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Personal Wiki

About two months ago I started a wiki. No, not here, on red, the Linux box in my basement. The goal was to try to replace the ~/Notes dir on my Mac with something I could easily get to (I always have a browser running) and something that would allow for easy linking and searching. I know a directory full of text files is the unix way, but I wanted something different.

I’ve been using wiki’s for a long time, but never really set up a “Personal Wiki” just for me before.

So far it’s been a huge success with all of it’s users (me) in that I’ve added over 50 pages in two months. sure there was an initial surge in page creation, but it seems that I add new pages at least every few days, and make edits almost daily. It’s a lot of personal stuff, which people would find even less interesting that what I am writing now. (If you can believe that.)

Now as for the directory full of text files, I think wget -r mixed in with some perl and cron on my desktop machine might actually solve that issue…

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AFP, SSH, Something Like That

I was trying to get afp running over ssh, which I did by the way (of course I try to make everything run over ssh) and I realized that months back I actually did get Netatalk running on brew, my Red Hat 7 box. So I figured I should check red, my Fedora box, and it looked like I started but never finished the config. 5 minutes later I had it all done. At least I think. It’s behind a firewall so I have not tested it yet. I would have, if the Linksys router web-based config interface worked properly in lynx. I mean, some of it does, just not the port forwarding part, which sucks if, you know, you are at a remote location and want to forward a port, remotely, or something.

(This post fills my “geek speak” quotient for the day, I am now free to talk about cats.)

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Update for December 2004

November had two issues, me working on way too many projects, and thusly taking up way too much of my time, and a bit of that blockage mr. orchard speaks of, wherein you wonder if what you are writing has any worth at all…

I learned recently that “blogs” are for “guys wasting time on the internet writing about stuff” which I suppose is at least better than wasting time playing video games, but I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

As for the dare I say “writer’s block” thing, well, we’ve been at this since 1997, so stopping isn’t really an option. I suppose it is, if I were to get both of my hands chopped off, well… then I could get a monkey and teach it to upload podcasts of me rambling about something…

Anyway, on to the new stuff, which you already read if you do the reverse-chronological thing in reading this, which you might in a browser, but since almost all traffic to this site is via aggregators, that is doubtful. Nonetheless, enjoy!

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Dump that Tivo! (My way…)

Can you believe those Tivo folks? The nerve! I mean sheesh!

But what can you do? Dump your Tivo!

Here’s what you will do: You will disconnect your Tivo, you will contact me for my shipping address, and you will then ship that stupid Tivo to me.

What will I do? I will take all of the Tivo’s and make sure that those Tivo folks never get any more money from Tivo subscriptions (you can trust me, I’m cheap and will not pay for it.) I will also sacrifice (some of) the Tivo’s by destroying them, probably by running them over with my car, or dragging them behind the car, or by smashing them with a hammer, or stating them on fire. I will attempt to take photos of this, or video (once I get a new digital camera to replace the broken one, or a new video camera battery and video-to-computer device.)

Listen Tivo owners, I’m on your side, who else can say that!?

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The Gmail API

Huh? The Gmail API? That’s right… While the release of POP access to Gmail left many people yawning, or complaining, or just looking puzzled and muttering “IMAP” to anyone who would listen, I dug into Mail::POP3Client.

Mail::POP3Client is a perl module that can talk to a POP3 server. (Yes, it can use SSL so it works just fine with Gmail.) You do have to turn on POP access in Gmail, and check the Configuring other mail clients page for the proper settings. I think I had a simple perl script talking to the Gmail servers in about 10 minutes. (It would have been less, but I had to install Net::SSLeay as well.)

So while Gmail’s old web interface is nice and all, it’s really made for humans, while this POP access is made for machines. Go! Go! Machines!!!