12/15/sky-songs-and-linux/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:02 +0000 atc http://blog.beplacid.net/?p=104 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, have a look under /home/YOURUSERNAME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/YOURUSERNAME/Local Settings/Application Data/Sky  Songs/.

Sky Songs works by giving you “SKS” files that describe to its client (“Sky Songs MP3 Downloader“) what and how to download; i.e. your songs. Once you’ve downloaded one (say Renegades.sks; the “Renegades” album by Rage Against the Machine), just execute the skysongs script as follows:
alex@prometheus:~/Music$ skysongs Renegades.sks

Thankfully the Sky Songs download client is written in Java so it’s not only cross-platform but its structure is obvious.

Please note that these instructions are absolutely not intended for circumventing Sky’s download procedure, nor are they to be used to break the Terms of Service you’re most likely bound to by law. This information is purely for educational purposes and to assist those who are new to Linux get to grips with their everyday software in a new environment.

]]> http://blog.beplacid.net/2009/12/15/sky-songs-and-linux/feed/ 0 Why does htop display an exclamation mark next to uptime? http://blog.beplacid.net/2009/01/14/why-does-htop-display-an-exclamation-mark-next-to-uptime/ http://blog.beplacid.net/2009/01/14/why-does-htop-display-an-exclamation-mark-next-to-uptime/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:02:27 +0000 atc http://blog.beplacid.net/?p=62 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 } else if (days > 1) {
39 sprintf(daysbuf, "%d days, ", days);
40 } else if (days == 1) {
41 sprintf(daysbuf, "1 day, ");
42 } else {
43 daysbuf[0] = '\0';
44 }

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