Change pidgin status from the command line

$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn’t aware of purple-remote existence.

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Remote X applications on local display in Fedora 11 (leonidas).

I wanted to open some X applications on my Fedora 11 local display over the ssh connections. I have used this in the previous versions of the Fedora and was looking to do the same in F11. Here are the things that can be done to enable this :

Allow tcp connections to X server by removing -nolisten in the X server. Set the following parameter in the gdm.conf

DisallowTCP=false

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Managing your remote site locally – sitecopy.

If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until recently when I discovered <a href="http://http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/" target="_blank">sitecopy.

Description of sitecopy:

sitecopy allows you to easily maintain remote Web sites.  The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. sitecopy will also optionally try to spot files you move locally, and move them remotely.  FTP and WebDAV servers are supported.

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