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

11/29 sent a ping to Mac DevCenter asking if they had made a decision

12/1/04 - Editor has approved article, now I need to write it.

• 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.

littlewing is back as of 11/26.

*get anon ftp working on server15

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

decided I'm going to convert 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

published on newsforge 11/4/04

*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.

sent message asking for status 11/29

sysadmin magazine has approved arfticle but does not have publication date yet, 12/1/04.

*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 liked idea and wanted an outline.

*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.

*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?

problem: where to get this published?

*article idea: vrrp for fun!

write up how to use keepalived for vrrp failover

submit to newsforge, keep it high-level?

*article idea: My Workstation OS: Mac OS X

for newsforge's little open submission request

focus on how mac os x makes life easy for a guy who uses linux at work

newsforge responded they already have someone writing this article 12/1/04.

*article idea: writing a real expect script

problem: so many expect examples aren't very useful, more toy than anything

write about how I developed my modem test script

give details on how to break down problem and really use expect

*article idea: making sure your processor configuration is sane with dmidecode, x86info, and /proc/cpuinfo

how to use those tools and what to check to determine if you are running correct kernel, have hperthreading turned on, etc.

try newsforge first.

newsforge approved article 12/1/04

*article idea: ssh tricks

specifically, how to use ssh port forwarding from inside the firewall to punch through in reverse.

another good one is the use of .ssh/config to locad port forwards, change server names, change user names.

*article idea: xfig power user's manual

why doesn't this exists? Heck, I could write a whole book on it.

cover everything from creating diagrams to layers to groups to alignment, etc.