Monthly Archives: September 2009

Rackspace Cloud Files helper scripts

Posted on 24 September, 2009 by chmouel

Since working a lot with Rackspace Cloud Files I have put some quick scripts using the python-cloudfiles API to do some ls rm and cp of containers or objects.. It’s really a collection of quickly written stuff put in the … Continue reading →

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Emacs transparency with mouse wheel

Posted on 16 September, 2009 by chmouel

Emacs is playing fancy on the latest version (since emacs 23) it has now support for transparency at least on Linux when you have a composited Windows Manager. As explained on the Emacs wiki here everything is controlled by this … Continue reading →

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rsync like backup to Rackspace Cloud File with duplicity

Posted on 2 September, 2009 by chmouel

It seems that there is no much documentation about how to do rsync like backup with duplicty so here it is : Install python-cloudfiles from here http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles Install duplicity, its available directly from Debian or alike distros (ie: ubuntu) or … Continue reading →

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Upload to Rackspace Cloud files from GNOME nautilus

Posted on 2 September, 2009 by chmouel

After seeing this script http://overhrd.com/?p=106 which allow to upload files with the file manager (finder) of MacosX to Rackspace Cloud Files, I have made a nautilus script that doe the same for us Gnome/Unix users. Available here : http://github.com/chmouel/nautilus-rackspace-cloud-file/tree/master

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