Diary of an Emacs tragic

Category: General

  • stuffit expander is shit

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    Helmar has blogged about how evil and crap and shit stuffit expander is and I would just like to second his opinion. Hear Hear Helmar. I’m with you brother!

  • lookup smb windows hostnames from the command prompt in linux

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    There is this cool way of being able to lookup windows hostnames in linux. Ie so you can ping mywindowshostname and it will just find the ip and ping it. All you have to do is edit the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf: from hosts: files dns to hosts: files dns wins and install the winbind service.…

  • thegromdden

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    Mark has gotten himself a blog.

  • More on the antenna

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    I was fiddling around wondering how on earth I was going to build myself a notch filter to filter out or reduce the signal strength on ABC when I discovered something miraculous. If I unplug the antenna from the DVB cards, just leaving the patch lead, and plug in the attenuator I bought from Jaycar,…

  • MythTV reception woes

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    So we finaly decided to go the Mythtv route. I bought an AMD Sempron based computer to use as the server and the front end. I used very standard components which I researched to ensure they would all work with linux, and after a few teething troubles due to a stupid supplier who couldn’t even…

  • Health benefits of chocolate

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    While researching chocolate, I came across a few articles about the health benefits of chocolate. It turns out that it may lower blood pressure, and it might also be good at stopping persistant coughs.

  • searching for selected text in Thunderbird

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    Jason
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    I found I often want to search for text in emails. I found this nice little plugin called conquery that lets you do many things among which is search google for the selected text. Works beautifuly.

  • The Blues Story

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    First episode of the blues story. Enjoy

  • Amazon Wishlist

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    I have created a wishlist of books I want on Amazon. Not that I want them from Amazon, just that its a good way of making a list of books that I want. I mainly did this so my fans have a way of buying me something if they feel so inclinded. No, actually I…

  • Anzac Day post

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    Well, here I am at the end of a long weekend, the Anzac long weekend to be more accurate. we did a number of things this weekend. Probably the highlight was seeing The Cat Empire. I had heard of them before and Maissa saw them at Womad a few years ago and had been raving…