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Well I’m back at the university continuing my study. I’m particulary looking forward to my Psychology and Operating Systems courses. Let’s see how it goes.

On the other hand I installed kernel 2.6.27 on my machine and along with it the hdaps patch. Unfortunately the hdaps monitoring applet I used before no longer works because of the missing sysfs interface. Not a problem really since I just wrote a very basic script that notifies me of disk freezes using DBus notifications. It depends on ruby (obviously) and ruby-dbus. Edit the file to use your own icon and check interval.

You can of course have the icon I gimped using the gnome-laptop icon from the gnome wise icon theme by perfektska.

I will also right after finishing this blog update my gentoo forum post to represent the current status regarding hdaps and linux.

– EOF

I picked myself up and found something new to code.
Gentoo’s portage elog feature is quite nice so I began to write a little notification icon that shows me the elogs on the fly. at first I used trigger scripts. But after I digged into dbus I thought it is a better way to go. So I wrote a dbus elog plugin and use it to send elog messages to an elog dbus server(note it’s written in ruby for now). Now I can have a client (the notification icon) react on incoming elogs.
Well less talking more screenshots:

Elog Notification & Icon

The Elog Viewer

I don’t plan on putting the icon up until I have an idea about features and interface design.

Also maybe it’s possible to make a plugin or something for portato. Best would be if you could make portato intall packages or sync up when you pipe something to it like

portato install x11-libs/pango

or

portato sync

Well let’s see what this turns into (if anything).