mxw is a simple C irc bot. i've start it as a fun project (usually people write irc bots in perl or python), but currently it handles more and more functions. today i've added rss support (using libmrss) so that on the #frugalware channel mxw_ floods the users with package updates and blog posts ;-)

of course the whole code is still experimental, i hope this post will appear on #frugalware, too :)

distrowatch published an interview with me, maybe it's interesting :)

yesterday LGee, desco, voroskoi and me met each other. you can reach a few pictures taken by LGee here

hi

the newest development snapshots's fpms are ready, you can reach at you-know-where. no big changes, 4 new languages, more patches submitted to upstream (we now only use only a gcc-4.1.0 specific one) and so on

(maybe this is true for mutt(-devel) too, i'm not sure)

so. first you need a private key, there is a good howto about it here. then you need to copy gpg.rc (for example from /usr/share/doc/mutt-ng-20060402/samples/gpg.rc) to ~/.muttng, then add the following lines to your muttngrc

source ~/.muttng/gpg.rc
unset crypt_autosign
unset crypt_autoencrypt
set crypt_replysign
set crypt_replyencrypt
set crypt_verify_sig=yes
set pgp_sign_as="0xXXXXXXXX"

where XXXXXXXX is your keyid

for autmatic key downloading on checking signatures, add

keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

that's all :)

here. also the title is not exactly correct as probably a release candidate was tested :)

i've just set up bogofilter with mutt, it was sooo easy! :)

first you should collect some spam and ham (non-spam) to separate (Maildir) folders

then bogofilter -s -B ~/Maildir/spam/, bogofilter -n -B ~/Maildir/ham. the basic learning is done

to your procmailrc: :0fw | /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep :0: * ^X-Bogosity: Spam .Spam/

finally i've added a macro to my muttrc to be able to simply tell bogofilter it missed something (haven't noticed a spam): macro index S "bogofilter -Ns" (you can add a similar macro for "bogofilter -Sn" - "hey, this is not a spam" - if you want)

that's all :)

after a few days of work (and headache) we (me and janny) put togother a java-enabled version of the openoffice.org package. we built the development milestone (m163) of OOo, so it won't hit -current till 2.0.3 is released. ideally this should re-enable features like help and others which were missing since 2.0.0. at the moment the x86_64 packages are available, but janny will upload i686 ones soon, too

I've written a short howto about how to debug a pacman database error as I was asked many time to do so for others. So there it is, now i can say simply RTFM ;)

probably this is known, but i've just figured out how to get rid of grep when i use

foo |grep ... |sed ...

the magic command is

foo |sed -n '/^match/s/foo/bar/p'

if we're at it, you can even get rid of sed if you use bash and just want to do simple replaces like 1.0 -> 1_0:

$ pkgver=1.0
$ echo ${pkgver//./_}
1_0_0

two intereting tricks remained. the first is about deleting from a pattern to an another one (including both line)

$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne'
a
b
c
d
e
$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne' |sed /b/,/d/d
a
e

the last one is about deleting to the end of the file from a pattern:

$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne' |sed '/c/,$d'
a
b

ok, that's all for today :)

(other nice tricks here)