Archive for November, 2005

mge ellipse 1200 ups. nut how-to

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Finally I have bought an UPS. Its the MGE Pulsar Ellipse 1200. I have chosen MGE because of their support to the open source community (mge opensource). You can connect up to four standard computers to this UPS, it’s perfect for my home network.

MGE Ellipse UPS

What I want to do is to be able to shut down my computers when de charge of the UPS is below a certain level. So I have spent some time this afternoon configuring nut (network UPS tools).
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xmms song in mail’s signature

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

We need three files for this:

  • signature.txt: you should point your mail client to this one
  • signature.tpl: here is the common text to display, something like “xmms is now playing:
  • signature.sh: the script first copies the contents of the template file to the final signature file, and then adds the current song as a new line.

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