well, this is an extremely geeky topic, but as of today qmail is in the public domain.

the e-mail server i run at c0redump.org (hosted by geekisp) is qmail, and i've played around with it quite a bit. the source code is something of a treasure, as it is written in a manner unlike nearly anything else out there. this is both good and bad, but ( Read more... )

i have a 12" powerbook g4 with a busted hard drive. apple tells me it will cost $250 or so to repair ( Read more... )

[this entry is for those of us that work on unix(-like) systems all day]

based on a f-locked entry from chrisamaphone, which in part reads:

sadly, my shell does not interpret when i mistype "pine" as "pie" to mean that it should bake me a pie. where is my pie? >:(which caused me to think, what are your typo aliases? those aliases that exist because you ( Read more... )

[this is an update to the post about my lisp interpreter]


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after my recent entry on publishing a lisp interpreter, two_pi_r and i were talking over im. he told me he liked my use of "down seems more likely" to indicate fall through in my switch statements. i use fall through a *lot* programming in c, so i've picked up the habit of commenting my intent whenever i use it:it is generally considered good practice to ( Read more... )

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[i'm coming down for movie night this friday. is there a movie night this friday?]

due to, err, popular demand--here is a description of the set of scripts i put together over the weekend. these scripts are wrappers around a program called devtodo. they adapt the program to work with the getting things done methodology (hereafter gtd), which is ( Read more... )

i took yesterday off, and i'm still feeling under the weather today. but, i missed riding my bike; and if i take too many days off in a row, i might now want to come back to work at all, heh ( Read more... )

on friday, when i was standing in line to see rollins, i was nominated to hold all the wallets, keys, etc of everyone in the group. given that i was carrying my man purse, this wasn't a problem ( Read more... )