Ian's TechBlog

I document my adventures and problems so that I remember my mistakes, and perhaps you may learn something.
I'm not a programmer, nor a computer expert.
I'm just a tinkering guy in Milwaukee with a store and three kids to keep me busy.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Creating an Evolution e-mail from the command line and python

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Evolution is intended as a GUI e-mail client, so the scripting options are limited. Also, it looks like you cannot autosend e-mail from a sc...

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Fixing a broken cron job

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I am afflicted by Ubuntu Bug #189462 , and so I'm getting occasional e-mails from cron that tell me: /etc/cron.daily/slocate: slocate: ...

Saturday, July 19, 2008

What are all these processes?

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Trying to figure out all the processes I have running, to see what I can kill, and which packages I can remove. According to gnome-system-m...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Configuring Wine in Xubuntu

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Wine 1.0 bugs and fixes. 'Browse C Drive' fails with url not found . This is because Thunar doesn't do bash-style completion, an...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Using aria2c for ftp, http, and torrent downloads

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Trying aria2c as a command-line replacement for wget, curl, and torrents. Use a new line for each file to download. Use aria2c -D URI for...

Monday, July 14, 2008

Installing DOD CLASS 3 CA-7 security certificate into Firefox 3.0

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Superseded by http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/cac-on-firefox-using-ubuntu-1504.html The US Army has a plethora of website...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Messing with the history file

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I set the following bash history to make the history file more useful to me. HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth #Prevent duplicate history entries ...

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