Monthly Archives August 2007

Using imapfilter to do forced white list for spambayes

Well I’m using spambayes to do spam filter work, and it does do its work well: It will only move the mails it’s sure are spams to the spam folder, and the mails it’s sure are not spam to the non-spam folder. And something in between to the unsure folder.
For me […]

The new Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

Well, together with the LX5 my wife also get me a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. There’s nothing wrong with my old Dell keyboad and/or the BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard. It is my wrist. With more and more typing, I began to feel the pain of RSI so I decided to give this famous […]

Logitech LX5 on FreeBSD

Last weekend my wife get me a LX5 and I really like it.
Seeing my old mouse going to its EOL and I was looking for a new one. I don’t need those funny functions cause I’m a heavy keyboard user. And with FreeBSD being my desktop all those funny keys will be useless. And my […]

Tiling Window Management with Fvwm

 
Contents

Why
The target
What we need
Yeal, show me the code!

 
Why
If you have 10+ GUI applications running and spend lots of time
dragging them to the right place, you need a tiling window manager.
On contrary to most modern window systems, which allow you to put one
window on top of another, and mess up your work space, a tiling window
manager […]

svn: make the branches directory before make a branch

Well, this is a short note to myself so the next time I want to create a branch of a new project, I won’t need to search through the Internet.
Before doing
$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch \
-m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."
to make a new branch of a new project (which don’t have any branches […]

an introduction to openssh part 5 — config files

Well the ultimate way to tweak a program (besides modify the source)
is to edit the configure file. This is what we are gonna talk about in
this part.
There are two kind of config file for OpenSSH: for the server side and
for the client side.
- For the server side
The server side configure file is usually /etc/ssh/sshd_config. No
matter […]

Firefox: view source in your favorite editor

There is a nice tip about how to change the default source viewer to your favorite editor on http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com. And if you want to keep the default view, but use your favorite editor in another time, you are not along:
Just go and get the web developer plugin. And go to options->options in the […]

Use Pretty Permalinks on Lighttpd

 Well on the WordPress site they said the Pretty Permalinks like
/category/title is only available on Apache. Well this is definitely
not true as long as you know your web server.
Here is how I made it with Lighttpd, and some tips to keep my original
rss link.
My original rss link is http://dryice.name/blog/index.rss. The new rss
link is http://dryice.name/blog/rss/. And […]

an introduction to openssh part 4 — SSH on Windows

It is ideal if we can live in a Unix only world. However sometimes we’ll need MS windows. In this part we’ll talk about using OpenSSH, or SSH in general, on MS Windows platform. On the OpenSSH Alternatives for Windows page, there is a list of available free/open source software. We’ll talk about the two […]

Migrating from pyblosxom to WordPress

Well in times of switching blog system, one BIG challenge is to save all the old posts and comments. Fortunately (or not?) for me is that I didn’t get too much comments before. So the only thing I need to worry about is the posts.
At first I found a perl script to migrate from blosxom […]

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