Simple but very flexible and usefull terminal encoding converter

#!/usr/bin/jruby

require "java"

def help
        p "cnvrt  <...>"
end


if (ARGV.size > 0)
        begin
                charset = java.nio.charset.Charset.for_name ARGV[0]
                ARGV.delete_at 0
                ARGV.each {|a|
                        bytes = java.lang.String.new(a).getBytes
                        buffer = java.nio.ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes)
                        puts charset.decode(buffer)
                }
        rescue
                p $!
        end
else
        help
end

Rapidshare terminal downloader for linux

rapiddownloader - is a small rapidshare console utility for linux written in JRuby. What it can do - is to handle multiple links and wait for timing in free account. So you can just leave it with a bunch of urls and be busy with your stuff.

Usage is quite simple:

rapiddownloader.rb {site1} {site2} {site3}

Just place it in your $PATH location, make it executable and thats it.
Depends on JRuby, Java and Wget

Google Site

I have made my google site where i plan to upload my dotfiles and utilities.
Here is the link

Adobe Flex Builder Alpha is available for Linux

I am very happy that it is already possible (seems like it is available already for a long time - but somehow I couldn't find it before):

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flexbuilder_linux.html

But note that eclipse 3.3.x is required

P.S.
1/ workaround: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FBE-306?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

2/ there is a patch - but probably for the eariler version:
(Some details about mxml editor and eclipse 3.4: http://www.tekool.net/blog/2008/06/28/flex-builder-3-plugin-dont-work-with-eclipse-34/ )

my small last.fm script

it's a pity that lastfm is not going to be free anymore but still... here is my small script that i usually use to listen to last.fm:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# shell-fm helper
#* lastfm://user/${user}/loved
#* lastfm://user/${user}/personal
#* lastfm://usertags/${user}/${usertag}
#* lastfm://artist/${artist}/similarartists
#* lastfm://artist/${artist}/fans
#* lastfm://globaltags/${globaltag}
killall -9 shell-fm

function usage() {
 printf "Usage: %s: [-u username] [[-p(ersonal)] [-l(oved)]] [-g globaltag] [-a artist]\n" $(basename $0) >&2
}

 command="lastfm:/"
 artflag=
 while getopts 'u:plg:a' OPTION

 do
   case $OPTION in
   u) command="$command/user/$OPTARG"
   ;;
   l)    command="$command/loved"
  break
   ;;
   p)  command="$command/personal"
  break
   ;;
   a) artflag=1
  command="$command/artist/$artist"
  break
   ;;
   ?)  usage
   exit 2
   ;;
   esac
 done
 

 #printf "Remaining arguments are: %s\n" "$*"

shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
rest=""
if [ $artflag ] 
then
     while [ $# -ge 1 ]; do
         if [ "$rest" != "" ]; then
             rest="$rest+"
         fi
        rest="$rest${1}"
        shift
     done
fi

shell-fm -d $command$rest

(In order to use you need to install also a small "shell-fm" application.)

and now awesome ...

here it is:

Youtube feature

Have found a new feature in youtube - adding the following parameter to the url will improve the quality of music (and probably video as well):

&fmt=18 

Didn't play that much and don't know if it works for all the videos - probably not.