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Port 25 problem – SMTP email server not responding – solution to being blocked by ISP (SBC Yahoo! DSL)
Recently Thunderbird couldn’t send email anymore, giving this error: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server mail.serafinistudios.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator. A…
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QemuX. The power of Qemu in your hands.
QemuX. The power of Qemu in your hands. QemuX claims to be a powerful UI (User Interface) for the Qemu CPU Emulator by Fabrice Bellard. QemuX is designed for Mac OS X. As qemu currently only runs as a Terminal App, a Cocoa application for managing configurations and simple launching of a foreign Operating System…
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HOWTO: use grep to transform company, address, phone, web into CSV format
Grep pattern for the day: (.*)r(.*)r(.*), ([A-Z]*) ([0-9]*(-[0-9]*)?)r(P: (.*)r)?(F: (.*)r)?((.*@.*)r)?((www.*)r)? This will take a list in the form of: Company Name Address City, State ZIP P: 123-123-1234 F: 123-123-1234 email@example.com www.example.com where the phone, fax, email and website are all optional and allow you to then reorder into a nice CSV format with a replace:…
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Kristin’s new private journals book – Words with Wings
Kristin just published a neat new 64 page book featuring pages from her past 10 years of journals. Check it out! Complicated Octopus Bookstore – Lulu.com Welcome to the Complicated Octopus Bookstore! Kristin Serafini has created Complicated Octopus to publish her private journals. Please visit http://www.complicatedoctopus.com to see more of Kristin’s journal pages & tips.…
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Up in MI for New Years
Kristin and I made it up to Petosky, MI for the start of our Fun-Filled Fantastice Family Reunion of ’04/’05 with Kristin’s mom’s side of the family. Should be fun. Although I might suggest next time someplace warmer and less snowier. At least the inn we’re staying in has a decent fast wireless connection. Weee!…