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It would be difficult to not like bash's programmable completion. It's too bad I've had such a hard time wrapping my head around the programmable completion toolkit.

Google has added some search options to pages, including date-based searches, a variety of ways to find related information, and more options for displaying images with your results. Good stuff.

After one too many compilation errors due to a missing quote/brace/bracket/etc., I finally enabled Vim syntax highlighting. The rabbit hole: :syn on. These colors suck. Look for themes. 4 bit themes suck. Let’s set up an 8 bit color terminal. Leopard’s Terminal.app fails, install iTerm 0.9.6. iTerm works, but I use GNU screen all day. Recompile screen with --enable-colors256. screen [...]

Digest version: it's sweet.

Three other people will find this useful.

Perl isn't fun to read.

A day of changes.

Running a mail server is almost worth all the trouble.

All the fun without all the work.

And it all comes together.

Time to upgradepkg.

It plays music, it doesn't just scream wildly.

Down, boy.

Quite handy, I say.

Not that kind of tape. Well, actually, it is that kind of tape...

A time saver, for sure.

Seldom necessary, always difficult.

Hey, there it is.

I've updated the Subversion page on my wiki with instructions for ViewCVS.

Been blogging only lightly these past few days.

Server administration while you sleep.

Be nice to your users.

Short version: even Evolution can't make Exchage not suck.

Where am I? Where are you?

Use them constantly.

Open-source benefits all.

Ever want to test command line arguments in bash, mixing arguments and execution options? I have. Here's one way to do it.

I did some scripting for work yesterday, and came up with this little snippet to ensure important scripts will run as root.