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checking fetchmail’s log file for sslfingerprint complaints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fetchmail https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/blob/master/fetchmail–extract_fingerprints.pl Having run my log file analyser for a couple of days, I can only tell you, it’s a big relief to know, when sslfingerprints are alright and when they are not and also how to fix them instantly. I am checking my e-mail not by looking at my dozens of IMAP folders, but I…
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my Thursday evening movie at the Sony Center: Fury (2014) – a WWII action drama with Brad Pit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180/faq : Q: How could a single Tiger tank do so much damage to the Shermans? A: … The Sherman tank was used by the Allies in every theatre of World War 2 and was famed for its’ speed, manouverability, reliability and ease of mass production. However its’ 75/76mm gun was generally incapable of penetrating the…
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Asaf Avidan’s new album “Gold Shadow” – yet another appetizer appeared – and not just on YouTube
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00Q5KIF1U What a nice idea: paying for the appetizers now, paying for only the difference of the price of the entire MP3 album, once it’s out. If I had known before, I would have already gone for that, when I purchased “over my head” a couple of days ago. Well, never really too late. Was…
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Steven Harnad’s article: To Cognize is to Categorize – Cognition is Categorization
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/261725/
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modifying metadata and “Tags” of your e-books – using calibre
Calibre allows you to edit metadata of your books like e.g. Tags, I call that categories. And I love using categories (from DMOZ.org). But if I change book metadata in calibre, they stay in calibre’s database – until I do “Save to disk” – but then the updated books still go to a separate directory…
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O’Reilly Media book: Scott Berkun: Confessions of a Public Speaker (October 2009)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802004.do http://bookzz.org/s/?q=Scott+Berkun+confessions+of+a+public+speaker&e=1&t=0
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O’Reilly Media book: Scott Berkun: Making Things Happen – Mastering Project Management (March 2008)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517717.do http://bookzz.org/s/?q=Scott+Berkun+Making+Things+Happen&e=1&t=0
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my hibiscus wrapper now alerts me through XMPP, when the hibiscus server found new bank transactions
http://sendxmpp.hostname.sk I am using the sendxmpp utility (written in Perl) for that.
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emacs on OS X: error in dired sorting – that patch makes me happy
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4076360/error-in-dired-sorting-on-os-x