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And here I thought Firebird was supposed to be small, tight, and compact…. I left the machine for a meeting and came back….

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So the past couple of days have been quite interesting.
On monday, some site or another that one of us went to decided to start downloading/installing tons of apps. mySearch toolbar, Lycos search agent, some coupon thing, a clock sync program and a weather app.
What is odd is that we don’t (really we don’t) go […]

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I’m not sure what kind of prompts people like, but personally I like having the cwd in my prompt. This gets rather long when you’re using terminal monkey, so here’s something you can include in your bash startup file (for RH9 it appears to be your .bash_profile )
[link for customizing your prompt]
Note: This assumes […]

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so it appears you can’t pipe commands on the SK. There’s no | that I can find.
I think someone should prove me wrong.

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Just pulled the SK out of the bag, and it had the nice message ‘You’re device is ready to update..’

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This really does seem to be a sign of the times. McDonalds is teaming up with Apple(iTunes) to give away 1 billion downloads. Also of note is that McD’s is paying the asking price of 99 cents per song.
Evidantally Pepsi recently annonced they’d be doing roughly the same thing but with 100m songs.
How […]

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I’m still in sponge mode with python. I happened across another great command-line interpreter experience dealing with mail:
%python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 13 2002, 15:50:06)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> from poplib import *
>>> s = POP3(’my.mailhost.com’)
>>> s.user(’username’)
‘+OK’
>>>
%
I think I’m still convinced that one of the best […]

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I’m evaluating a piece of software called postnuke. Now I haven’t taken a chance to look at the code, but from what I see above the hood I’m very impressed.

Straight off with the installer (web installer), I’ve been impressed with what you get out of the box. There’s something to be said for […]

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There’s quite a bit going on around here. A new server, and a few power outages. There’s bound to be more hiccups on the way.

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If you’re an astute reader, you’ll notice something in the lower right corner of the blog. See, there below the archives, below the links. What is that you must be saying. Well here is what it is.

It is the last 5 songs that I have listened to. Whether I’m at work, or […]

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