Linux.com runs a good introduction to spamd, the spam fighting daemon which ships by default with OpenBSD.
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X11: Exporting a display
How can I make my X11 display go to another machine ?
Oh well, something everyone should know, but sometimes you have surprises !
Instructions follow …
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WordPress plugin : tan tan noodles WordPress Reports
Tan Tan Noodles’s wordpress reports plugin has just been updated as announced on the plugin’s homepage :
Bug Fixes: WordPress Reports (0.81) : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
A bug fix release for the WordPress Reports plugin is now available for download.
If you are using WordPress+Google Analytics+FeedBurner then this plugin is a must : it will let you get the main reports of both statistics tools directly from you WordPress admin interface. Continue reading WordPress plugin : tan tan noodles WordPress Reports
Collection pages
In case you read this blog only through the RSS feeds, you might not have noticed the few new pages on the left hand menu bar. Those pages are dynamically generated by pulling the RSS feed of my del.icio.us bookmarks for specific tag combinations (like wordpress+plugin+must).
Feel free to have a look from time to time, to check for modifications !
For now, you’ll find :
- a book list
- a list of my most used Firefox plugins
- a list of y favorite free (like beer) softwares
- and my favorite wordpress plugins
And in case you wonder, those pages are generated thanks to the wonderful inlineRSS wordpress plugin, which makes pulling RSS feeds from your blog damn easy.
WordPress and AdSense: Getting money from your WordPress blog
WordPress is a great blogging platform, which will let you easily publish your blog. Now, considering the amount of time you’ll probably spend writing contents, you might want to get money from it (all work deserves money, right ? 😉 ).
I’ll show you how to do this easily, by using the advertisement program of Google : AdSense.
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Scripting Twitter with Perl + LWP
A little follow up on yesterday article about scripting Twitter with cURL: the solution was working, but somehow inconvenient. Not practical to have to go and fetch the user id every time you want to send a direct message !
This time, I scripted Twitter direct message with Perl and LWP (libwww-perl), for a much more convenient solution. I designed it to be used like a sort of universal paging service.
Scripting Twitter with cURL
Twitter already provides an API but it is currently very limited. It will let you fairly easily change your status, but won’t let you send a direct message.
Comes in cURL. cURL is a very versatile command line utility which is designed to script web pages interactions. As a little demo, I’ll show you how to use it to easily overcome the shortcomings of Twitter’s API.
Twitter : Send free SMS messages to your friends
If you don’t know yet about Twitter, you might want to have a look at my previous article about it.
One of its neat features is the (previously written about) ability to send direct messages to your friends.
This feature will let you easily send free SMS from your computer to any of your friends. Continue reading Twitter : Send free SMS messages to your friends
Multicast : Listing group memberships
Windows XP
To see multicast group memberships in Windows XP, you can use netsh :
U:>netsh interface ip show joins Interface Addr Multicast Group --------------- --------------- 192.168.139.1 224.0.0.1 192.168.137.1 224.0.0.1 192.168.136.1 224.0.0.1
Solaris (and probably other Unixen as well)
In Solaris, the netstat command can be used :
$ netstat -g Group Memberships: IPv4 Interface Group RefCnt --------- -------------------- ------ lo0 224.0.0.1 1 eri0 224.0.0.1 1 $
Twitter : Unified messaging interface
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users » Slacker Manager
If you just want to send a note directly to someone, you can get them via the direct messages web interface.
Damn ! I’m a twitter user myself, but how could I have overlooked that “direct message” feature ? Now you can think of twitter as a unified messaging interface. If the personne you’re sending a message didn’t configure anything then the message will wait to be read on the website. If she configured IM and cell phone, then she’ll get it on the IM when online, on the cell phone when not. Pretty cool !
The rest of the quoted article is worth to be read !