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Monthly Archives May 2004

eyebrow thief

This amuses me way, way more than it should: Return of the eyebrow thief!

Posted 25 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

Mail::Audit

I’m what you might call a heavy procmail user. My procmailrc spans about
700 lines in six files, plus three or four additional programs to
reformat and handle messages along the way.

I’m currently in the process of moving to Dreamhost, though, and there’s one
mail problem there that I had to work around: they don’t support
plus addressing (where [...]

Posted 21 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

Great, thanks for clearing that up.

Posted 19 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) °

I guess you didn’t want my mail, then.

From a local ISP; I’m sure this seemed like a great idea at the time.

220 mx2.avalonworks.net ESMTP Postfix
helo hostname-of-internal-mailserver.mati.ca
250 mx2.avalonworks.net
mail from:<rich@mati.ca>
250 Ok
rcpt to:<test@igs.net>
554 <hostname-of-internal-mailserver.mati.ca>: Helo command rejected: Host not found

Er, sorry, what failed? I guess it forgot to tell me way back
then. I thought for a minute that it waited until RCPT to be able [...]

Posted 17 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

pcAnywhere usecrime

Pictured is a section of the toolbar in
pcAnywhere, the Windows remote-control application. The buttons, left to
right, are:

Send ctrl-alt-delete
Reboot remote system
Disconnect pcAnywhere

Hm! One of these things is not like the others…

Since you have to click the left one to login to Windows when you first
connect to the remote system, and the right one when you are [...]

Posted 14 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) °

Web screenshots!

A long time ago I came across Sippey’s blogsnaps, and
noted it as something which would be good to automate. Earlier
today Brad posted a quick way to take a
screenshot of a webpage, and it was pretty straightforward to
expand it in

The result is webshot, which requires ImageMagick and
Xvnc. If someone has a better idea how to do [...]

Posted 13 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

Trackback schadenfreude

A new version of the Movable Type weblog software was
released today, with what appears to be a pretty drastic licensing
change which hasn’t gone over well with a lot of midsize users.
Basically, MT is now commercial software for any sites running more
than three weblogs, or with more than one author, which seems to be
a lot of [...]

Posted 13 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

Canadian web hosting?

I need web hosting. A bunch of people have recommended Dreamhost, and I’m this close
–>||<– to signing up for their $US 20/mo package there. Before I
do, though, I want to make sure I’m not missing out on a reliable
Canadian alternative.

For $US 20 per month, Dreamhost offers:

40 GB/mo transfer (close to what I need)
1.6GB local storage [...]

Posted 10 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °