Kabouter: a gnome terminal based multi-ssh connector
Kabouter is Dutch for gnome and also a tool to connect to a range of IP addresses via ssh. It uses gnome-terminal to manage the sessions which, for me, seems more natural than some of the other 3rd party SSH applications available.
Usage is simple:
bcurtis@ronin:~$ kabouter ampli 172.19.18.65 172.19.18.96
This creates a gnome-terminal session with 32 tabs connecting to the range of SSH enabled machines. This works very well when using it with SSH Multiplexing which then gives you a way to automate remote commands through SSH without needing secure key authentication and without having to authenticate each time you want to run a command.
Download: kabouter
vNES for J2ME on your mobile
If you have ever wanted to play a NES game on your mobile, then you might have heard about vNES. There is a J2ME version which allows it to run on most mobiles available today.
There are however a few rough edges to this application as it requires assembling the necessary files together and running a windows batch file. From a Linux point of view, I have created a replacement shell script that does a better job. It requires unix2dos, rename, and bash.
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Batch file and directory rename
I needed a quick way to go through a directory and rename some files and directories to remove a specific bit from the name. By using bash’s parameter expansion feature we can accomplish that in just a few lines.
#!/bin/bash
for i in *something* ; do
echo ${i/-*[something]}
mv $i ${i/-*[something]}
done
This takes all files and directories with something somewhere in their name, and strips it out.
