I wanted to get notified on Twitter replies and mentions instantly, both on my Mac and on my iPhone. Since Google released Push for the iPhone a couple of weeks ago, an email based solution would be perfect.
Get Twitter Mentions is a bash script well suited for this task. It is easily customizable and you [...]
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Getting push replies for Twitter for free
Safe document writing using Dropbox
Lots of people who write articles or create content in any form, often find themselves generating lots of files. A writer will for instance probably have lots of article drafts laying around. Everyone have different solutions for revision control and backup, ranging from a simple manual file copy to using a full-fledged revision control system [...]
Updating the Postfix HOWTO
The time has come to update the Postfix HOWTO for Debian and Ubuntu on the website. There are lots of changes done in the Postfix and Dovecot distribution, as well as input from lots of commenters. The release of the latest Debian distribution called Etch, there have been some major improvements of various components.
Within the next [...]
Automate system administration tasks using Nagios
As a system administrator, one often have to do repetitive tasks such as checking for free disk space, check mail queues and monitor critical services. If there are only a handful of servers, this task may not be very intimidating, but there are many times when there are many servers to monitor, or just for the sake [...]
Create a fixed size network storage for Time Machine
Time Machine is a backup program built into Mac OS 10.5, Leopard. It saves all files on the computer on a USB or network drive, which can be used for restoration of individual files or the whole computer.
The normal behavior of Time Machine is to keep
hourly backups for the past 24 hours
daily backups for the [...]
Run virtual servers using XEN
Running virtual servers may save you a bundle on server costs, but in the same time create a more secure environment by separating services into logical hosts. This guide will show you how to setup a XEN virtual server using Debian, but it may also be used on Ubuntu if that it preferred.
Installation
The first task [...]
Ubuntu 7.10 – The Gutsy Gibbon released
The time has come for the new Ubuntu version to be released. The Gutsy Gibbon is here with lots of new features including desktop search, NTFS writing, encrypted hard disks and AppArmor. You can read more about the new features in the release notes.
Updating to 7.10 is very easy and just involves starting the update [...]
Add proper SSL/TLS support for all applications using stunnel
I really like Evolution both for email and its calendaring features. The problem is that one of my email accounts requires an SSL client certificate to be able to connect. Thunderbird supports this out of the box, but Evolution does not. Instead of patching Evolution itself, it would be much easier to just proxy the [...]
Test Ubuntu without repartitioning your harddrive
Many people in the support channels on IRC ask if there is a way to try Ubuntu without having to repartition the drive. There is of course the possibility to run it from the live-CD, but it is very slow and the settings are not permanently stored.
Let me introduce Wubi.
Wubi is a free software installer, [...]