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Sorry, I Don’t Audition

I'm sniffing around for ideas on how to mount an OSX Disk image (a .dmg file) in Ubuntu, and I stumbled on this thread which has some other good Ubuntu ideas. I was tempted to ask there for advice, but apparently, before I'll be allowed to comment I have ...

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Single Sign On (too many passwords)

I'm fantasizing right now about how to hook a handful of disparate projects together with exactly one login file. Recycle-A-Bicycle is hosted on Mayfirst/People Link, which uses a cool system called Red to manage most hosting account related fun. They're generating system users with Red, so shell accounts, email, and ...

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Brahms dot Local

Used to be, I had a Mac. I complained some, I liked it some. Whoopee. One thing it did that I liked, was it streamlined local name based virtual hosting. If you do any kind of web development, that can be pretty helpful, name based virtual hosts on your local computer. ...

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Redhat Repositories

Continuing with my purely hypothetical project, taking over a server that I didn't build ... I'm wondering about Yum. Say you've got a RHEL4 server, and there aren't any functional package managers running (up2date is there, but that only looks for kernel upgrades) and you want some package management. I installed ...

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How do I view a mail queue?

Say you're responsible for a server, and you want to take a look at mail that this server is sending out. How do you do that? Hypothetically, lets assume that you didn't build this server, you just took it over and are trying to reign in all kinds of ...

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Email is Broken (and the long tail)

I've been struggling with a new learning curve lately: email deliverability (and how to ensure it). I'm working on a site that maintains a handful of newsletters (two dozen, give or take) that send out 20,000 messages a day. Add in the fun bonus that they've been without a functional ...

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Boycott Alcatraz Cruises

I'm visiting with my brother, who is peeved that some page Marissa made turns up at the top of Google's search results for Oliver Hickman, while his own site doesn't show up at all. That really is him on TV.com, too, but the rest are bogus. His ...

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I might hate my computer but I love my blog

It has been a while since I bugged Marius to make some adjustments to make Gtimelog easier for me to use. He did make some adjustments and he left me (and you) an updated version of his Time Tracker. It wasn't in the Ubuntu repositories, though, and I ...

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