Thomer's Technical Tips

Here is a list of (occasionally very) short articles that describe a solution to problem.

Mail

› Prevent spam with Mail Avenger, spamassassin, bogofilter, procmail, and DNS
› How to use a MailAvenger smart host on Mac OS X (Postfix)
› How to set up a Postfix relay with SASL, TLS, Postgrey, and ClamAV
› Mail readers choke on mutt's sent mail mbox folder
› How to compile mutt on Mac OS X

Hacks

› ICMPTX (IP-over-ICMP) HOWTO
› NSTX (IP-over-DNS) HOWTO
› Filename completion with Vim's Netrw plugin (scp:// only)

Linux

› Ubuntu 8.04: Hardy Heron is Horrid Hardship
› How to override the default keyboard layout in Linux
› Fix sound (for Flash plugin) in Mozilla Firefox in Linux
› Use a Delkin Devices eFilm CompactFlash Reader-31 in Linux
› Installing TinyOS on Debian
› Running your own Linux router over Verizon DSL
› Mount CDROM (.iso) image as loopback device
› Burn or write a CD with cdrecord and ide-cd
› Enabling DMA on a SATA DVD drive, kernel 2.6.18
› Make kxkb, xmodmap, xkb work together
› Fix backspace in less
› Some common commands for screen
› Make middle mouse button (paste) load URL in Firefox
› Firefox hangs with flash
› Read the webalizer DNS cache file with Perl
› Generate a certificate for apache or lighttpd
› Speeding up Vim's Netrw plugin over ssh/scp

Images and Sounds

› Create interlaced/progressive JPG/JPEG images
› Capture or record a real audio/video (rtsp) stream in Linux
› Extract the embedded jpg from a raw image
› Copy EXIF data from one image to another
› Convert any video file for an iPod or iPhone
› How to bulk download a SmugMug photo album/gallery
› How to detect the presence of sound/audio

Typesetting

› Embed fonts in a PDF with pdflatex
› Convert PostScript to Encasulated PostScript while cropping white space

Life

› How (not) to eat hagelslag
› How to react when speaking with a person who stutters
› How to make vla / vla recept / vla recipe
› Divide points between (part-time) people when rostering/scheduling