Archive for September, 2009

Rackspace Cloud Files helper scripts

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 same file
but at least if not useful for you it would give you an idea how the
python-cloudfiles [...]

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Emacs transparency with mouse wheel

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 frame parameter like this :

(set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) ‘alpha ‘(85 50))

I have automated the thing to allow [...]

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rsync like backup to Rackspace Cloud File with duplicity

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 you can do that from source from the homepage.
Get your API Key from https://manage.rackspacecloud.com/ and use a script [...]

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Upload to Rackspace Cloud files from GNOME nautilus

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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