sendmail AAAA woe

Thursday, 11. 3. 2005  –  Category: all, sw

In the normal run of things, the moment I want a host’s involvment with mail to be anything more complicated than just sending it I replace sendmail with exim. Today’s struggle revealed that even setting a ‘smarthost’ (what everyone else calls ‘relays’) can be too complicated. Not entirely sendmail’s fault though, a Win2k server is […]

stash: fixup DOS line termination

Wednesday, 10. 26. 2005  –  Category: all, stash

Inevitable evil: developer drops off a load of content with DOS line endings, flutzing up editor screens with ^M. $ find /some/path -type f -exec perl -pi -e'y/\015//d;' \{\} \; It’d be nicer to used xargs(1) instead of find(1)’s own -exec flag – way more efficient. However, chances are that if there’s borked line endings […]

air mass

Wednesday, 10. 26. 2005  –  Category: all, vague

The turbo on my VW Golf 1.9Tdi had become disappointingly non-functional. I could hear the exciting whizzing from the device as it spun up, but there was no boost. For a heavy car like a mark 4 Golf, this makes driving a pain, both around town and on long motorway inclines. Getting the garage (who […]

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