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Pushup ? browser update notifier

August 13th, 2008 | development, itunes, www | 1 Comment


Every developer out there is sick to death of the mostrosity that is IE6. As part of a movement to “push” users up from out-dated browsers, pushup is a little script to automatically notify those users and provide them with a link to update their browser.

If you’ve visited this site on an older browser (extremely few do), you would aready have received a notification for this ;)

Now playing with screen+irssi over ssh

November 23rd, 2007 | irc, itunes | 9 Comments

Some people like using irssi, others again like using it over ssh. When combined with screen, this gives you a persistent IRC client that stays online even when you’re not connected to your shell account.

While this is great, it does come with some caveats. Irssi can’t access anything on your local machine, so status scripts, like what you are currently listening to, are out. In steps Brandon Fullers Now Playing plugin for iTunes. The software itself isn’t great, you can only transmit the song details over FTP, but it does work. The problem here is that I don’t have FTP on the same box as irssi. Here’s my solution: Read the rest of this entry

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