After struggling all morning to find or compile a mail notification applet that supports TLS encryption under Ubuntu, I finally read all the way to the end of the Launchpad bug for mail-notifier (all 119 comments) and found David Jurenka's time-saving PPA with SSL support enabled. Thanks David!
I use Java a lot, and the common practice of naming java packages with long URI-derived namespaces often leads to my bash prompt becoming extremely long. Here's a script to display an abbreviated path on the bash prompt.
Hopefully I'm now signed up to the mailing list, so I'll get the updates out as they arrive, rather than when someone points them out to me (thanks to Bitorb BTW!)
I've released a new version of Javada today - just a maintenance fix, after an email request for a pre-compiled version. It's available for download from:
