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SMS to Twitter

Mark Lindeman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:42:23 +0000

I've wrote this shell script that uses an SMS to post to Twitter. It is ment to be used as an Eventhander for SMS Server Tools, but it's simple enough for stand alone usage with simple text files.

Bash script to read XMail boxes with Mutt

Mark Lindeman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:43:06 +0000

For Postmasters: easy way to read a mailbox from your XMail spool. If you have a CDB file (see this post), it is also capable of looking up aliases.

readmail real.user@domain.org
#or:
readmail an.alias@domain.org
#or if your RootDomain is domain.org:
readmail an.alias

XMail to CDB-database for use with qpsmtpd

Mark Lindeman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:28:48 +0000

This scripts creates a Constant DataBase file. We use this to interact with the qpsmtpd plugin check_validrcptto_cdb.

KDE dialog for crypysetup

Mark Lindeman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:17:18 +0000

Here is a bash script that uses kdialog to present a password prompt and tries to mount a crypt device. It interacts with the (k)ubuntu "cryptsetup" package.

PostgreSQL 8.2 with tsearch2 and Dutch Snowball stemmer

Mark Lindeman — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:13:57 +0000

quick walk-through for compiling PostgreSQL with tsearch2 full text extension and Dutch Snowball stemmer on Debian Etch:

Quanta Documentation

Mark Lindeman — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:26:37 +0000

I’ve created php5 and mysql5 documentation packages for Quanta. They include an installer and come in several languages. I’m working on PHP:PEAR Documentation. Download here …

Mysql character set

Mark Lindeman — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:07:20 +0000

Today I had this problem with a MySQL/php application: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT)

WAN IP address to clipboard (KDE only!)

Mark Lindeman — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:33:02 +0000

Often I want to copy/paste my WAN IP address, here is a shellscript for it (warning: kde only, requires wget and sed, no error detecting whatsoever!) #!/bin/bash ip=$(wget -q -O – http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | sed ‘s/.+ (([[:digit:]]{1,3}.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}).+/1/’) dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents $ip echo $ip

Mailsplitter

Mark Lindeman — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:42:11 +0000

We use Spamassassin as anti spam tool with Bayes learning. If I want to feed spam massages to the sa-learn tool, I have to get individual messages from my Thunderbird Mailfolder which stores all mails together in a text file.

CD/DVD layout maker

Mark Lindeman — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:37:44 +0000

Sometimes you have to write lots of CD's/DVD's of even more files. This scripts loops through files in a target directory and creates new "virtual disks" and places symbolic links in it to the found file. If a "virtual disk" is full it will create another one. You can define your own pattern for the disknames.