Author Archives: bill
Fortune cookie?
Follow the Path of Emacs, grasshopper, and you shall go far. Venture not down the false road of ‘vi’ and shun the evil ‘notepad.exe’
IDE gadgets for your toolbox
Just found these at WiredCo. (No, I don’t work for them, I’m just a fan.) First off, this puppy will plug into a USB port and give you a SATA, or eSATA, connection… no need to cart around even a … Continue reading
Editing PHP in Emacs – Debian, Ubuntu package
If it’s not already installed, for php-mode you can simply: # aptitude install php-elisp
Commands on selected files in a tree
For example, I needed to add the group execute (list directory) bit to every subdirectory in the tree below the currrent directory. Most of the simple ways get tripped up by filename quoting, or embedded spaces in directory names. Here’s … Continue reading
ABLEConf 2009
Free. Saturday, October 24, 2009… 10am to 4pm at the University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix (Baseline Rd. just west of I-10). A full day of presentations and participation on free software. More info: http://www.ableconf.com/ Update: A good time and … Continue reading
Notes on Text File Handling
For printing multiple pages, mpage comes in handy. It produces 2-up or 4-up Postscript from plain text files. (Debian package: mpage) Curiously, “mpage –help” or any of the standard pleas for help don’t work; use: mpage -x Example use: mpage … Continue reading
Share Thunderbird Address book via LDAP
If you like this, please consider donating to fund further development. After years of frustration waiting for the Mozilla Thunderbird folks to add the ability to edit LDAP address-books, and years of frustration with the pigheadedness and brain-damagedness of LDAP … Continue reading
Mailman membership reminder
Here’s a little script you can add to your crontab, to periodically email the administrators of each mailman mailing list both the list of current members and the mailing-list’s full configuration. This gives you both an audit trail of membership … Continue reading
Bug, resolution, and patch to Net::LDAP::Server
Dear Mr. Ranellucci, I am writing an LDAP server using this module and have found that Evolution — at least version 2.26.1 on Ubuntu — transmits an abandonRequest after each searchRequest. Because there is no defined return value for an … Continue reading
What’s a blog?
Blogging is where you write an article or two every day, and it really does have to be at least one a day, about an issue. Usually blogs attempt to develop a community of readers, all of whom get to … Continue reading →