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Who has never dreamed of having cat, ls, wget... on Windows shell??? The fu**ing dir command which is so bad and piss you off every time you need to use it...

Well today I found something new (Thanks PyS60 again).

• Go to UnxUtils project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils then download and unzip UnxUtils.zip
• I copied the UnxUtils directory under C: like C:\UnxUtils>
• Now we need to give the path to the environment variables for it to be seen
• Windows_Key + Pause take you to System properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
• New System variable
  • name: UNXUILS_HOME
  • value: C:\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin
• Now we add UNXUILS_HOME to PATH (add at the end %UNXUILS_HOME%;)
• Ok

That's it! A quick test:

• Open a new command prompt Windows_Key + R > cmd
• C:\>ls -la

OAMK web magazine made an article about my story in Finland and my work with PyS60. Here's the link (in English :) ):
http://www.oamk.fi/ullakko/artikkelit/international/13/

I started to be worried cause I could compile with GCC. So

apt-get install gcc libc6-dev

Guys!

Today I'm getting very pissed off with the building company where I'm living which clearly does everything to cut on budget for our crappy student buildings. So since a week we don't have any heating in the rooms anymore and it is between 2 - 5 degrees outside during the day, I don't know at night.

Since we don't have to pay for electricity and that I have 4 desktop machines + one laptop I came out with a solution for heating my room: the boolean heater :)

The idea is quite simple: keep your processor(s) busy in order to create some heat from the extraction fans!

Current development

Create a roomheater.py file. Here is the source :D

#!/usr/bin/env python
# file: roomheater.py
# author: LEFEVRE Damien
# version: 0.1
# description: boolean room heater
# Copyrights 2006-2007 LEFEVRE Damien
print """********************************************************************************
                           Welcome to the boolean room heater
                                              by:
                                   LEFEVRE Damien
********************************************************************************
"""
while 1: pass

And then run:

>>>python romheater.py

Voila! :D

I get the following results:

• PIII: processor 100% in use
• Sempron 2600: processor 100% in use (very good heater!)
• Core 2 Duo: processor 50% in use (so I can still work)

I just hope you'll be able to stand the noise ;)

Future development

Hard disks are producing a very good quantity of heat. Once I find a dummy task to perform on disks that would create heat, I'll add it right away to the application ;)

With my best regards,

Damien

Here comes a tutorial for my little brother :D He wants to install Debian on his laptop and I'm very proud of that! Still that might help another newbie so go deeper if you need help!

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All my PyS60 work is in a separated site. Please visit http://www.lfdm.net/thesis

Since I discover the quality of the documents generated with LaTeX, I start to put my nose everywhere to redefine the tools I've been using so far or let say to say goodbye the academic Microsoft office brain washing I've had since I start to study...

So bye bye Powerpoint, welcome to beamer!

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