Entries Tagged as 'geek'

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

GEEK: editing groups, using sudo

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Thursday, April 26th, 2007

GEEK: How to install a del.icio.us link cloud to a WordPress blog

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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

GEEK: Postalicious, dreamhost, and the case of the stripos function

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

GEEK: Thunderbird IMAP slow

I’m using Thunderbird (version 2.0.0.0) on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (1 GB Ram) running Mac OS X 10.4.9. When I connect to my account at fastmail.fm via IMAP, it frequently takes several minutes for each folder to open, and when I send mail, it often takes several minutes to copy the sent [...]

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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Geek: notes to myself

I'm trying to select and display some rows from a FrontBase table. I'm accessing the table via a python script, which talks to the database via a pyobjc interface to an Objective-C adaptor to FrontBase. “getSQLResultsDictionaryIter” is a method which returns an array of dictionaries containing the results. For example, this snippet: import objc import [...]

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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

GEEK: Open a webbrowser from a python script

webbrowser.py allows you to open a url in an external browser (such as Firefox) from within a python script.  However, if you don't have the BROWSER environment variable set, you will get an error. To get it to work you have to do the following: % env | grep BROWSER BROWSER=open export BROWSER

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