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Comment on Using OpenBSD’s OpenSMTPd for Email by LIAR

LIAR — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:03:08 +0000

Olá,

Thanks for the post, it helped me understanding the basics of OpenSMTPd works (even if the man pages already are very explicit).

I’ve just a little question about you sentence:
“My ISP (sonic.net) doesn’t let me use port 25, so I have to relay to their SMTP server to send mail”

In my case, it is exactly the converse: I can’t use anything else than port 25. It seems that OpenSMTPd cannot be configured to use no crypto. Am I right?

Comment on tmux, a BSD alternative to GNU Screen by Vince

Vince — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:30:59 +0000

C-z is a terrible choice. Apparently you never use Berkeley
job control. I use C-z *all the time* to suspend my current
process, do something else, and then “fg” to resume. The
problem is that most of the control keys are used by one
application or another. I have been using screen on BSD and
am about to try tmux. C-a has been a minor inconvenience,
because of it being the emacs beginning of line command,
although I am primarily a vim user. C-b is the emacs
command to move the cursor back one character and the vi
command to go scroll back a page. Although, there are
alternatives, such as the arrow keys for those functions, so
C-b probably would be less of an inconvenience for me than
C-a has been.

Perhaps an ALT key, such as M-s (s for screen controls),
M-a, or M-b would be a good choice.

Comment on Krav Maga vs Boxing: first impressions by paul

paul — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:11:03 +0000

my comment about most martial arts is Vee Arnis Jitsu

Comment on tmux, a BSD alternative to GNU Screen by Ramkumar Ramachandra

Ramkumar Ramachandra — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:13:35 +0000

tmux is fantastic! I’m an Emacs user, and I’ve found that C-z is the most comfortable and unobtrustive escape for me.

Comment on Simple Python Twitter Search API Crawler Class by john conroy

john conroy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:53:37 +0000

Thanks Niall — damn useful script
I need something similar and I’m glad I found some Python for a similar problem.

Comment on tmux, a BSD alternative to GNU Screen by bllbb

bllbb — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:11:16 +0000

what i like with tmux is the speed. screen always been damn slow.
otherwise they’re really very similar. i just enabled screen-like bindings and i feel like i’m using screen really.. just faster.. and some things like title detection work better

Comment on Apache mod_rewrite RewriteRule with query string by Sean

Sean — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:43:51 +0000

Ahh, perfect! I was just wondering why it wasn’t working!

Comment on Building a Fixie by Rob Spencer

Rob Spencer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:29:39 +0000

Hello mate, just starting my first project. The only thing I’m having trouble getting my head around is converting my standard rear wheel to a fixie, any advise?

Comment on mkpath() – `mkdir -p’ alike in C for UNIX by guru

guru — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:17:55 +0000

thanks, saved my time

Comment on Krav Maga vs Boxing: first impressions by STeo

STeo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:50:33 +0000

the only thing I would like to know is how they train/spar effectively.

How do you replicate a real life scenerio? I like the idea of Krav Maga…but I worry about the potential for it to be ineffective because you are unable to really use the extreme force moves you learn in sparring in the same way you would boxing/thai boxing sparring etc.

I mean you can hardly elbow strike your training partner on the bridge of the nose or break his knee cap in a training session.