Author: johayek
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creating diary entries from procmail LOGFILE entries
Incoming e-mail messages may be worth getting recorded in a diary, of course most of them are not, do you agree? Quite some times I manually create diary entries from my procmail LOGFILE. I should have written a script to do that a long time ago. Now I did. That effort was really, really little,…
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ruby and here-documents
Ruby has such a feature, and of course it’s pretty, pretty useful. I found an article on here-documents in several programming languages at the English wikipedia.
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a call monitor for the FRITZ!Box, using a gmail address book and an area code directory
The FRITZ!Box family of routers also provide telephony services, actually all my phones go through my 7390. They are built using Linux and Busybox. On its TCP/IP port 1012 it offers event records on all telephony actions. Last Christmas I implemented a ruby script dealing with these event records and the “call threads“. Yes, there…
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no more worries with winmail.dat
How often did I receive e-mail with a single weird winmail.dat attached, actually incorporating quite a few more real attachments … How often did this drive me nuts … During the last few years I was in the lucky position, that my webmail software actually supported me there by showing me the contents and allowing…
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using “buildroot” for re-building a FRITZ!Box Linux kernel and system
I got the silly idea of mounting a traditional Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on my current FRITZ!Box 7390. I got pointed to buildroot, some nice software, that tries to ease to job of building the compilation toolchain, the libc, the busybox and all that for embedded Linux devices. Found an article on … describing exactly my…
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postbank.de and JasperReports
When I drew my current account statement today, I was curious and applied the “pdfinfo” command on it. I was quite astonished, when it said this: Creator: JasperReports (kontoauszug) Producer: iText 1.4 (by lowagie.com) I went back to their first PDF statements in 2006, and they said just the same. Of course I would like…
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SIP and international telephone numbers to get called at
You are living in country X, but you want to have a telephone number in country Y, where you can get called at. Some combinations of providers and governments won’t allow it, but it’s worth having a look at it. Some providers will charge you quite some Dollars, Euros, or whatever. Find out! Here are…
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Eyjafjallajökull
There is an article on it on en.wikipedia.org resp. on the current events: Eyjafjallajökull — translated as “Eyja-fjalla glacier” or “island-fells glacier”—is one of the smaller glaciers of Iceland.