On slow days, I’ll poke around the kernel, sched.c, page_alloc.c, etc., and it very much feels like I’m peering in on a living thing. I can see the code steering the execution, the logic funneling the energy of the program, and even though I’m not a kernel hacker, I can almost get the gist of what [...]
There are some applications which need to send notifications to users. Ubuntu 9.04 has new on-screen-display notification agent called Notify OSD which implmeents freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification with semi-transparent click-through bubbles. This post is not about Notify OSD, but about how you can use libnotify to send notifications in you shell scripts, C programs and [...]
