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Take Control of Using Mountain Lion: Learn to function effectively with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, whether you want to embrace recently added features (such as Notifications, Launchpad, gestures, and Mission Control) or want to strike a balance between old and new options. Most importantly, you’ll get a thorough grounding in Mountain Lion’s new “modern…

Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion: Best-selling author Joe Kissell guides you through every step in the process of upgrading to Mountain Lion. You’ll begin with a compatibility check, learn to make a suitable pre-upgrade backup, and then follow assorted pre-upgrade advice, including managing your Apple ID, deleting digital detritus, and making a safe…

http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000015413 (link for the UK) http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=englisch/bookdetails&productid=145891 (link for Germany) You can order an “on demand” paper copy of this book. I owe a paper copy of this book (I got mine through Amazon), and I would love to have a PDF available. Yes, of course, there are a few manual pages for procmail etc., but this…

Regexp::Common – Provide commonly requested regular expressions – metacpan.org I came across R::C through the chapter on Canned Regexes in the Perl Best Practices book [Link]. Don’t get me wrong: I really appreciate R::C (i.e. this package)! Really! All due respect! Under “-keep” results from R::C get returned as numbered captures. If I figure that out correctly,…

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Regexp::Common – Provide commonly requested regular expressions – metacpan.org The various patterns are not anchored. … This is by design, and not a bug. If you want the pattern to be anchored, use something like: … I.e. enclose it in something like this: m{^RE{…}$} ! And as opposed to advises elsewhere by the original author…

I had written a specific procmail rule a while ago, it had worked for quite a while, for quite some while now it had not worked as expected; I had a look at the header lines as displayed by my e-mail reader, I also had a look at my procmail LOGFILE; the subject line looked rather…

Simple ssh works from one to the other, but “ssh -X” or “ssh -Y” don’t achieve, what I expect them to do. “X11Forwarding” already set to true on the target side, and sshd restarted there as well. $DISPLAY still not set after all these attempts. I upgraded the target side OS-wise recently, now it’s running openSUSE-12.1.…

I “published” a lot of blog articles from the “Draft” status, which caused them to get picked up by the tweets generator.