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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Origins of Gmail Discovered
Contrary to popular belief, Gmail was actually created in 1988. That’s code by caker, one of the admins over at my favorite hosting provider, Linode. You can see all the “g-mail” code he could find. Unfortunately: there’s more, but that’s … Continue reading
LugRadio
I spent half an hour tonight finding a AAA battery to resurrect my ancient 512 MB SanDisk SDMX1 MP3 player, so I could listen to LugRadio while washing dishes. I’ve never listened before, but after seeing Jono Bacon listed as … Continue reading
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First Command to Run On Debian
(Also applies to Ubuntu if you have a SSH server installed.) sudo apt-get install denyhosts DenyHosts is a Python application that monitors SSH authentication attempts and block hosts with multiple failures. While its configuration file is easy to figure out, … Continue reading
Inline E-mail Replies
Web Worker Daily’s 7 Rules for Communicating … In E-mail are pretty good, but they miss one of my pet peeves. Separate important statements or questions into bullet points or at least their own paragraphs. This makes replying much easier. … Continue reading
Batch Converting OpenOffice.org Files
There’s a handy utility called unoconv that lets you batch/mass convert OpenOffice.org files to any format OpenOffice supports such as PDF, Word DOC, or HTML. Here’s how to use it in Linux: wget http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/unoconv-0.3.tar.bz2 tar xjf unoconv-0.3.tar.bz2 cd unoconv ./unoconv … Continue reading
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PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta
Warning: IANADBA I was just reading the release notes for PostgreSQL 8.3 beta1, and there’s quite a lot of exciting improvements coming: Full text search is now a built-in feature Support for the SQL/XML standard, including a new xml builtin … Continue reading
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