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Have you tried zooming in to this page? Assuming you are using a sensible browser, the images at the top are rendered as SVG (falling back to PNG if you run a browser not compatible - IE?). This means zooming in and autoresizing on mobile devices is seamless and beautiful.

The Gentoo documentation for adding user quotas actually tells the user to create invalid quota files, leaving quotacheck to fix them up on next reboot. This is pretty stupid, so here’s the proper way to create user quotas:

After upgrading Dovecot from 1.0 to 1.2, I just spent the last hour trying to get the sieve plugin working again (after the rewrite from cmusieve). When deliver invoked sieve, the latter would die with the following error:

It appears SpamAssassin has a nasty rule that checks if a mail is “grossly in the future” - by comparing the Date header to a hardcoded regex pattern:

A little-known feature in all Samsung LCD monitors (that is, the PC monitors) is the service menu. It displays lots of good information about the panel, such as its uptime, firmware revision, etc.

Update: I should have tested before posting: you don’t need to set up the logging, you simply need to pass echo_pool=True to create_engine(). /Update

There are multiple ways to compute an absolute value in C, including linking with the math library (bloat!). Although using an if statement and multiplying by -1 might seem easy…

GStreamer is a multimedia framework used extensively in GNOME applications (such as QuodLibet, a media player). Due to its relationship with GNOME, it primarily runs on Linux. However getting it to run under Windows is quite easy.

After playing around with a product-that-shall-remain-eye-queue-nameless today, I found a nice way to stream the audio coming out of an audio source online through Linux:

This is the first article in my The day the music died series on jazz and its influence on music culture over the last 100 years.

I have recently been trying to get ODBC working nicely (ha) on Linux so I can talk to a Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) that is not under my direct control (otherwise I would just rip it out and replace it with a PostgreSQL one instead). Unfortunately, it seems most of the documentation for the various free ODBC tools (unixODBC and FreeTDS) are out of date and in some cases, just plain incorrect (namely DSN-less configuration: don’t waste your time, it’s completely broken).

The mimetypes module provides a great interface for guessing the MIME types of files. Which is great, except mimetypes.guess_type() requires you pass it the filename to inspect. This makes sense on first thought, but what if you already have the data stored somewhere (say, as a blob)?

Last week I submitted my thesis for Special Topics in Computer Science 3B: Towards a POSIX userland for Ulysses.

I just found out about a nifty new feature introduced in Vim 7: omni completion (or, omnifunc). This feature mimics the auto-complete functionality of most IDEs.

Ever since switching to xfce4 (and xfce-terminal), terminal has been incredibly slow at redrawing itself. This happens when starting a new process, or shuffling the window in xmonad.

We’ve all heard this story before, but here it is again anyway:

Came across an interesting blockage in Portage this morning.

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, “Dijkstra would not have liked this”, well that would be enough immortality for me.

Okay, so here is my issue.