The work on this page has been discontinued as I am currently using Exim for sending my emails and either KMail (for me) or mutt and isync (for my wife) for reading emails.
Emulating AJS and ASR styles of bibliography.
Data Ferret is
really useful for digging data from the United States Census
databases. Although, it is plain Java application (so it
works with my Linux), you need to get
.java.policy
file, which is available only
hidden in complete multi-megabyte Windows installation
program. In order to save my fellow Linux users of need to
find a friendly Windows user willing to fiddle with this
monster, I put the .java.policy
file here. It should be
copied to your $HOME
directory
.java.policy
(or appended to already existing
file; it is <dot>java<dot>policy
).
I am using KMail for all my e-mail needs and I am pretty happy with it (especially, because it is one of the few civilized MUAs supporting Disconnected IMAP and it works with KDE, which is my environment of choice).
Unfortunately, it is missing an option how to archive older messages to my rather complicated structure of directories. In the far away times of dinosaurs and giant horsetails, like a year ago, when I was using mutt for my emails (and the reason why I switched is another long story, which I do not have a time to tell just now), I created aBash script for archiving messages, which used mutt for all parsing and cutting folders. Unfortunately, the latter versions of mutt are not working well without tty (i.e., they do not work well as parts of scripts), so I had to switch to something else. I tried to rewrite the script, so that it would use formail, but it never worked well.
After reading Dive
into Python, I again got the passion for Python, and tried to rewrite
whole script using it and standard email
library. So here it is:
Mybox
,
which supports archiving from the Maildir
folder into mbox
one. I suppose that with
a lot of caution, it could be used even
for you.
Mybox
over them. I am quite
sure, that this script will not work and
it could be used only as an inspiration how to build your
own script which would fit into your particular
installation and follow your particular policies.
I know that this script is by far too simple to be published at all, there is really nothing to boast about it. I just really like it and rsync is so wonderful utility, that I wanted to share my joy with you.
This script is originally by Phil Austin (from the University of British Columbia), but I have substantially rewritten whole thing, made it more robust, shifted it towards OOP and cleaner Python. It still needs some love (formatting of the output is suboptimal), but it is very much useable.
I am very much fascinated with Bogofilter, because of its wonderful level of spam filtering and unbelievably low level of false postives (just three in the last two years!). However, I had some problems to make bfproxy work with qmail. I had to learn some Perl and to fix it. Some updates were accepted by upstream, but some were not. So this is my patched version.
This is another upgrade of program by somebody else. In this case of Aaron Schwartz's rss2email there are some fixes, which have not been accepted by Aaron yet, without which the script doesn't work for me. I really do not want to fork, so there is also a patch available against the Aaron's latest version.
Grass is a huge GIS (Geographic Information System) project originally created by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and now open source. It is a dream of all Linux fanatics coming true, because it is actually just an environment for creating scripts working with mapping informations (and of course there are hundreds of such scripts already prepared, so you get complete system for working with geographical information). Creating new scripts is so simple, that even I was able to after couple of days of learning how to work with Grass create two Python scripts usefully extending abilities of Grass in working with vector maps:
Really random bag of tips for Linux, KDE, and everything else.
I like Vorbis (OGG) files for archiving music and sound generally. I would love to use it as my default audio format for all my CD-ripping etc. Unfortunately, Windows Media Player (which is the least common denominator expected on most computers of my friends) does not support it per default. Fortunately, there is a plugin, which seems to persuade WMP to understand OGG files. No guarantees whatsoever, and no questions about this plugin will be answered.