An interesting article on speeding up roaming profiles under Samba and Windows 2000/XP — though the steps involved are a little more effort than I’d like. I wish Windows were just a tiny bit smarter about it. Or maybe Samba could be smarter. Either way, when it takes more then two minutes […]
Crooked Timber gets into it again this week, with some insightful commentary on naturalism and ethics. I’m firmly in the “no ought from an is” camp, and I think that watching the other camp struggle to take the odious consequences out of naturalism is good fun. And I was happy to see someone […]
xmutex, on Metafilter, points to a fun optical illusion. Not for the squeamish.
So I often find myself wishing for a ‘cut’ command that used Python split() behavior and Python slice notation. For some reason, I’m often munging text files in the shell. So, I’ve written a little script that satisfies my Pythonic urges. Here it is: pycut.
The sysadmin for the server is a nice guy, and I can’t really blame him for not wanting to make changes to the way the whole system processes mail, as there is bound to be someone in the department who would find a problem with any change. Anyway, it’s not so hard to install spamassassin, if you’ve got a reasonably up-to-date perl installed.