The Bash shell always amazes me. I needed to create a Maildir using the typical Maildir/cur, Maildir/new, Maildir/tmp structure and stumbled on this:
$ mkdir -m 0700 -p Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
The -m and -p options are no-brainers, but the {cur,new,tmp} was new to me. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen… one command to [...]
After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays.
After mixing a batch, and tearing up an old [...]
Looks like you can use an alternate screen name to connect to IMified via GTalk/Jabber while they work through some growing pains.
Just as I begin to rely on it, IMified is down. It was hit-and-miss for me all weekend, and completely down today. I guess that’s why it’s called beta.
This post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog got me thinking about spam. I feel Jeremy’s pain, the problem he describes is troublesome,
It used to be a rare occurrence that a message I sent didn’t make it to the intended recipient’s inbox because of some overly aggressive filtering. No more. It seems to be happening on a [...]
Today Steve Jobs takes on the controversial topic of DRM. In a post on Apple’s website, Steve Jobs provides some background on DRM and the role it plays in Apple’s ability to offer music in the iTunes Store. He concludes by offering some compelling reasons to scrap DRM.
Jobs cites figures regarding the number of iPods [...]
My site was down for most of the afternoon due to a power outage at my hosting provider. According to this post, since the outage only affected a single floor, backup generators did not come online as expected. I am not sure I understand why they couldn’t start them manually.
There’s been some discussion about whether using the non-standard innerHTML is an acceptable way to add content. Coming to the defense of the maligned property is this article at Robert Nyman’s site, co-authored by Anne van Kesteren a member of the W3C, stating,
When it comes to having greater scalability in a web page, especially in [...]
Thomas Fuchs, creator of the Script.aculo.us JavaScript effects library shows you how to create your own Ajax effects. Roll your own fabulous Web 2.0 effects using the amazing Script.aculo.us effects engine.
Rushi quickly reviews a couple of weblog clients, or “blog editors”.
