So I don’t know if many of you knew but about a month and a half ago my website was completely copied by these guys - Quinetetdesigns.com. I tweeted about it and contacted the css gallery they were posted. They removed then and put mine up instead. Then within a hour or so they replaced their website with what is there now. I was glad that was over and happy they took their copy down. This morning I got into work and had an email from a reader of my site. He informed me that this now exists - Ashifnawaz.com. This Ashif is even worse then my first copy cat. He has copied everything, even my copy. He just took my name out and put his in. Other than a section about riding elephants and a lava lamp navigation everything is copied. I think he has the elephant thing commented out though. Whois.net tells me he is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The other place was from India. Just makes me sick. One, they take work from the US because they work for uber cheep and then on top of that they copy our design, code, and ideas as well. I know that all the people over there aren’t like this but so far my opinion of then isn’t very high. Any thought about what I should do about this copy cat? I do have his email and phone number.
In my previous post I talked about what I have been doing to my desktop the last little while. I had quite a few email or IM me asking about how the GeekTool scripts I used. Just take these scripts and copy the lines you want into the command area of a Geeklet. Most of these were written by Mac Newbold. Enjoy!
CPU Usage
top -n1 -l1 | grep "Load Avg" | sed 's/.*usage: //; s/ user.*//;'
top -n1 -l1 | grep "Load Avg" | sed 's/.*user, //; s/ sys.*//;'
top -n1 -l1 | grep "Load Avg" | sed 's/.*sys, //; s/ idle.*//;'
Memory
top -n 1 -l 1 | grep PhysMem | sed 's/.* inactive, //; s/ used.*//;'
top -n 1 -l 1 | grep PhysMem | sed 's/.* used, //; s/ free.*//;'
Month
date +%B
Date
date +%d
Day
date +%A
Time
date +%I:%M
AM / PM
date +%p
Weather
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USUT0078&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'
Look for the ‘UT0078′ here and replace it with the city code you want to display. Get the city code by going to Yahoo Weather and searching for your city. Once found look in the url and you will see your city code at the end of the url.
Weather Image
Create a new Shell Geeklet and use this as the command:
curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USUT0078.html" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather1.png\
Replace the city code with your city code. ( same steps to get city code as above )
Then create a new Image Geeklet and use this as the url:
file:///tmp/weather1.png
