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- Evan Esar

100 Must-Read Books

100 Must-Read Books

A great list of book every library should have.

Posted by Jake Covert on 5/14/2008, lunch time
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Terminal tip: easy email attachments

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/19/terminal-tip-easy-email-attachments/

This is a nice short little article.  I’m always forgetting how to do mail attachments with mailx at work, and this gave me nice reminder: uuencode

The magical command in this one is uuencode, which is used to encode and decode binary files and can be used on just about any file type. The two arguments in the command above define the name and location of the source file and the name the file should have when it’s received. The parenthetical statement at the beginning combines the results of the echo and uuencode commands which are then piped (|) to the mail command.

So, remember folks:

(echo "This is the message body";uuencode [file_location] \
[file_name] 
) | mailx -"Subject line here" \
someone
@adomain.com

Posted by Jake Covert on 4/20/2008, mid-morning
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Mac OS X 10.5: Secondary DNS Configuration

A article I’m linking to here, so I remember to read.

Posted by Jake Covert on 2/26/2008, evening
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Coda reviewed

Shawn Blanc has a very nice coda review:

http://shawnblanc.net/2008/coda-the-one-window-wonder/

Posted by Jake Covert on 1/25/2008, evening
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Hardballs: How To Mind Control Customer Service Reps

http://consumerist.com/341815/how-to-mind-control-customer-service-reps?source=RSS

How To Mind Control Customer Service Reps

GREAT! article.  “These are not the droids you are looking for….”

Posted by Jake Covert on 1/10/2008, late at night
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Curious Inventor - Guides : Surface Mount Soldering

http://www.curiousinventor.com/guides/Surface_Mount_Soldering/101

Posted by Jake Covert on 1/9/2008, terribly early in the morning
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Trajan and the Movies needs some space…

http://www.goodiebag.tv/episodes/06_trajan_is_the_movie_font.htm

Posted by Jake Covert on 12/16/2007, evening
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Craft brewing ingredients shortage in Michigan

WDET’s (local NPR station) Detroit Today had an article yesterday regarding the upcoming shortage on brewing supplies.  Guess hops and 2-row malt are getting harder to find.  Or at least more expensive.

MP3 store here.

Posted by Jake Covert on 12/14/2007, terribly early in the morning
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