Jekyll 1.0.0 Upgrade (09 May 2013)
I just finished upgrading wlair.us.to Blog to Jekyll 1.0.0. That was nightmarish…
xbiff with Gmail (02 May 2013)
It is possible to use xbiff with Gmail. It involves fetchmail and IMAP.
Server Move (25 April 2013)
I have moved wlair.us.to from Meskarune’s personal VPS (maharani.meskarune.com) to the Hacker Haven server (tesseract.hackerhaven.net). Beware that in some cases, it may take 24–48 hours for the new DNS record to propagate.
x11-ssh-askpass HOWTO (15 April 2013)
I discovered this in OpenBSD. There, by default, at the beginning of an X session, it asks for the SSH key passphraseif there is a key. It does this with x11-ssh-askpass. I installed it on both of my boxes (the SlackBuild of x11-ssh-askpass intended for Slackware 12.1 still works as of Slackware 14.0), and borrowed this from OpenBSD’s default ~/.xinitrc:
Slackware on volunteer (23 March 2013)
A while ago, I installed Slackware on my old box. At one point, I accidentally switched to -current because I chose the slackpkg mirror too carelessly.