Thursday, July 14, 2005

del.icio.us "remember this" popup

del.icio.us has an experimental "remember me" bookmarklet that pops up instead of showing in-page. The advantage is that you can flip back and forth between the page you're bookmarking and the del.icio.us dialog. The only downside I've seen so far is that the post does not occur immediately (and sometimes not at all :-). To try this out, add this bookmark by hand and replace ACCOUNTNAME with your del.icio.us account name:
remember this (popup)
In Mozilla Firefox, you can simply drag the above link to your Bookmarks Toolbar. You may also have to have to increase the height if you have a lot of tags in order to avoid the scroll bar.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Burning CD in Linux

First determine what devices are available:
  • cdrecord -scanbus
Then use this cdrecord command line arguments:
  • cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnproof -dao -eject DATAFILE.iso
    • leaving out the -speed=X argument will cause cdrecord to query the CD blank for its purported speed
    • -dao option makes it possible to MD5 the result with md5sum -b /dev/cdrom
    • -eject argument will pop the disk. Insert it, unmount if it automounts, and run md5sum
More details at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/burn_iso_images.html

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

del.icio.us on your website

The easiest way to put your del.icio.us links on your web site is via RSS Digest.