I would like to know what you think is the best OS for an IBM Thinkpad 600E? At the moment i am using KDE 3.3, but it does fail every once in a while and i cannot figure out how to get the WLAN up and running. So once i get it going, that will be my next question.

To reduce the amount of SPAM being seen by my wife and myself, I have been using GreyListing / SpamAssassin on our personal domain for several months. So far this combination has been very effective for us.  This combination is stopping over 99% of spam (up to 99.8%).

I wrote a simple address book in sh as an introduction to sh for people new to programming or shell scripting

Usage looks like this:

$ addressbook add
Enter data:
Some Person, Ph: 0412 345 678
Entry added
$ addressbook search person
Some Person, Ph: 0412 345 678
$


Code follows.

Just a quickie: this is an init script I wrote recently for a game server. Comments and suggestions appreciated :)

At the last meeting we covered a few vim commands so people can expand their vim repertoire. Here are some quick notes from that presentation.

Recently I set up a computer with Mandriva Linux, for a lady in her 70s. She is now moving to Longreach. I'd like to find someone in the Longreach area who would be willing to give her a hand while she gets used to using Linux.

I've written a bash function that sets up passwordless SSH logins for you, feel free to use it in your scripts.

Attached is a script that asks some questions and runs the function. Just unzip it and run it and you'll be set up in no time.

This is related to an earlier blog I wrote about connecting my W41H up. I have recently bought a new W52T and found the setup is identical so I though I would elaborate on my earlier post within the context of a Gentoo install. 

I had a latin1 collated MySQL 4.1 db that contained both English and Japanese text. I dumped the data and then tried to migrate it into my new MySQL 5.0.26 installation. Of course being a bit lazy I did not take the time to check things out properly and was not surprised to find that all Japanese text had become mojibake. I set off on a mission to fix the problem.