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Handling iCalendar attachments with mutt and when
var dzone_title = "Handling iCalendar attachments with mutt and when"; The other day I received a meeting request sent from Microsoft Outlook. This is the first such request that I’ve received since...
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Aqua: Advanced Query Using Abook
var dzone_title = "Aqua: Advanced Query Using Abook"; I like using mutt for my email, and abook for my contacts. They’re simple but powerful programs designed to work together without locking you into...
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Aqua not, and functional musings
var dzone_title = "Aqua not, and functional musings"; “What’s missing from aqua?” “Not” “Naught’s missing? That’s great!” “No, you need to add NOT.” “‘Add not’ means leave it alone — it’s perfect.”...
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Keyboard-centric URL launcher for rxvt-unicode
var dzone_title = "Keyboard-centric URL launcher for rxvt-unicode"; The xterm replacement rxvt-unicode (otherwise known as urxvt) has a lot more going for it than fully supporting unicode text. It’s...
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Per-CPU usage stats for FreeBSD revisited
var dzone_title = "Per-CPU usage stats for FreeBSD revisited"; Since the last time I wrote here about the pcpustat utility: I submitted it as a FreeBSD port, and got it accepted. I submitted its...
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Synthesis 2.2: full compatibility for Unix, .NET, Synergy/DE 9.5
var dzone_title = "Synthesis 2.2: full compatibility for Unix, .NET, Synergy/DE 9.5"; Synergex will soon release Synergy/DE version 9.5, which includes a released version of Synergy for the .NET...
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GetLessMail without getmail
var dzone_title = "GetLessMail without getmail"; Scanning my incoming email with my own Bayesian spam filter can take a bit of time, especially if I have a lot of incoming messages or they contain...
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Enhanced url-picker extension for urxvt
var dzone_title = "Enhanced url-picker extension for urxvt"; I’ve made the following enhancements to my keyboard-centric URL pick-and-launch extension for urxvt. Scroll down for the download links....
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Taming the wild unicode
var dzone_title = "Taming the wild unicode"; This post serves a dual purpose: Introduce a new utility, urxvt-selfont, which allows you to select a font for rxvt-unicode (urxvt) Share some tips and...
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Lean, Mean, Black and Green
var dzone_title = "Lean, Mean, Black and Green"; A dark and minimal Gtk 2.0 theme I use FreeBSD as my workstation of choice, and I like the old school green on black. That’s easy enough to accomplish...
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Put this in your pipe and smoke it, urxvt
var dzone_title = "Put this in your pipe and smoke it, urxvt"; Most desktop systems provide means for copying text from one application to another, and X11 is no exception. In most windows, you just...
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Bidirectional text display for urxvt
var dzone_title = "Bidirectional text display for urxvt"; I received an email message a while back in which the signature included the author’s name in both Latin and Hebrew characters. I was pleased...
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Urxvi — keyboard navigation for rxvt-unicode (urxvt)
var dzone_title = "Urxvi — keyboard navigation for rxvt-unicode (urxvt)"; I really like the rxvt-unicode (urxvt) terminal window for X11. I’ve been extending it a lot for my own needs. There’s...
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feedmbox: pipe feeds to email
var dzone_title = "feedmbox: pipe feeds to email"; I’ve been using Newspipe for a while now to send my subscribed feeds to an email folder, but there are a few things I don’t like about that...
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Oi: Object-integer mapping for Synergy/DE
var dzone_title = "Oi: Object-integer mapping for Synergy/DE"; One of the most important features about the (new since version 9) object-oriented syntax in Synergy/DE is that it’s not a purist’s OOP....
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url-picker extension for urxvt now handles wrapped URLs
var dzone_title = "url-picker extension for urxvt now handles wrapped URLs"; Craig Balding emailed me about a “feature” that had already plagued me for some time in my url-picker extension for urxvt....
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url-picker can now count backwards
var dzone_title = "url-picker can now count backwards"; Antoine Amarilli emailed me to suggest an enhancement to my url-picker extension for urxvt: number the URLs in reverse order, so that the most...
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feedmbox updated to grok RSS 1.0
var dzone_title = "feedmbox updated to grok RSS 1.0"; Not too many sites use RSS 1.0 any more. It’s a completely different standard than RSS 2.0 — even the abbreviation stands for something different:...
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Managing simultaneous events in Synergy/DE UI Toolkit
var dzone_title = "Managing simultaneous events in Synergy/DE UI Toolkit"; I’ve written before (PDF) about the unique event model of the Synergy/DE UI Toolkit. For historical reasons, these events are...
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Vim syntax highlighting for Synergy/DE
var dzone_title = "Vim syntax highlighting for Synergy/DE"; It’s been more than a year since John Cottrell of BusinessCraft sent me his vim configuration files for Synergy/DE syntax highlighting....
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