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observing the procmail LOGFILE
I am a fervent user of procmail, have been such a user, since I found out, that sieve is far less available in any such mail environment as mine at my provider’s site.
I really don’t know of a lot of others, that also use procmail. I think, Axel uses procmail as well, I worked with Axel like almost 15 years ago at ERNO. I only found out, that “Sven G.” (a rather prominent open source person living in Berlin) also uses procmail, when we had a pasta evening together in my kitchen last Friday.
Observing procmail LOGFILE is my way of finding out about new e-mail messages, that try to reach me. I think, usually people have a look at their single mailbox (in case they are POP3 users) or at their 5 IMAP folders (just guessing that “5”). I have like 50 IMAP folders, and because I quite often toggle the “READ flag” of messages back to “unread”, observing procmail LOGFILE and also keeping separate track of important messages in my diary is my way of attempting not to lose track.
Now why did I start this article today? Sven G. is a “procmail LOGFILE observer“, too. And by “observer” I mean using “tail -f” on that logfile – IYKWIM. I just remembered that and Sven G., when I restarted that command line yet once again, and that raised a smile in my heart, that I enjoyed.
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absolute cell reference in Open Office resp. Libre Office
Instead of B2 you write $B2 resp. B$2 resp. $B$2 to designate an absolute cell reference.
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why I do not donate to wikimedia
I do not donate to wikimedia because of that awkward “wikipediacracy” game. Too many trolls showing how important they are playing police. This is far away from paradise. Get the trolls out of their control positions, and I start donating, because I still appreciate the wikipedias a lot – despite the trolls. I don’t mind, if it looks a little chaotic.
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Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard): the Finder hangs again
I tried to make LibreOffice the default application for a file on a Samba network folder, and Finder hangs – not LibreOffice. I am now going to kill Finder, and I assume during the remainder of the day I also have to restart the entire OS again, which implies restarting almost all applications with all their current state. Annoying stuff! But it happens with other contemporary operating systems just as well. But ordinary OS X users keep telling the rest of the world, that you never experience trouble with OS X, which just isn’t true.
The Finder does not get relaunched, and when you try to launch it yourself, this is what they show you:
The application Finder.app can’t be opened.
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[OK]You can’t really do a lot without a running Finder, so now I am going to restart OS X
Even the rebooting procedure stalled at “continuing”, and I had to do a cold reboot. This is, how bad it really can get with OS X.
-> https://wp.jochen.hayek.name/blog-en/2019/01/09/macos-keyboard-shortcuts-mission-control-dock/
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“Open Office” -> “Libre Office”
I decided to go for the OpenOffice fork “LibreOffice”. I just hope, the names behind that organisation really mean, this is a steady thing.
I did not want to go through this entire customisation process with LibreOffice on my Mac (and so forth) again, so I copied OpenOffice.org/3 to (a fresh) LibreOffice/3. I am of course not sure, this is a good thing, but it seems to save time.