Anyhow, I would appear to have these firefox extensions installed:

• Adblock Plus
• AutoPager
• BetterFlickr
• Better YouTube
• Delicious Bookmarks
• DownloadHelper
• Echofon
• Extended Statusbar
• Fast Video Downloader (with SearchMenu)
• Firebug
• Firefox (default)
• Firefox (en-GB)
• Flagfox
• Flashblock
• Gmail Manager
• Greasefire
• Greasemonkey
• Image Download
• Image Zoom
• Inline Code Finder for Firebug
• is.gd Creator
• JavaScript Options
• keyconfig
• Magic’s Video Downloader
• oldbar
• Password Exporter
• Save Image in Folder [sic]
• ShowIP
• SkipScreen
• TinyUrl Creator
• Ubuntu Firefox Modificiations
• URL Fixer
• VMware Remote Console Plug-In
• Xulrunner (en-GB)
• YesScript

A few of those don’t have links I can identify from the URI.

Want some code that vaguely does this for you?

#!/bin/sh
#
# ffexts:
# list firefox extensions: names and URIs for download/homepage
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Adam McGreggor. Some rights reserved.
# Email: <adam@amyl.org.uk> Web: <http://blog.amyl.org.uk>
#
# $Id: ffexts 119 2010-01-10 00:38:04Z adam $
#

# grab the interesting bits from the RDF file
for K in name homepageURL
do
# nice fix-up, eh?
grep "NS1:${K}" ${INFILE} | sed -e "s/NS1:${K}=//" \
-e 's/"//g' -e 's/>//' \
-e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort | uniq > ${OF}-${K}
# using wc here is entirely optional
wc -l ${OF}-${K}
# append
cat ${OF}-${K} >> ${OUTFILE}
done


I thought. I know what, I’ll make all of these machines use a colored prompt, and make that lot of machines use a different one.

(At this point, I should say that my dotfiles, and a variety of other things are kept in a subversion repo. Most of those bits are my-eyes-only (particularly a lot of the very badly/hastily thrown together scripts), but a few bits I’m gradually releasing.)

After mentioning this on twitter, a couple of people have been interested in how I did it.

The solution is quite easy, work out the hostname, and from that determine the ‘class’ of machine, and then apply some colors. The archwiki was useful in getting out the colors to use; along with underlining, and emboldening (I never use underlining, except in manuscript: ghastly thing that obscures text).

Whilst not perfect (the color parts could be set as a variable, and then passed to the PS1 line; I could have used “else” clauses…), it works. For me, so, erm, here’s my .bashrc — you want from the # work out machine name/domain: line.

A simple switch wotsits in screen(1), and

$ cd ~/pseudohome && svn up

followed with a

$ . .bashrc

is how I deploy (some people have an ’svn up’ in their start-up scripts, I don’t).

Comments here, if you want to.

As this blog doubles up for my memory pad, here’s the list of stuff that I’ve just installed:

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• WinSCP
• PuTTY
• Spybot
• Avast
• OpenOffice
• Pidgin
• XChat (silverx’s)
• The MS PowerToys
• Flash Player
• AIR
• Acrobat Reader
• GVim
• GIMP
• iTunes
• VLC

SP3 (given that my Windows disk is Slipstreamed with SP2)

I guess there will be more stuff to install — the MS Viewers seem likely, as will another 400Megs of patches and things…