NewIdea

• article: describe how to set up mutt, osx, and fastmail.fm for a total remotely-stored email solution.

10/21 sent message to Mac DevCenter editor (O'Reilly) asking if interested in mac/mutt/fastmail article.

11/20 sent outline to Mac DevCenter, waiting to hear back if they want me to write article

• set up automated nightly backup of my wiki to my laptop

actually probably use ncftp to pull whole website.

• set up automated backup of server15 to both blur and littlewing?

littlewing is down and blur is going away. consider external HD instead.

*get anon ftp working on server15

might be too much work, move ftp files to http instead?

decided I'm going to cnvert all the downloads to http: don't know if ftp will ever be set up, and that way I avoid all the firewall problems.

*delete old mail inbox on server15

clutter

• article: del.icio.us extensions

pasta

nut.ritios.us

extri.pitios.us or whatever the heck its called

submitted to newsforge 10/21/04

*article: rss for stuff other than news articles

ebay searches

c'l searches

flickr comments

wiki changelogs

bugs

cvs?

your bank balance?

bruce schneir's blog

bugtraq and other security announcements

freshmeat and other software release announcements

cisco secuirty advisories

(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_psirt_rss_feed.html)

weather

grouphug.us

gov't feeds

nasa updates

*article: REST api and how it works with del.icio.us

add some other examples

*article: ipmi w/ example of dell 1750

accepted by sysadmin mag, deadline 11/15

submitted to sysadmin mag 11/15, waiting for approval.

*article fragment: embedding rss feeds into phpwiki pages

also look at feedburner, etc.

*article: using a camphone effectively

maybe for Popular Photography magazine?

*figure out how to sync fastmail addr book w/ mutt addr book on mac os x.

no idea at all on this one.

*article idea: converting your office admin to linux

based on what I did at the office

openoffice

firefox

*article idea: setting up lm_sensors on an unknown motherboard

use my experince with the SuperMicro 370DER system

tracking down the hardware

getting valid numbers out of sensors

writing sensors.conf

using sensors-detect

*article idea: the politics behind setting up a DR site

how to negotiate contract

stuff that better be in contract (like A/C specs)

managing disputes

*article idea: insane .mailcap hacks

canonical: use aalib to convert pictures into text on the terminal

expand this to larger idea of turning arbitrary data into text and the advantages of doing that. Write about all my mailcap hacks and use this image to text one as the supreme example.

Gave rough outline to Linux DevCenter on 11/20. Editor replied he liekd idea and wanted more details.

*article idea: awk: it's not dead yet

use my ipmi init script as an example of how awk is still the best choice for many scripts where you don't need to heaviness of perl

proposed to newsforge 11/22, but they did a similar article 6 months ago. MAybe find somewhere else to run it.

*complain to pobox about sony email rejections

email from Jeff @ Sony is getting rejected due to invalid HELO. pobox seems to be saying that's part of spam filtering and I can turn it off, but I have HELO checking off in spam settings and it still happens. Either that's a bug or they are doing separate layer of checks before spam checks where that gets caught.

11/20 - pobox says this is fixed by setting 'bad HELO' to ignore in spam filtering. However, I did this and still isn't fixed.

11/22 - tested again and appears to be working now.

*article fragment: skateboard tech

talk about longboarding - boards, trucks, wheels, and especially bearings. Especially go over selecting bones reds for my last set.

could expand to general tips & tricks article? skating in nyc? lowdown on longboarding pothole-style?