This week's TechRepublic tip is Filter for unwanted mail and mailing lists with procmail, which goes into procmail recipes a little more in depth than last week's tip (size restraints on these tips sucks sometimes, so we end up with two-parters). Shows how to build recipes to delete mail you …

This week's techmail is Filter mail with powerful procmail, a brief introduction to using procmail. For those who don't get to use procmail, I feel sorry for you. Procmail is the best filtering system for email, bar none.

According to Michael Geist's blog, the Canadian DMCA... nonsense... is being delayed. I guess sending that email did more than just show me as a zealot, eh? Yeah, I'm pointing at you Adam. =)

Why wait for it to be introduced to raise a fit? Better do it before it becomes …

Today's TechMail is Get more e-mail flexibility with Fetchmail, which discusses the use of fetchmail. It doesn't go into too much depth, more of a primer on fetchmail than anything. I think an upcoming tip will discuss procmail a little bit more.

I read a moment ago on /. Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law and was horrified. The link is to this article on the Globe and Mail: A new copyright law is coming.

All Canadians need to do their part to protest this obscene piece of potential legislature. I'm not …

I don't usually take much interest or stock in anything the ZD family of sites put out, but there was a decent piece I read tonight, entitled Ten things you can do to help open source. It's an interesting read, and I've read similar articles in the past. I always …

A little late to the party here, but I just finished watching Sicko, a film by Michael Moore. I'm still astounded by what I saw. I sincerely thank God that a) I'm a pretty healthy individual (lack of exercise and such aside) and b) that I live in Canada. I …

Well, to put it bluntly, Safari butchers the visual editor in WordPress. No idea why. Really irritating, but on a whim I fired up both Camino and Firefox to do some edits and they worked fine. Then I disabled the visual editor in my account profile and lo-and-behold Safari doesn't …

This week's TechMail is pretty basic, but one of those "hidden gems" that the average person probably isn't aware of. Of course, it's one that the average person may not care about either but... regardless, this week's techmail is Manipulate process priority with nice.

While working on the Mandriva maintainer's database, one thing needed is an authentication token as a very basic safety precaution. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working and it looks like PHP's message digest hashing is off. Has anyone ever seen this before? Here's a quick demo:

% echo rpmctl …