Somewhere out there!

This mailing list post has a cleaner method for generating asides. See also Matt’s Asides.

I’ve been thinking about putting together a basic documentation management system with python and subversion. Some python and cron to manage business documents stored in samba/nfs file shares, auto-injecting them into a subversion repository.

This article by the CVS homedir author about Subversion homedir has some useful tips about svn:externals.

Just installed IlohaMail with apt-get. Very simple to get going. Quick change to the Apache config to match my setup and its away.

Very fast and definitely 100x easier to install than SquirrelMail.

Couple useful OO links:

• OpenOffice.org Documentation
• Andrew Pitonyak’s OpenOffice Macro Information

Recent I was asked about copying all the passwords automatically in firefox. Unfortunately I didn’t have an answer. Today I noticed this project, FireFox Save/Restore.

It says it about itself:

This is a simple program to save and restore, bookmarks, passwords, cookies and ad blocking information. The program is limited to backing up only one profile. I created this program to fill the gap left by MozBackup, since it was created just for Windows users. I also created it to provide an open version. (Uses: wxPython 2.5.3.1)

There might be some options to parse the backup, insert the password information from galeon and re-insert the information back into firefox. Exercise left for the reader.

Nice detailed howto for installing a non-intrusive X.org server on Debian into /usr/local/. This guy has a nice screenshot of window shading and transparency with X.org on a Sarge system.