Happy Holidays

An Xmas editorial I really like.

Unclear on that whole email thing

Last week I got some US postal mail from some relatives. It contained printouts of their AOL email and were forwarding on to me. No handwritten note, just the printouts. Yes, they know what my email address is and have even managed to send to it before.

I won't say who they are on the slim-to-nil chance that they find this website...

An experiment at work

I've started a work blog @ hp about the linux related work I do there.
A couple of folks on the internal IRC were into it.

If you are in the 15.x.x.x (hp.com) or 16.x.x.x (dec.com acquired by compaq.com) netblock (yes, HP has cornered the market of large IP address blocks), take a look at marc's linux solutions engineering @hp weblog

New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is looking for bible record donations

The latest New England Ancestors Magazine has a small article about the NEHGS is soliciting donations of old family bibles that contain genealogical records, but they are also accepting scans of the title page and those pages with genealogical information. I'm going to see if they are interested in scans of my newly aquired Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1756 bible[1].

Footnotes:
[1] http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/2002/11/09#genealogy/2002-11-08-gideon-taylor

One of the last hurdles on the way to debian developerhood...

My AM finally sent me the 't&s' questionnaire (he wasn't checking the email account I was pinging him at)

Pretty straight forward stuff where most of the answers can be found in the various debian developer documents. Just a matter of finding time to work through the questions...

blosxom package has been ACCEPTED submitted to debian/unstable

Cool beans.

Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:32:31 -0500
From: Debian Installer 
To: Marc Nozell 
X-Katie: lisa $Revision: 1.19 $
Subject: blosxom_0.5i-3_i386.changes ACCEPTED

Accepted:
blosxom_0.5i-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/b/blosxom/blosxom_0.5i-3.diff.gz
blosxom_0.5i-3.dsc
  to pool/main/b/blosxom/blosxom_0.5i-3.dsc
blosxom_0.5i-3_all.deb
  to pool/main/b/blosxom/blosxom_0.5i-3_all.deb
blosxom_0.5i.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/blosxom/blosxom_0.5i.orig.tar.gz
Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org
Closing bugs: 157439


Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

blosxom package submitted to debian/unstable

My first package that I've debianized has been uploaded and in the
queue for 'unstable'. Hooray!

If you can't wait for it to show up on the debian mirrors, grab a copy
from http://www.nozell.com/marc/debian/

From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Marc Nozell <marc@nozell.com>
X-Katie: $Revision: 1.28 $
Subject: blosxom_0.5i-3_i386.changes is NEW

(new) blosxom_0.5i-3.diff.gz optional web
(new) blosxom_0.5i-3.dsc optional web
(new) blosxom_0.5i-3_all.deb optional web
A lightweight yet feature-packed weblog
 Blosxom is a feature-packed weblog designed from the ground up with
 simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind.
 .
 Blosxom is pronounced "blossom"
(new) blosxom_0.5i.orig.tar.gz optional web
Changes: blosxom (0.5i-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
  * Addressed lamont's packaging comments. (closes: Bug#157439)
Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org
Closing bugs: 157439

Your package contains new components which requires manual editing of
the override file.  It is ok otherwise, so please be patient.  New
packages are usually added to the override file about once a week.

You may have gotten the distribution wrong.  You'll get warnings above
if files already exist in other distributions.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

Last week three different people alerted me to an auction on ebay of an 1857 family bible. The seller had scanned in a couple of the pages that showed the original owner (Gideon Taylor) as well as some of the marriage and birth records (m. Sarah Burr). The three people did a search on google and rootweb.com and found that they were in my genealogy (actually my wife's side).

Fifty dollars later and the bible is back in the hands of the
family!. I've scanned the the genealogically interesting pages and offered them to anyone
who is interested.

Positive feedback from my manager today

I had just responded to a field person about a particular Linux question with some detailed information and pointed her to a number of our external corporate pages with more relevant information. This is the 'attaboy' from my manager:


Nice, overwhelm them with URLs, that's the ticket ;-)


You shall fight besides me as we take on the masters of
the digital plantations. No longer shall we remain poverty
impoverished shareware cropping lackies.

Well done.



P.S.

Management/employee bonding lesson 42
I'm really getting the nack
of this...


I laughed for about 5 minutes.

BlogChalking

"Collaboratively mapping weblogs for smarter blogsearching"

This is my blogchalk:
United States, New Hampshire, Merrimack, Wildcat Falls, English, , , , Linux, Genealogy.

Scary Christian Halloween tracts

When the kids came back from Trick or Treating this year there was
a piece of paper in their bag:




The Pumpkin

A young boy asked his playmate "What is it like to be a Christian?"
The playmate said, "It is like being a pumpkin. God picks you from
the patch, brings you in, and washed all the dirt off of you. Then He
cuts off the top and, scoops out all the yucky stuff. Then He removes
the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. and then He carves you a new
smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the
world to see."





Man those christians are one scary bunch! It reminds me of
Hannibal Lector cutting heads open, scooping out brains and then
carving your face with a knife. Nice.

A google search on the tract finds links at gopusa.com

(google cache) and raidersnewsupdate.com
(google cache) which appears to have just republished the article by April Shenandoah (Can that be a real name?) Check out those sites -- it is a gold mine for loony Christian opinions like STAR WARS FILMS PROMOTE NEW AGE MESSIAH

perl interface to lifelines

I've started hacking a perl interface into lifelines so reports don't have to be written in lifelines scripting language.

Until it is far enough along to check it cvs, grab an early snapshot from http://www.nozell.com/marc/lifelines/

i-zimbra was up for 353d 22h 00m

Well it had to end. i-zimbra a whitebox Pentium 200 running Red Hat 7.1 was up for 353d 22h 00m when a snow-induced power failure was out longer than the UPS system could handle.




When it rebooted this morning, i-zimbra was ranked at #14 for tuxtime.dk's Current Top 100 uptimes for Linux machines. It now is #35 on the All times Top 100 uptimes for Linux machines list and #52 on the All times Top 100 uptimes.

RKS Marketing & Web Design -- reputable marketing company or spamhaus?

Hmm, I just got some more Unsolicited Commerical Email (UCE) from middletownhealth.org again. Sheeh, and this is after I called and left a message for "Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor" by calling (845) 342-0000.

Again I gave them a call (~8pm EST), but they office was closed. I left polite voice mail that told them that spam/UCE was not a good way to advertise their company and asked to be removed from their list and for them to email me.

Then I decided to give RKS Marketing & Web Design (http://www.rksmarketing.com/) a call at (952) 417-7040 since they hold the copyright of the website design. The receiptionist forwarded
me to 'Rog' (sp?) who informed me that they create similar website for over 200 doctors offices and send out millions of pieces of mail on their behalf. I informed him that I live more than 500 miles away from both middletownhealth.org or northrocklandhealth.org. He said I must have signed up for their free newletter which I told him was not possible since I've never lived anywhere near there.

I have run a genealogy mailing list that has a New York State focus and have a number of relatives in the Orange County area, but none would have used my email address, even by accident. I asked that my email address be removed as well as my domain, nozell.com, be put on their banned email list. We'll see if I get more junk mail from them or not.

I've sent email to:

info@rksmarketing.com, href="mailto:info@middletownhealth.org">info@middletownhealth.org,
info@northrockland.org
pointing them to these webblog entries:

• 
  Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - The Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers
  
  



• href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/spam/2002/10/13#2002-10-13-another-spamming-doctor">
  Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Another Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers
  



• 
  RKS Marketing & Web Design -- reputable marketing company or spamhaus?
  

The funny thing is if you go a google.com search on either href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=northrocklandhealth">northrocklandhealth or href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=middletownhealth">middletownhealth
my weblog entry is the first hit!

I did some googling on 'href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=rksmarketing">rksmarketing'
and see that they use extremetracking.com to analyse their website hits. Take a look at the href="http://extremetracking.com/open;geo?tag=rstieg">geographic breakdown of hits and notice all the 1, 2, 3 page requests from all kinds of different countries. I wonder if people are looking at their page in response to some spam. One from Brunei, two hits from Saudi Arabia and Thailand, three from Indonesia.

verticalresponse.com reputable mailing list marketing company or spamhaus?

A few years ago I bought a new PC from a large computer manufacturer and dutifully registered with them using a web interface and provided them with a particular email address so I could track who they sold it to. I own my own domain name and have it setup so anything(at)nozell.com gets forwarded to my default address.

So I've gotten tired getting junk mail to this particular account -- there are over 150 messages in just the first 20 days of October. Most of the messages have a message about click here to reply to this
message and be removed from the mailing list. The most common one from the href="http://www.verticalresponse.com">verticalresponse.com list. Since a lot of spammers use this trick to find 'live' email addresses, I was hesitant to remove the address that way. Since thier website looked reasonable and provided a phone number I called up on Friday (17-Oct-2002) and asked the nice woman on the phone to remove the email address. I told her how I track who sold my email and she had no idea how my email make it from the large computer manufacturer to their mailing list but assured me that she would take off the list. I mentioned that some of the email didn't have their removal notice and said that they just send out the email from lists provided by their
customers and the customers should always have the notice.

Well, it is the weekend and I'm still getting spam to that account, albiet none with the verticalresponse.com message. I'm wondering if verticalresponse.com is just feeding me a line or what. The companies still spamming me are: thesuperspecialsales.com, tremendousbuys.com, summertimedeals.com, greatoffrs.com (yes with the funky spelling), c0olmail.com (with the l33t spelling), and everydayoffers.com.

Here is what the junk box holds for that address:

 144     Oct 19 reply-34872443- ( 117) Check It Out Nortans Software!
 145     Oct 19 Tremendous Buys ( 316) Know what your family does online
 146     Oct 19 ScreenSaver     ( 198) Free Haunted House Screen Saver
 147     Oct 19 GreatDeals      (  81) Important Pet Halloween News
 148     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 149     Oct 19 EveryDayOffers  (  38) Double your Download Speed and get Free Software
 150     Oct 19 Cool Mail       ( 792) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 151     Oct 20 Tremendous Buys ( 198) For the Lip Plumper: Full Pouty Lips - A s Seen On NBC Today Show
 152     Oct 20 Kate            ( 218) Order Confirmation
 153     Oct 20 Super Best Deal ( 790) Friend, Government Secured Certificates That Pay You 16%, 18%, up to 50%!!
 154     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to 80% - Free Shipping Offer
 155     Oct 20 Cool Mail       (  92) Friend, Printer Cartridges - Save up to  80% - Free Shipping Offer
 156     Oct 21 The Super Speci (  73) Friend, Prescriptions with Privacy

Lotus Agenda is dead, long live Chandler

I had almost forgotten about Lotus Agenda when I saw a pointer to Mitch Kapor's blog where he talks about his new open source project PIM, Chandler, that is 'in the spirit' of Agenda.

Way back in the late 1980s/early 1990s I worked in the then DEC/Digital VMS (now OpenVMS) development group and PCs where first showing up on engineer desktops. Microsoft Word 2.x and Lotus Agenda were pretty much all it was used for. The nice thing about Agenda was you could just dump in random notes and it would semi-automatically index, sort and categorize them. So a "email Rich project functional design doc" would make a todo entry under email, link to Rich's email and also be searchable by 'functional design doc'.

I have hundreds of email messages (RMAIL files read by evolution, mutt and just plain Mail), status reports (in Microsoft Word format as required by my management chain), notes to myself (simple ASCII text), personal and business contacts (Palm Pilot synced to Evolution Address Book as well as the corporate LDAP). To be able to search for all references to "Joe FieldPerson at onsite at BigCompany" would be a godsend.

OSA Foundation mailing lists: http://www.osafoundation.org/mailing_lists.htm

Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Another Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers

It seems that this is the week for Doctors Who Spam(tm)! As with
the spam from Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C, this looks like Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. has signed up with marketing company that uses Unsolicited Commercial Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email.

Friday afternoon I gave Jeffrey A. Spina's office a call and talked to the receptionist who told me the doctor was too busy and took down my name, email and phone number. No call back yet.

This spam from mail@MiddletownHealth.org
looks remarkably similar to the info@northrocklandhealth.org
spam. See
for yourself.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business. Here is the contact info from http://www.middletownhealth.org/

 
        Middletown Health Online
        54 Dolson Ave.
        Middletwon, NY 10940 (Yes, they misspelled the name of the town, Middletown)
        Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor
        E-Mail: info@MiddletownHealth.org
        Phone: (845) 342-0000
        Fax: (845) 342-0000

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please don't do business with spammers. Thanks!

Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours from where Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. practices and have never signed up for any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@MiddletownHealth.org Fri Oct 11 16:01:29 2002
Return-path: <mail@MiddletownHealth.org>
Delivery-date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:01:29 -0400
To: marc@nozell.com
From: mail@MiddletownHealth.org
Reply-To: mail@MiddletownHealth.org
Subject: Middletown Health Online
Message-Id: <20021011200853.A67ADB5AD7@relay3.datapeer.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
Lines: 286

Middletown Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 

"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."

Middletown Health Online, as a free community service, 
broadcasts health information to many thousands 
of local residents to help improve quality of life 
and to provide assistance when having to make 
important healthcare decisions. 

We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe 
simply click http://www.MiddletownHealth.org/subscribe.shtml

Jeffrey A. Spina, D.C. - Editor
www.MiddletownHealth.org

    ==================

AOL USERS: LINKS MAY NOT BE "CLICK-ABLE" FOR YOU.
PLEASECOPY AND PASTE LINKS TO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW.

    ==================

Featuring:

1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain
2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise
3. Just the facts - Eye Safety
4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?
5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics
6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News
7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal
8. Health Department Updates 
9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?

    ==================

1. Laughing has got to be good for you!
A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%. 
Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?
UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their 
pain labs. How about working there?

Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water. 
Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their 
hands submerged 40% longer. 

The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes 
in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little 
more, and that has to be good.

Excerpts reproduced with permission from 
Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine 
www.cwfmonline.org

Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - The Spamming Doctor -- Don't do business with spammers

Okay yesterday, I got two copies of the spam below -- one to my personal email address and an identical one to an old work email address.

So I visited their website and called the number listed there. The receptionist who answered as happy to take my call and yes this was Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C.'s office. She was surprised about the spam (technically Unsolicited Commerical Email/Unsolicited Bulk Email) but said the Doctor, Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C., 'does things like that sometimes'. I explained that the doctor's junk mail was in the same category as porn site ads, viagra or penis enlargers. I told her that it was not a polite advertising policy and like most of the people who got the email likely weren't even within 100 miles of Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C.'s office. I volunteered to talk to the doctor but Dr. Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. was busy and left my phone number and email.

No reply.

So I'm going the public shaming route.

Did you get this spam too? If so give him a call (try collect) and politely explain why spamming is not a good way to drum up business. Here is the contact info from http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/doctorsoffice.shtml

Phone:  (845) 354-7621
Fax:    (845)354-7627
E-Mail: info@northrocklandhealth.org
Mail:    Pacesetter Park Rt. 202
         Pomona, NY 10970

Please remember that the only reason people spam is because some
small fraction of the recipients actually respond to the ad. Please
don't do business with spammers. Thanks!

I wonder if Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine
(www.cwfmonline.org), Foot Levelers, Inc. (www.footlevelors.com), and
www.ERA.com appreciate being mentioned in this spamming doctor's junk
mail?

---

Here is the spam I received twice. Be aware that I live about 4 hours
from where Dr. Jay H. Schwartz practices and have never signed up for
any sort of medical mailing list.

From mail@northrocklandhealth.org Mon Oct 07 13:12:24 2002
Return-path: <mail@northrocklandhealth.org>
Envelope-to: marc@localhost
Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:12:24 -0400
[deleted]
Received: from [12.109.176.230] (helo=relay3.datapeer.com)
        by slammer.netnation.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1)
        id 17ybO3-000101-00
        for marc@nozell.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:09:43 -0700
Received: from localhost (unknown [66.111.253.14])
        by relay3.datapeer.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CE82B60E4
        for <marc@nozell.com>; Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
To: marc@nozell.com
From: mail@northrocklandhealth.org
Reply-To: mail@northrocklandhealth.org
Subject: North Rockland Health Online
Message-Id: <20021007172533.2CE82B60E4@relay3.datapeer.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Oct 2002 13:25:33 -0400 (EDT)

North Rockland Health Online: All kinds of healthy "stuff" 

"Just keep banging until someone opens the door."

North Rockland Health Online, as a free community service, 
broadcasts health information to many thousands 
of local residents to help improve quality of life 
and to provide assistance when having to make 
important healthcare decisions. 

We apologize if you received this e-mail in error. To unsubscribe 
simply click http://www.northrocklandhealth.org/subscribe.shtml

Jay H. Schwartz, D.C. - Editor
www.northrocklandhealth.org

    ==================

AOL USERS: LINKS MAY NOT BE "CLICK-ABLE" FOR YOU.
PLEASECOPY AND PASTE LINKS TO YOUR BROWSER WINDOW.

    ==================

Featuring:

1. Family Tips - Laughing away the pain
2. Light & Easy - Beating the blues with exercise
3. Just the facts - Eye Safety
4. Question-of-the-month - Doctors keeping you waiting?
5. Feature Article - Growing up with orthotics
6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News
7. If selling your home - It's all about curb appeal
8. Health Department Updates 
9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?

    ==================

1. Laughing has got to be good for you!
A new study indicates laughter may reduce pain as much as 40%. 
Can something that make you feel good stop you from feeling bad?
UCLA Medical Center researchers continue testing this in their 
pain labs. How about working there?

Apparently kids are asked to submerge their hands in ice water. 
Those watching "funny videos" where able to keep their 
hands submerged 40% longer. 

The notion that humor might produce healing enhancing changes 
in the body is gaining respect. Regardless, we can all laugh a little 
more, and that has to be good.

Excerpts reproduced with permission from 
Chiropractic Wellness & Fitness Magazine 
www.cwfmonline.org

wifistatd-0.1

I ran across this little app today. One of those things I was going to code up but never got around to doing.

Linux User #6436

Are you a registered Linux User?





I am and so should you.

Proxy Patch for tuxtime

Some of the systems that I run tuxtime on are behind firewalls that
block port 4242. To work around that I've patched tuxtime-0.2.2 so
you can specify a new host:port that isn't block. Using an ssh port
forwarding tunnel is the simplest thing.

The patch lets you set in /etc/tuxtime.conf

        proxyserver = localhost
        proxyport   = 4242

and then from a console setup an ssh tunnel like this:

        ssh -f -C -L 4242:data.tuxtime.dk:4242 you@external-system.com sleep 36
000

Grab the patch from here

Open Source Web Design (OSWD)

I stumbled across the Open Source Web
Design site where the encourage you to use their HTML design.
Isn't the shameless borrowing of HTML code the way most people learn
how to design their sites? Their browsing interface is a little slow
going, but if you have some time you can find some nice templates.

I like clean designs like href="http://www.oswd.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=973&referer=/search.php?type=desc
ription&searchstring=poly">Poly.
I've adapted the design to href="http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/">blosxom's new
templating style. Try it out.

Blosxom 0+5i

Rael released a new version of
blosxom. While he
didn't take my suggestion of adding a way to tag entries with icons,
he did rework blosxom to walk down through directories looking for
entries. At least I can keep entries organized a bit more.

Currently my categories are:

top
   |-- blosxom/
   |-- eye-candy/
   |-- family/
   |   |-- kids/A>
   |   ·-- 
marc/
   |-- geocaching/
   |-- linux/
   |   |-- apps/>
   |   |-- config
/
   |   |-- debian
/
   |   ·-- t
ips/
   ·-- us/
       ·-- civil-liberties/

A tip of the hat to the Linux command href="ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/">tree which generated
the initial HTML for the above.

MyTrailerPark.com -- cruel, about amusing

One for the folks at work is buying a new house out in the country and
pointed everyone to his site to take a look. He set a redirect to
MyTrailerPark.com

Civil Liberties

The href="http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200209/msg0
0009.html">Associated
Press' (mirrored on href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/">Dave Faber's excellent href="http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/">'Interest
ing
People' mailing list)list of the way American civil liberties are
being threatened. This should be required reading on 9/11.

chroot debian environment on a Red Hat system

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade

I didn't write the HOWTO, but href="http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/DebianChrootInstall.html">
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/DebianChrootInstall.html
is nice description on how to do it.

Using TuxTime.dk to track uptime

The folks at tuxtime.dk have put
together a website and tools to let powergeeks compete for the longest
uptimes. I'm almost in the top 50 thanks to old i-zimbra!

They also have these swell dynamically generated banners

• src="http://tuxtime.dk/cgi-bin/uptime.pl?computerid=32612&image=006"
  alt="homebrew uptime"> homebrew (new Deb
  ian woody system, new home web/file/mail server)



• lt="i-zimbra uptime">
  i-zimbra (old whitebox P200/64Mb Red Hat 7.1 system, former home web/file serve
  r)
  


• lt="elephanttalk (laptop) uptime">
  elephanttalk (Compaq Armada M700 laptop (usually Red Hat 7.3, sometimes
  W2k)

blosxom-0+4i for debian

I'm in the process of becoming a certified href="http://www.debian.org/devel">debian developer and then
making blosxom an href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages">official debian
package. Until all the paperwork is done, href="http://www.nozell.com/marc/debian/">here is my first attempt
at packaging
blosxom up.
Constructive criticism is welcome.

Revoking a seven year old pgp public key

I'm in the process of becoming a debian developer and one thing they
require your public gpg key uploaded to one of the href="http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/">keyservers. No problem, fairly
straight forward to do. However, I have an href="http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=nozell%40wildcat.mv.com&op=i
ndex">old
key from back in the stone age of 1997 with an email address that
is no longer used. Simple to just generate a revocation key and
upload that, right? Unfortunately gnupg doesn't support revoking that
old key and pgp 5.0 doesn't know about revocation period. So I ended
up importing the secret key into gnupg and then changing the
'username' from 'Marc Nozell' to 'please use href="http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC30441D2">marc@noze
ll.com
instead'. Just FYI.

Anyone else remember downloading the href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/cryptography_article-4070.html">PGP
v2.0 from a dialup BBS located half the country away and hoping
that it wasn't illegal to obtain strong href="http://www.cryptome.org/">encryption from across state
lines?

Blosxom patched to support icons (take 2)

In answer to my question in the href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/marc/2002/Jul/9#blosxom-with-icons">pre
vious
announcement, another href="http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/">blosxom
fan, DJ Adams suggested a
better patch.

Here is the updated
patch or the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-patched-for-icons-better">updated patched
version itself.

Thanks DJ!

Geocaching

I recently picked up a href="http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexVenture/index.html">Garmin
Venture GPS and started playing the href="http://www.geocaching.com">geocaching 'game'.

The idea is you visit href="http://www.geocaching.com">geocaching.com and print out or
download into your GPS the location of a cache. Then using the GPS
navigate to the cache and see whats inside. Typically there is a log
book and some trinkets that you can swap out for whatever trinkets you
brought. Some caches have disposable cameras so you can take your
picture and leave for the maintainer of the stash. The last cache we
found was a multi-cache site in a cemetery. The first
latitude/longitude location was a grave site where you did some simple
math on the person's birthdate and that goes into part of the next
latitude/longitude location and so on until you get to the final
cache.

In the last
week the boys and I have found href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=7183">fhref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=6641">ohref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=158">uhref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=5008">r
geocaches all within 30 miles of home. They can't wait until next
weekend to find some more!

Blosxom patched to support icons

I modified blosxom (version 0+4i) to support icons associated with
each entry.

My first thought was to key off of the file name
(announcement:blosxom-with-icons.txt,
linux:linux-in-20-websites-or-less.txt, etc) but went with adding an
HTML fragment to the end of the first line.

So the first line of this entry is:

Blosxom to support icons <img src="/marc/blog/marc/data/topicannouncements.g
if" alt="Announcement: ">

Here is the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-0+4i.patch">patch or the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-patched-for-icons">patched version itsel
f.

The one strange perl thing is I wanted to collapse the following two lines:

                my ($icon) = ($title =~ /(<img.*>)/);
                $title =~ s/(<img.*>)//;

into

                $title =~ s/(<img.*>)//;
                my ($icon) = $1;

but $icon is always set to the day of the week put in $1 from
the line:

        my($dw,$mo,$da,$ti,$yr) = ( $mtime =~ /(\w{3}) +(\w{3}) +(\d{1,2}) +(\d
{2}:\d{2}):\d{2} +(\d{4})$/ );

Anyone know why it doesn't work?

Higher Linux uptime

I didn't have the heart to shutdown i-zimbra

$ uptime 
 10:10pm  up 248 days, 23:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.15, 0.04, 0.01

High Linux uptime

My no-name white box (P200, 64M, Red Hat 7.1) had 231 day uptime when
I had to shut it down to add more memory and get ready to replace it
with a home built AMD 1.8G running debian 'woody'. The previous white
box system was a P486/33 with 24M running Red Hat 6.2. A 6x speed bump
then 9x. In a few years will the next one be a 21.6G monster?

$ uptime 
  9:36am  up 231 days, 11:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00

Teaching SpamAssassin about the Microsoft KLEZ virus

Adding lines like the ones below does a pretty good job about tagging
the KLEZ virus as spam. It does miss some of the KLEZ variations
because the KLEZ_CONTENT is slightly different.

$ grep -i klez /usr/share/spamassassin/*
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_IFRAME            /iframe
 src=3Dcid:/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_IFRAME           Frame u
sed by the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_CONTENT           /TVqQAA
MAAAAEAAAA/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_CONTENT          Content
 of part of the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_IFRAME              10.0
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_CONTENT             10.0

Teaching SpamAssassin about the Microsoft KLEZ virus.

Adding lines like the ones below does a pretty good job about tagging
the KLEZ virus as spam. It does miss some of the KLEZ variations
because the KLEZ_CONTENT is slightly different.

$ grep -i klez /usr/share/spamassassin/*
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_IFRAME            /iframe
 src=3Dcid:/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_IFRAME           Frame u
sed by the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_CONTENT           /TVqQAA
MAAAAEAAAA/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_CONTENT          Content
 of part of the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_IFRAME              10.0
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_CONTENT             10.0

Upgrade to autoconf 2.53, gettext

Newer versions of lifelines
requires autoconf 2.50 or later and
(maybe) a more recent gettext to build. Upgraded to autoconf 2.53
(autoconf-2.53-5.noarch.rpm) and gettext 0.11.2
(gettext-0.11.2-2.i386.rpm)

Upgrade Mozilla 1.0 and Galeon 1.2.5

Now that Galeon has released a version that works with Mozilla 1.0 now
is the time to upgrade both packages. See href="http://ftp34.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/i386/">http://ftp34.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/i
386/
and galeon.sourceforge.net

xmlto pdf file.xml doesn't work well on Red Hat 7.3

A tip from #linuxdoc regular gleblanc suggested upgrading to rawhides
newer href="http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xmltex">xmltex
and href="http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=passivetex">passiv
etex.
Stock Red Hat 7.3 has: xmltex-20000118-8 and passivetex-1.12-3,
rawhide has one minor version later.

.procmailrc configuration for spamassassin

I put filters for mailing lists that are for the most part spam-free
above these to entries and those lists that are spam-heavy below it.

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P -c /usr/share/spamassassin

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

SpamAssassin

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
o conf prerequisites_policy ask
install Mail::SpamAssassin
quit

gnobog (a Gnome Bookmarks Organizer)

gnobog is a nice
little bookmark app. Since it use galeon, mozilla, konqueror and
other random web browsers, this lets me keep my bookmarks in one
central location.

palm pilot integration

Red Hat does not yet set up a link for /dev/pilot which href="http://www.jpilot.org">jpilot, href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/pilotlink.html">pilot-xfer,
etc use by default.

        ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
        chmod 666 /dev/pilot

more network configuring...

Set the hostname to be something reasonable instead of
localhost.localdomain by using 'neat'.

Also disable starting eth0 on boot -- it takes a while to timeout when
I'm booting in a wireless mode.

GTK.pm/Net::pcap installed

In order to get Wellenreiter v1.3 (a wireless monitoring tool) to run,
it requires GTK.pm installed. Since I no longer trust 'perl -MCPAN -e
shell' not to screw up my perl installation, I downloaded
Gtk-Perl-0.7000.tar.gz and Net-Pcap-0.04 from href="http://www.CPAN.org">CPAN and manually installed it. Note:
Net::Pcap need to be built this way: perl Makefile.PL
INC=-I/usr/include/pcap LIBS='-L/usr/lib/pcap -lpcap'

Setting up printers (home)

Red Hat 7.3 ships with both LPRng and CUPS, the latter has a nice
web-based configuration tool.

• /sbin/service cups start



• Switch to CUPS permanently using the new 'alternatives' method
  (nice bit of borrowing from debian)

  /usr/sbin/alternatives
  --config print




• Use web interface on href="http://127.0.0.1:631">http://127.0.0.1:631

filesystem configuration

Created mount points:

mkdir -p /NT /CD1, /CD2 /ExtraHomes /mnt/xx /mnt/xy /mnt/ontour /mnt/ibgzk
o /mnt/after7

Added:

/dev/hda1               /NT             vfat    uid=500,gid=500,defaults       
 0 0
/dev/hdb1               /CD1                    vfat    uid=500,gid=500,default
s       0 0
/dev/hdb2               /CD2                    vfat    uid=500,gid=500,default
s       0 0
/dev/hdb3               /ExtraHomes     ext2    defaults        0 0
//192.168.123.100/marc  /mnt/mdesktop   smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=m
arc,password=SECRET,defaults    0 0
//192.168.123.100/xx    /mnt/xx         smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=x
x,password=SECRET,defaults      0 0
//192.168.123.100/xy    /mnt/xy         smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=x
y,password=SECRET,defaults      0 0
//ontour.zko.dec.com/public /mnt/ontour smbfs   uid=500,gid=500,auto,user,exec,
rw,username=nozell/americas,password=SECRET 0 0
//ibgzko.zko.dec.com/nozell /mnt/ibgzko smbfs   uid=500,gid=500,auto,user,exec,
rw,username=nozell,password=SECRET 0 0
//16.29.96.110/sharedmedia /mnt/after7 smbfs    auto,ro,username=guest,password
=SECRET 0 0

Configure web server

• Need to set the document root to be my person ~/public_html.
  
  

  DocumentRoot "/home/marc/public_html"

  
  ...
  

  <Directory "/home/marc/public_html">

  
  
  
• Set email contact:
  
  

  ServerAdmin marc@nozell.com

  
  
  
• Change location of cgi-bin:
  
  
  

      ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/marc/cgi-bin/"

  
  ...
  

  <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">

  
  
  
• Setup bloxsom blogger by copying blosxom into ~/cgi-bin/ and editing locati
  ons to point to /home/marc/public_html/
  
  

Precision Timekeeping

Configure NTP to get the time from systems that are available from 1)
internet, 2) inside corporate firewall, 3) inside corporate external
lab firewall and 4) timeserver of DSL provider.

To the file /etc/ntp/steptickers add the one very long line:

harbor.ecn.purdue.edu tick.mit.edu ntp01.cca.cpqcorp.net ntp02.cca.cpqcorp.net 
alpha1.ispworks.com shell.mv.net

Turn ntp on at boot time:

chkconfig --level 45 ntpd on

Red Hat Network

re-register with Red Hat Network.

rhn_register

And then go to http://www.redhat.com/network
and adjust the 'entitlements'. Finally then ready to actually update
with 'up2date'. Quite a number of updates just a week after Red Hat
7.3 was released...

superuser access

visudo

and added marc to the list.

Initial Network reConfiguration

First I merged in the settings from the old /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt
which wasn't enough to get the Orinoco wireless card working. After
using 'neat' to configure an eth1 wireless device, it came right up.

In /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt

• Comment out the section that looked like this:
  

  
          essidany,*,*,*)
          INFO="Any ESSID"
          ESSID="any"
          ;;
  

  
  Changed the lines in the "Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA)"
  section:
  

  
          MODE="Managed"
          ESSID="04502a"
          KEY="s:4502a"
  

  
  
  
• Also used 'neat' to allow users enable/disable eth0/1 device.
  

Install Red Hat V7.3

I wanted to upgrade to fix a galeon problem, unfortunately the Red Hat
upgrade didn't fix the problem. Probably because it didn't upgrade
any ximian'ized packages, so I did a fresh install.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1.9G 142M 1.6G 8% /
/dev/hda2 21M 5.7M 14M 28% /boot
/dev/hda6 981M 876M 55M 95% /home
/dev/hda3 2.9G 2.0G 852M 70% /usr
swap 512M

GNU/Linux in 20 websites or less

There are a growing number of folks where I work who are getting on
the linux bandwagon. Most of them are coming from a commercial UNIX
background and have questions about how Linux is different, wondering
where to get information, news and software.

Here is my short list of Linux websites for commercial UNIX refugees:

1. 
   Free Software Foundation -- This
   organization, started by Richard
   M. Stallman (better know simply as RMS) and where the acronym GNU
   (GNU is Not UNUX and is pronounced Guh-News) comes from.
   



2. The GNU General
   Public Licence (aka GPL) and href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html">Frequently Asked
   Questions about the GNU GPL are two very important pages you
   should read and understand. When people talk about 'free software' in
   this context, they are refering to the freedoms the software is
   licensed under, not the lack of a pricetag. The GPL is the prime
   reason why Microsoft is having a hard time competing with
   GNU/Linux/Open Source software.
   
   
3. 
   The Linux Documentation Project has
   a number of href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Compaq-Remote-Insight-Board-HOWTO/">
   excellent HOWTO
   documents, longer and
   FAQs on quite a
   number of topics.
   



4. 
   Slashdot (also known as
   /.) -- News for
   Nerds, Stuff that Matters. This is a great place to
   get a feel for what the hot topics of discussion is in the
   open source/free software world. You can join their daily
   mailing list of news items.
   



5. 
   freshmeat.net -- when you
   need to look for open source software. This is an package
   announcement repository. This is very useful if you sort of
   know what you need (say "web log analysis") but don't know
   which packages are available. You can join their daily mailing
   list of new/updated packages.
   



6. 
   sourceforge.net -- This
   is a site that provides all the web tools needed to manage an
   open source project -- mailing list, CVS code repositories,
   bug tracking, download servers, etc. Their search engine is
   also very useful for finding particular open source packages.
   Not everyone informs href="http://freshmeat.net">freshmeat of new packages or
   projects.
   




7. 
   Linux.com -- A good general
   purpose starting point for information.
   



8. 
   openprojects.net --
   While not really a usefull website, they host the very useful
   openprojects IRC chat network. Point a IRC client to
   irc.openprojects.net.
   Useful/interesting channels are #linuxhelp and
   #linpeople
   



9. Major Linux Distributions:
   
   
   
   
   1. 
      Red Hat -- North America,
      worldwide, primary commercial vendor.
   
   
   
   2. SuSE -- Strong European
      presence, known for high quality and very complete distribution
      .
      First distribution to ship six(!) CDs.
   
   
   
   3. debian -- non-commercia
      l
      distribution; has a strong university and world wide following.
      Very
      nice package manager. One simple command to find, download and
      install software for example apt-get install apache.
      To keep
      a system updated to the latest versions, simply apt-get upd
      ate;
      apt-get -u upgrade
   
   
   
   4. Mandrake
      -- North America, worldwide, focuses more on the
      desktop and ease-of-install. A good alternative to
      Red Hat for the novice user.
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. linuxiso.org --
    "Fresh ISOs like Mom used to Burn". If you are looking to
    download linux installation CDs, this is the one place to go.
    If you don't have broadband, just buy some cheap cds (under
    $5) from one of the many sponsors. Also check out some of the
    niche, but interesting, linux distributions like href="http://brlspeak.net">BrlSpeak for blind users or href="http://k12ltsp.org/ ">K12LTSP which is lets you boot
    diskless workstations from an applications server and is
    perfect for a K - 12 education environment.



11. Linux Weekly News -- Nice
    roll up of the week's news for the Linux community.
    




12. newsforge.net --
    more news from the open source/Linux/BSD/GNU/etc world with a
    more journalistic slant.



13. thelinuxshow.com
    -- Listen to the weekly Tuesday night webcasts of various open
    source/Linux/BSD/GNU/etc pundits talk about the weeks news.
    
    
    
14. Of course the best server hardware to run Linux on can be
    found here: HP and href="http://www.compaq.com/linux">Compaq. Also see the
    technical white papers on href="http://activeanswers.compaq.com/aa_asp/Solution_List.asp?str=6-10
    0-225-1">Linux
    solutions.
    
    
    

Blocking ads the simple way

I ran across this little site that describes how to use features in all web browsers to dramaticly cut down on the number of ads you see while surfing. Check out How To Block Ads (& Web Bugs) Without Extra Software. Basically you edit your /etc/hosts file (or equivalent) to direct ad sites to 127.0.0.1.

Using ssh and VNC for customer demos

First connect to the demo system and start a vncserver running
there. If you are already logged in, simply vncserver. Or be
fancy and do this from your desktop: ssh your@demo.labsystem.net
vncserver

Now setup an encrypted port redirection using ssh from my desktop to
the demo system. VNC uses port 5901 for desktop :1, port 5902 for
desktop :2, etc.

$ ssh -f -C 
        -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 \
        -l marc demo.labsystem.net sleep 7200

Now run a vncviewer on the local machine. Be sure to use the command
switches below which give better performance.

$ vncviewer -compresslevel 9 -encodings "tight copyrect" localhost:1

Now have your field person also create a ssh port tunnel (of course
they need an account on the demo system as well) and also run
vncviewer. Now both of you can control the keyboard and mouse for the
system. The performance can be surprisingly good if you have a least
T1 speeds. Across a slower DSL, it is usable, but you feel the delay.

Using ssh to pierce corporate firewalls

I work for a company that has firewall that only allow out http, https and most importantly, ssh. While at my desk I want to check mail home IMAP4 mail, VNC to our lab systems on an external network, check in on an IRC chat room or even surf to some sites that I don't want corporate IM to know about. (I'm not talking porn, but the nanny software frequently blocks sites as 'hacker sites' like the nmap site which I do have a business reason to be viewing. Ugh.)

So I use ssh's port redirection to do all this.


ssh -f -C \
-L 1234:mail.myisp.com:143 \
-L 6667:irc.openprojects.net:6667 \
-L 8080:127.0.0.1:3128 \
-l marc homemachine.dslprovider.com sleep 7200


Then I configure my mail client to connect to localhost:1234 for IMAP, chat client to use localhost:6667 and web browsers to use localhost:8080 for proxy. Just so I don't have to go reconfigure all the apps that need to use a proxy (mozilla, netscape, galeon, konqueror, Ximian's red-carpet, Red Hat's up2date, nautilus and various command line apps that use http_proxy like debian's apt-get, etc) they always use 'localhost:8080' for the web proxy. When I want to switch back to using the corporate firewall, I run this instead:


ssh -f -C
-L 1234:mail.myisp.com:143
-L 6667:irc.openprojects.net:6667
-L 8080:proxy.whereIwork.com:8080
-l marc homemachine.dslprovider.com sleep 7200

Using ssh and VNC for customer demos

First connect to the demo system and start a href="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/">vncserver running
there. If you are already logged in, simply vncserver. Or be
fancy and do this from your desktop: ssh your@demo.labsystem.net
vncserver

Now setup an encrypted port redirection using ssh from my desktop to
the demo system. VNC uses po
rt 5901 for desktop :1, port 5902 for
desktop :2, etc.

$ ssh -f -C \
        -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 \
        -l marc demo.labsystem.net sleep 7200

Now run a vncviewer on the local machine. Be sure to use the command
switches below which give better performance.

$ vncviewer -compresslevel 9 -encodings "tight copyrect" localhost:1

Now have your field person also create a ssh port tunnel (of course
they need an account on the demo system as well) and also run
vncviewer. Now both of you can control the keyboard and mouse for the
system. The performance can be surprisingly good if you have a least
T1 speeds. Across a slower DSL, it is usable, but you feel the delay.

Running Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel on my Linux laptop

Codeweaver's Crossover Office product is amazing! It is based on WINE and steps through "installing" the Microsoft office suite from the distribution CD onto a Linux system. It takes care of faking out of file system so it has a C: drive named 'fake_windows'. The performance a a little but slower than running natively under Windows 2000 professional on the same hardware, but acceptable. The fonts are a little off, but I haven't yet installed all the fonts from Microsoft's website. Go buy it. It is definitely worth the $54.95.

Three companies, one cubicle

If everything goes the way Mike and Carly says it will, I'll have worked for three major computer vendors while sitting the in the same office with the same telephone number. Just about as many OSes, too.

Integrating blosxom with Evolution

Ximian's Evolution, an Outlook look-alike for Linux, is now my primary email client and can display RSS headlines on its 'Summary' page. To have blosxom (version 0+3i) to display, create a newsfeed with a URL like this: http://www.nozell.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/xml. Don't get it wrong since Evolution 1.0.2+ doesn't seem to have a way of changing a newsfeed once created. (Hint: edit ~/evolution/RDF-urls.txt)

kio_fish: Use ssh to access files via konqueror

I stumbled across this while messing with debian's apt-cache search. kio_fish is a KDE extension that provides a way to browse a remote directory usingssh. There is no need to setup an FTP or web server on the remote system as long as you have an account there. Just point konqueror to fish://user@home.system.com.

BTW, depending on your KDE installation, you may need to also install liblcms

Take a look.

Destination Imagination

This weekend was our state's regional Destination Imagination. After months of meeting, is it great to see the two teams work together as a group during the competition and perform a great presentation!

blosxom-0+2i patch

blosxom 0+2i incorrectly sorts entries. Sent Rael a patch to use mtime instead of ctime.

Eye Candy/Icons

I stumbled on a bunch of cool icon/background sites. http://www.iconfactory.com/ http://www.Electriconland.com/ http://www.a-graphics.nl/ http://www.zensmile.com/ http://www.gifart.com/ http://www.ianmc.com.au/right.html http://ligatur.jet.st/funstuff.html

Customizing blosxom with style(sheets)

The Blosxom doc mentions customizing the look and feel using style sheets and mentions blosxomEntry, blosxomDate, blosxomTime, blosxomTitle and blosxomBody. This is what my initial stab at an head.html looks like:

        <head>
        <STYLE TYPE-"type/css">
        <!--
        BODY {background: #FFFFFF}

        .blosxomEntry {background: #ffffff; color: #000000}
        .blosxomDate  {font-family: Sans-serif,Verdana,Geneva,Arial; font-size:  15pt; color: #000000}
        .blosxomTime  {font-family: sans-serif, Times, braggadocio, fixed}
        .blosxomTitle {font-family: Sans-serif, arial}
        .blosxomBody  {text-decoration: italicize; color: #666666}         -->
        </STYLE>

        </head>

First entry

Blosxom looks
nice and simple. Unfortunately I always misspell it.

Write on the laptop, publish on website

I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I've wrote a one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use ssh-agent, you won't even need to type your ssh password more than once a day.



#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com:~/HTML/marc/blog/

This is my first posting.

This is my first bloxsom posting. Nice and simple.

Write on the laptop, publish on website

I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I've wrote a
one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use
ssh-agent, you won't even need to type your ssh password more than
once a day.

#!/bin/bash
rsync --exclude '*~' -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com
:~/HTML/marc/blog/

First entry

Blosxom looks
nice and simple. Unfortunately I always misspell it.