ROX Desktop - Networking

Programming in E, one year on

Thomas Leonard — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:35:03 +0000

E is a "secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language". I've been writing programs in E for a little over a year now. Here's a quick summary of the cool features I've found so far in this surprisingly overlooked little language.

Who's talking to whom?

Thomas Leonard — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:55:55 +0000

One way to understand how your system works is to look at which programs talk to other programs.
Here's a graph showing all the processes on my system and their sockets:

ROX-Samba

kerofin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:22:36 +0000

Summary:

browse Samba networks via FUSE

Current stable version:

0.0.2

Home page:

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/rox-samba.html

Primary author(s):

Stephen Watson

Zero Install URL (drag link to AddApp to install):

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/2007/interfaces/ROX-Samba

Summary:
browse Samba networks via FUSE

Current stable version:
0.0.2

Home page:
http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/rox-samba.html

Primary author(s):
Stephen Watson

Async python Socket Server using gobject

KenHayber — Mon, 07 May 2007 04:49:19 +0000

Recently I created a small command line python utility to process some stuff on a TCP socket connection. I used the standard python SocketServer class because it was dead simple to use for my purposes.

However, as the requirements of the utility grew (a GUI), I hit the main problem with SocketServers - they block - which is not so good for GUIs.

So, instead of using nasty old threading, I worked out how to use gobject.io_add_watch() to do everything in the gobject/gtk main loop. This makes it very simple to have this run in a gtk UI without needing threads.

SSHFS Mounts and AppDirs

KenHayber — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:11:27 +0000

I've been experimenting with a way to combine FUSE/SSHFS with ROX AppDirs and its support of mountpoints.

I have a hackish version now that works well enough for me. Perhaps others could suggest improvements.

Prerequisites:

ROX Filer, FUSE, SSHFS, and password-less ssh access to the remote host (see ssh-keygen and .ssh/authorized_keys).

The last part is required to keep the Filer/Desktop from hanging while waiting for a password to be entered.

Unmounting:

The standard umount command will not unmount fuse-mounted mountpoints. You need to use fusermount -u for that (or be root?). So, using the new configurable mount/umount commands in ROX-Filer 2.5, I created the following myumount command and put it in my path and set ROX-Filer to use this in place of umount.

How to browse "Windows Network"

mattn — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:03:45 +0000

Get following applications...

fusermount from http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
smbnetfs from http://smbnetfs.airm.net/

Make following rox-app.

Access FTP sites using the filer

Thomas Leonard — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:44:03 +0000

Can I access FTP sites using the filer?

Yes, if you can make them appear as part of the filesystem. Some projects
that allow this include:

NetStat

kerofin — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:16:39 +0000

Summary:

This applet displays the current network activity

Current stable version:

0.1.1

Primary author(s):

Stephen Watson

Zero Install URL (drag link to AddApp to install):

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/2005/interfaces/NetStat

Downloads:

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/netstat.html

Summary:
This applet displays the current network activity

Current stable version:
0.1.1

Primary author(s):
Stephen Watson