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    • Mar 23, 2011
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    Review, Linux E-Mail,set up, maintain, and secure a small office e-mail server

    (this is a review that i originally posted somewhere on Slashdot, IIRC)

    Linux E-mail, Second Edition is a book written for Packt Publishing by I. Haycox, A. McDonald, M. Back, R. Hildebrandt, P.B.Koetter, D. Rusenko and C. Taylor. Linux E-mail contains

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    • Mar 12, 2011
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    How to create lists of WordPress posts from the command line

    WordPress is a great online publishing system. One of its strengths, as far as I am concerned, is the administration interface, which I find flexible, efficient and easy to use. However, sometimes even that interface isn’t flexible enough.

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    • Mar 3, 2011
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    MCG, the eMail Configuration Generator for procmail and mutt

    Many U*nix users with advanced email needs, a high load of email, and possibly a lot of addresses to keep separated, invariably come to procmail and to Mutt (but the MCG concept can be easily adapted to other MUAs: read on).

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    • Mar 1, 2011
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    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14

    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14 /img/flash_ad_spilling_from_firefox_to_kate.jpg
    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14 /img/flash_ad_spilling_from_firefox_to_kate.jpg

    . Just a few days after I had brought back my Fedora computer to life, the last updates in kernel, nVidia driver from RPMfusion and what not did to my Fedora 14 box (the same that was damn slow three weeks ago) what you see in these pictures,

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    • Mar 1, 2011
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    Update on, Why is my Linux so damn slow?

    About three weeks ago I became so fed up with the disgusting performances of my Fedora computer to make a public Help request: why is my Linux so damn slow?. I got plenty of help (90 comments to that post while I’m writing this one) and useful suggestions. Later this week I will reformat all those suggestions in a separate post aimed to complete Linux newbies, to help them to find get support faster when they find themselves in a similar situation.

    This page, instead, is a short status report,

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    • Feb 12, 2011
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    Help request, why is my Linux so damn slow?

    I’ve discovered Linux in 1995 and I have been using it as my only home/work operating system since then. I still love it and want to continue to use and promote it, but in the last 2⁄3 weeks it’s become almost impossible. In this page I explain why, hoping to get and collect useful suggestions.

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    • Nov 26, 2010
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    Create your Web database applications with DaDaBIK

    Create your Web database applications with DaDaBIK /img/01_dadabik_admin2.png

    Dadabik is Free Software that you can use (writing little or no code by hand!) to create PHP-based Web applications that even users with little previous experience can use to manage several types of (already existing) relational databases.

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    • Oct 21, 2010
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    How to automatically print or convert to PDF, MS Office or other formats OpenDocument files

    The script and tricks in the ODF scripting section of this website show how to create office-ready texts, presentations and spreadsheets automatically, in the OpenDocument format, which is a worldwide standards. This is all many people need to work today. Sometimes, however, it’s still necessary to either print those documents, or exchange them to somebody in other formats, like PDF or those of the older releases of Microsoft Office (newer releases of this program are already partially compatible with OpenDocument through free plugins, so if your partners have those versions they should really use those plugins, instead of bothering you with requests for drug-like, legacy file formats, but that’s another story).
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    • Oct 19, 2010
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    How to transform (almost) plain ASCII text to Lulu-ready PDF files, part 2

    This page gives a general overview of a flow for transforming ASCII files in print-ready PDF books. The reasons for setting up such a flow in this way are explained in the first part of this tutorial.

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    • Oct 19, 2010
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    How to transform (almost) plain ASCII text to Lulu-ready PDF files, part 3

    This is the core script I used to transform a set of plain ASCII files with the Txt2tags markup in one print-ready PDF file. Part 1 of this tutorial explain why I chose txt2tags as source format and Part 2 describes the complete flow.

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