Daniel Rodrigues's questions

I'm toying around with binary code and ciphers and I've a chunk of text which I would like to reorganise in 8-character lines (those familiar with the topic will understand why). See:

010000100110010100100000011100110111010101110010011001
010010000001110100011011110010000001100100011100100110
100101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010101
110010001000000100111101110110011000010110110001110100
01101001011011100110010100101110

I'm sure I must use cut, split, grep, sort or maybe a combination of these (and/or others), and I've made some tries with all these, but without any success.

I could easily do this manually, but this's what computers were made for, back in the World War II days :)

Ratings & Reviews hit Natty yesterday, and I can confirm they're working pretty well. The process is pretty much painless, the interface is straightforward and even server-side, it looks like its working pretty well.

My question is, are we going to see Ratings & Reviews cherrypicked from Natty and backported to Maverick's Software Center?

Some months ago, on the road to Ubuntu Maverick, a new system indicator, network (with connman as a backend), started to be developed. The plan was to get it into UNE and release it with no notifcation area. Unfortunately it didn't make it into the final version. However, continued efforts are still being made to improve it, and I'm getting regular updates.

From a blueprint from the last UDS, I read that the plan was to ship no notification area and only indicators. For that, it was defined that nm-applet (backend: NetworkManager) should be ported to the appindicator library.

Today I discovered that those efforts are going on and a initial version is available for testing, available from Matt Trudel PPA (Natty only).

So, my questions is, to whoever has the necessary info: wouldn't it be easier to join efforts and concentrate the work in just one version (probably NetworkManager backend, as that's the official plan), instead of breaking those efforts apart and hampering both testing and developing? Both indicators are being developed by Canonical engineers, and that really doesn't make much sense.

So, any Canonical engineer willing to clarify this?

I want to use the Dictionary app (Applications>Office>Dictionary) bundled with Ubuntu in my own language, Portuguese (Portugal).

In the application preferences I've the option to add alternative dictionaries, but I've to get trough all sort of complicated and not user-friendly at all definitions.

In the Add Dictionary windows, I've a tab that should have the list of available dictionaries, but even after refreshing it only shows blank.

So, is there an easy way to add an alternative language (in my case, PT-pt) to the Dictionary application?

Fact: Please don't suggest alternative programas. I really want to use the default application.

This question pretends to be a central place where people share info about compiling the latest and greatest GNOME-Shell environment in Ubuntu 10.10.

As GNOME-Shell now depends on gtk3 and in a lot of other new modules, and the GNOME-hell PPA is no longer around, it's actually quite difficult to test it without, as I've read somewhere,

"compiling half of the GNOME desktop"

I've tried with jhbuild just yesterday and only some modules were built, but gnome-shell and gtk3 weren't included in those that built.

As some solutions posted here may seem get quite dangerous, I was thinking about setting up a VM w/ Ubuntu 10.10, and I think that most of you will agree with me.

So, in conclusion, questions that need to be answered:

1. Is there any new GNOME-Shell PPA for Maverick?

2. Can jhbuild gnome-shell install script be fixed in order to allow a clean build?

3. If not, any other easy ways to get it, excluding manual compilling?

4. When installed, will GNOME-Shell work with Virtualbox emulated graphics stack?

Ladies and gentleman, the question is now yours. Let the answering begin...

I'm creating a simple bash script and I want to create a select menu in it, like this:

$./script

echo "Choose your option:"

1) Option 1  
2) Option 2  
3) Option 3  
4) Quit  

And according to user's choice, I want different actions to be executed. I'm a bash shell scripting noob, I've searched the web for some answers, but got nothing really concrete.