Installing "Glances" system monitor on ubuntu 12.04

Glances is a curses based tool for monitoring your system - kind of like top on steroids. There is a small issue with using the version in the PPA on Ubuntu 12.04 (specifically the 12.04.2 minimal install); it crashes on startup with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/glances", line 5, in
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

To fix it I manually had to install the package python-pkg-resources.

What I Am Reading

Its been a while since my last update, so here is what I have been keeping busy with lately.

I am pleased to present to you the latest update to the Hubii user interface. We have completely redone the presentation of articles, and I must say I am very satisfied with the result.

Have a look, this is how I am keeping up to date with whats happening around the world:

Looking at news from Norway

The new presentation of articles is also carried over to the "Mapazine".

To see for yourself head over to Hubii.com, and please use the "Feedback" button if you have some comments!

Item Assistant Identify View

More updates to AOIA.

I have added a new view that lets you quickly locate items in your inventory that are convertable into a different item type.

In the list on the left you choose the target item, while on the right it will determine the un-converted items you have that match your selection and where they are located.

The list of items that are convertable and what they convert into, is manually entered by the developers into the database. There is currently no way for me to extract all tradeskill processes (I don't even know if they exist in the AO database at all or only exists serverside? Anyone?)

Dimension Support in Item Assistant

Work on AOIA never stands still.

Here is a small screenshot showing the new dimension support in the inventory character tree-view. RK1-Rk3 are added as default, while the "Unknown Dimension" contains characters you haven't logged in with the new version of AOIA yet. When you log in a toon its dimension is automatically detected.

More work remains though, as the find-panel, pattern-matcher and identify view all need to be able to restrict data retrieval to a single dimension.