http://fophillips.org/b dot org Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I use procmail to manage my incoming email and mutt to read it. Unfortunately mutt doesn’t handle dates from different timezones very well, so I came up with this procmail recipe using Ruby’s Time#parse method to convert the Date header to the current timezone: DATE_=`formail -xDate: \ ... http://fophillips.org/b/timezones-with-procmail I was recently invited to the boxee (Flash warning) alpha test. Currently the only free platform they support is Ubuntu GNU/Linux, but they do offer unsupported source code download. Unfortunately attached to the download page was a license agreement which, among other things, prevented redistribution and modification of the code. ... http://fophillips.org/b/boxee Top posting is the bane of internet mailing lists, the horrors of which are made clear in this example: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. ... http://fophillips.org/b/top-posting I recently switched my server to NetBSD for a number of reasons. Mainly it was the challenge of having a new system, and the brief experience I had with NetBSD was positive (except screen on x86_64 failed to detect my terminfo properly). Another deciding factor was the heightened security available on most BSD systems, ... http://fophillips.org/b/get-out-of-jail Whenever I am writing web apps I always find myself thinking that the filenames in URLs detract from the whole experience. Is there really any need for .html, or .php to be seen by the browser so long as the server knows what it needs to do? I am always writing ... http://fophillips.org/b/prettifying-urls I now share a VM with teenlug.com on a wonderful bytemark for a very reasonable price. I now have decent loading times of images. http://fophillips.org/b/new-digs Since my previous post where I said I would be keeping the default Xandros installation on my EeePC I have installed Eeebuntu. I have been using it for about 2 days now, and after using paludis for a few months it is quite clear how catastrophically abysmal apt really is. ... http://fophillips.org/b/searching-for-the-perfect-distro The default theme for IceWM on the EeePC is an ugly Luna (Windows XP) clone. So I am mashing together the AsusBlue (for the taskbar) and eiskristall for window decorations. At the moment it looks like this: Get the latest source from my darcs repository and put the directory in /usr/share/icewm/themes and ... http://fophillips.org/b/theeeming My EeePC has arrived today. And I can quite safely say it is the best thing I have ever bought. I was considering putting another distro on here (Gentoo), but now I have been using it all day I don't really think it needs anything else. I even found the “advanced” ... http://fophillips.org/b/the-eee-has-landed I use this little script with dzen and dmplex to show the current song info in a little bar at the top of my right-hand screen. You need to make sure you have dcop up and running. #!/bin/zsh while true; do ARTIST=$(dcop amarok player artist) ALBUM=$(dcop amarok player album) ... http://fophillips.org/b/amarok-in-dzen