- I use procmail to manage my incoming mail.
- bin/hotmail
My fiancee used to use hotmail. I use mutt. I hate html mail. This
script dumps the html into text using lynx -dump to do the conversion.
It also fixes up the headers. Add the following procmail rule to call
it:
# hotmail sucks
:0 w:.procmail.lock
* ^From:.*@hotmail.com
* ^Content-Type: text/html
| $HOME/bin/hotmail | formail >>$MAIL
I don't have to spawn lynx to view her mail and I can quote the
original message while replying to it.
- I also run postfix on my 7.3 laptop
at work.
It's configured to send all mail locally and I also spool my
mail locally so I can read and reply to it offline.
- I also use my own homerolled simple calendar
program.
See the comments at the top of the program for documentation on the
calendar file format and how to use the program. I also run this
at job which generates a .plan from
my weekly calendar and copies it to the corporate file server.
- I use this simple http URL fetcher to grab stuff
from the command line.
I wrote it many years ago, before I'd ever heard of wget. I still
use it because the args for grabbing a single file are simpler than
wget's, although I guess I could just convert this into a wget wrapper.
But since it's not broke, I won't fix it.
- I use a few software packages to post binaries
over usenet.
- This is a simple command line client for the
tinyurl.com redirection service.
- I recently moved onto a debian host for my mail. I don't admin the box
(yay! freedom!) but it didn't have elm installed, from which I liked
the nfrm and frm utilities.
So I whipped up a bit of shell and awk to replicate their functionality
which is to check for new mail or just list a mailboxes contents.
- I also have my own checkalias to go through
my .mutt.aliases.
- I use this shortie to check the spelling of one or
more words from the command line.
- To monitor network traffic rates on an interface, I wrote this. I call it
netwatch.
- Old, old scripts to get the simple month day year date for
today and tomorrow.
The tomorrow script was written before I used systems with GNU date.
- A little manager program to figure out who did how much work in a
BitKeeper repository. Requires BK, of course. I call it
repo-report.
- A little program to update keys in existing BitKeeper repositories.
You save the email message with your keys in say /tmp/keys
and run bk newkeys /tmp/keys in
any repo needing keys. It checks for errors pretty rigorously.
- I hate counting the number of chars in a string or word on the screen.
So I wrote count.
- If you manage a lot of machines and have to watch the disks, you may
find this multiple ssh launcher and
near-full disk reporter useful.
- If you have to log into a remote box using ssh and the connection is
often dropped by a firewall, you may find
keepalive to be useful. It echos a
null character to the screen after one minute of idle time.
- If you work at a *nix terminal, you probably don't have a stock ticker
installed. I don't. So I wrote stockwatch
and stockcheck to watch my stocks for me.
Stockwatch just calls stockcheck every two minutes. They just grab CSV
quotes from Yahoo! and compare the current price against your limits.
If your limit is exceeded up or down, it pauses xmms if you are running
it and sounds an alert. Change the script to configure your sound.
- This is a program to demonstrate changing the text color in an xterm by
sending the correct escape sequences.
Here is a less verbose version cribbed from
this bash prompt
howto.
- This script sorts though some Ontario electrical power consumption stats
I grab from the
IMO website.
It spits up the
record power hours by cost and by usage.