Archive for November, 2005

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 05:30 | 0 comments
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"curl and wget":http://blog.fupps.com/2005/11/27/backup-your-delicious-bookmarks/ are excellent tools for grabbing the source of a web page or a resource there-on, but if you just want the page's plain text without any HTML or other formatting, I recommend "lynx":http://lynx.browser.org/ which runs on a mulitude of platforms.
lynx -dump http://example.com dumps the formatted output of the specified URL(Uniform Resource Location) [...]

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 at 15:37 | 1 comment
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"O3 magazine":http://www.o3magazine.com/ is a monthly journal published exclusively in PDF(Portable Document Format).
The focus of O3 is on the use of Free and Open Source software in Enterprise Data Networking environments
The premiere issue is quite interesting; get "issue #1":http://www.o3magazine.com/current.html and be alerted to new issues via the "subscription feed":http://ftp2.o3magazine.com/rss/o3.rss

Monday, November 28th, 2005 at 22:25 | 0 comments
Categories: Books
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I was sent a small CSV(Comma Separated Value) file which I viewed (right-click, view) within Lotus Notes 6.5.4. Since the value in the last column of the last row was missing, I contacted the sender and informed him about it. After fighting it out for a bit, he conviced me the file was complete. I [...]

Monday, November 28th, 2005 at 19:00 | 0 comments
Categories: DomiNotes
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I've decided to cut down a bit on telecommunication costs and have ordered an "Arcor":http://www.arcor.de ISDN(Integrated Services Digital Network) with a telephony flatrate and ADSL package, the latter with 6 Megabit downstream including flat rate. So, even though I'll have a six-fold bandwidth on Internet connectivity, I'll be saving money.

Monday, November 28th, 2005 at 17:25 | 0 comments
Categories: Hardware, Home
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Monday, November 28th, 2005 at 14:03 | 0 comments
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I don't use "sendmail":http://www.sendmail.org any more on my servers, preferring to use "Exim":http://www.exim.org. When I did last use _sendmail_, I also did mail routing via LDAP, and I wish I'd had access to the "Sys Admin":http://www.samag.com article "Routing and Alias Management with OpenLDAP and Sendmail":http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9936/sam0601a/ at the time. Worth a look.

Sunday, November 27th, 2005 at 19:40 | 0 comments
Categories: LDAP, Mail
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This is the kind of "software" patch I love:
A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string.
"via":http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27930

Sunday, November 27th, 2005 at 19:33 | 0 comments
Categories: Hardware
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