My conkyrc

Contents (what you get out of this)
Weather, HDDtemp, UL/DL speed and cumulative meters, CPU load, Folding@Home status, Remote transmission download status (could be local, easy change), gmail status, RAM usage, Uptime, Date/Time, ToDo list

These all automatically update dependant on the execi variable.

Preface (What you need to get this all working)
Linux OS (Ubuntu?)
Conky (obv, see someone elses guide for how to get that *HINT* synaptic is ur friend)
Transmission download manager (local or remote)
Folding at home installed with origami (could be local or remote using the same logic as the Transmission manager)
Passwordless SSH authentication (if your using this with any remote hosts)
A todo list on the desktop called todo (strange that...)


WARNING I'm lazy so im not telling you why or how this all works. Work it out yourself. I Got alot of the system monitoring stuff from a variety of places (lifehacker i think, my apologies to whoever i stole from).


The Guts (The Guts)
cat .conkyrc
use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment top_left
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
text_buffer_size 512
color1 F8DF58


# ${color 6694B2}${font OpenLogos:size=45} u t

# ${color F8DF58}${font StyleBats:size=16}8${font} Battery: ${battery_percent}% ${battery_bar}
TEXT
${color BADCDD}${font weather:size=82}${execi 600 ~/scripts/conditions.sh}${color}${font}${voffset -25} ${execi 1200 ~/scripts/pogodynka.sh}
${font weather:size=28}x ${font}HDD ${execi 1 ~/scripts/hddmonit.sh}�C
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}v${font} Up: ${upspeed eth1} Kb/s
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}r${font} Down: ${downspeed eth1} Kb/s
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}M${font} Upload: ${totalup eth1}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}S${font} Download: ${totaldown eth1}
${color ffffff}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font} CPU0: ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font} CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
${font StyleBats:size=16}Y${font} ${execi 10 origami monitor | awk '/Progress:/ {print $2}' | sed '/%$/N;s/\n/ /' }
${execi 600 ssh REMOTEUSER@REMOTEHOST /opt/bin/transmission-remote -l |sed 's/ [ ]*/\t/g'| awk -F'\t' '/ing/ {print $3,"\t", $9}'| sort -rn}
${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=16}@${font}${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser.py GMAILUSER GMAILPASSWORD 3}
${color C2E078}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}J${font} $mem / $memmax
${font StyleBats:size=18}P${font} Work: ${uptime_short}
${font Radio Space:size=14}${time %A %d %Y}
${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %H:%M}
${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=10}${color0}TODO:${color1}
${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=10}${execi 30 cat /home/USERNAME/Desktop/todo}

Getting Skype to work with weird webcams.

I'll keep this as informative.
If your webcam works in ubuntu (I'm running the 8.10 RC atm, fantastic btw) under cheese but not with skype, I did a bit of digging and cheese uses v4l2 (the 'new' webcam api) which inherently screws up skype that uses v4l1.

So, its easy enough since i came across this post and after chasing up my own system locations (this guy must be on 64bit, but i didnt ask) dead easy, instead of in the terminal going
# skype
look in your library directories (/usr/lib/ or /usr/lib32/) for v4l1compat.so,
# LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/v4l1compat.so skype
this, obv, preloads that library forcing skype to use teh right interface library.

If my explanation is wrong please correct me

Links

As Other Folks have been going in a GTD fashion, I'll be throwing useful websites and links into this post so my sievelike menory can cope with the multitude of things that come to my attention.

LectureFox Free Online Lecture Directory
MyBook Hacking Easy Peasy List Of Tutorials For Screwing with the WD My Book WE II
13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare on the Web
Best Passwordless SSH authentication tutorial I've seen (complex but simple)
Google Courses Looks pretty good
SSH quick reference
The Academy The Videos look quite good
Euler