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<article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201002cmus-project-restarted.html" class="u-url">cmus project restarted</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201002cmus-project-restarted.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2010-02-27T17:02:00-06:00" title="2010-02-27">2010-02-27</time></a></p>
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<h1>cmus project restarted</h1>
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<p>Just a quick note. The cmus project has been restarted recently, and they are working on a new release. This one should have better integration with things like PulseAudio.</p>
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<p>Good news!</p>
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<p>Go check out <a href="http://cmus.sourceforge.net/">http://cmus.sourceforge.net/</a> for more details.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/200912making-life-easy-over-flaky-links.html" class="u-url">Making life easy over flaky links</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/200912making-life-easy-over-flaky-links.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-12-28T17:12:00-06:00" title="2009-12-28">2009-12-28</time></a></p>
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<h1>Making life easy over flaky links</h1>
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<p>I tend to work over VPN, which we know can be flaky at times, Since I work on server, I spend a lot of time ssh’ed into hosts. I was getting tired of the lost time having to restart what I was working on every time the VPN dropped (which could be as much as every 15 minutes on a bad day). While I already used screen to handle the lack of terminals (Alas, I am forced to use a Windows laptop to VPN in with), I thought there could be an easier way to do this.</p>
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<p>The way I tend to work is that I ssh into a jump server, fire up screen, then ssh into the hosts I need to work on, and fire up screen on those hosts.</p>
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<p>Now, this is nice, but it can get a bit tiring to do it all over
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again. So, I found a tool called
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<a href="http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/">autossh</a> which will automatically restart your ssh session if it drops for any reason but a graceful disconnect. (Well, there are others, but this is basically it). Combine this with your ssh-agent, and you can re-attach with easy. I also use <a href="http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain">keychain</a> to help manage my ssh-agent when I log in.</p>
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<p>Now that the connection will come back, I need a way to re-attach to my screen session, or if there is not one, to start one for me. To do<br>
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that, I have this is my .bashrc file:</p>
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<pre><code>test -x $STY && screen -xR
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<p>This will check to make sure that we are not already inside a screen session on the local host (<em>test -x $STY</em>), and if we are not, then either attach to an existing screen session or start a new one (<em>screen -xR</em>)</p>
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<p>I have define this function in my .bashrc to spawn a new ssh connection in a separate screen window:</p>
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<p>Easy stuff</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/200905search-your-email.html" class="u-url">Search your email!</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/200905search-your-email.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-05-25T18:05:00-05:00" title="2009-05-25">2009-05-25</time></a></p>
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<h1>Search your email!</h1>
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<p>One of the features that most of the pretty GUI mailers offer you is the ability to search your email. While this is not a feature I use regularly, it is one which when you need it, you really need it. I have used <a href="http://grepmail.sf.net">grepmail</a> in the past, but it slow for me (it scans the mail files every time) and the big thing for me is that is only supports <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox">mbox</a> files, and I use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir">maildir</a> since I use <a href="http://software.complete.org/software/projects/show/offlineimap">offlineimap</a>.</p>
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<p>I recently found <a href="http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/">mairix</a>. While I have not been using it long, so far I am very impressed with it. It uses an index to speed up the search process, and it smartly adds only new or changed files to the index. The first indexing run was only a few seconds on my archive of almost 15,000 mail messages. I have it scheduled to update the index every 15 minutes, and I never notice the load this will put on the system.</p>
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<p>To integrated mairix with mutt, I wrote a quick little script to search from within (or without) mutt:</p>
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<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
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#===============================================================================
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# FILE: mailsearch.sh
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# USAGE: ./mailsearch.sh
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# DESCRIPTION: search mail stuff
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# OPTIONS: ---
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# NOTES: ---
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# AUTHOR: Don Harper (), duck@duckland.org
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# COMPANY: Don Harper
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# VERSION: 1.0
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# CREATED: 05/25/2009 07:03:30 PM CST
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rm -rf $HOME/Maildir/mfolder
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echo " t::word
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Match word in the To: header.
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c::word
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Match word in the Cc: header.
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f::word
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Match word in the From: header.
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s::word
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Match word in the Subject: header.
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m::word
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Match word in the Message-ID: header.
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b::word
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Match word in the message body.
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d::[start-datespec]--[end-datespec]
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Match messages with Date: headers lying in the specific range.
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z::[low-size]--[high-size]
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Match messages whose size lies in the specified range.
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n::word
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Match word occurring as the name of an attachment in the mes-
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sage. Since attachment names are usually long, this option
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F::flags
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Match messages with particular flag settings.
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s meaning seen,
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r meaning replied
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f meaning flags
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prefixed by a - to negate its sense.
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The a:: search pattern is an abbreviation for tcf:
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Match words
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The word argument to the search strings can take various forms.
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~word
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Match messages not containing the word.
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word1,word2
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This matches if both the words are matched in the specified message part.
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word1/word2
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This matches if either of the words are matched in the specified message part.
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substring=
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Match any word containing substring as a substring
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substring=N
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Match any word containing substring, allowing up to N errors in
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* an extra letter
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* a different letter.
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^substring=
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Match any word containing substring as a substring, with the
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matched word.
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d::start-end
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rm -rf $HOME/Maildir/mfolder
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<p>Then, I bound this to “S'’ from within mutt:</p>
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<pre><code> macro index,pager S "!mailsearch\n"
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<p>This will give me a reminder of the search command, run the search, and then give me the search results in a new mutt session.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/200904wifiroamd-intel-prowireless-3945abg-and-fedora.html" class="u-url">wifiroamd, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, and Fedora</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/200904wifiroamd-intel-prowireless-3945abg-and-fedora.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-04-17T18:04:00-05:00" title="2009-04-17">2009-04-17</time></a></p>
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<h1>wifiroamd, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, and Fedora</h1>
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<p>One of the things that has annoyed me about Fedora has been the decision to switch over to using <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</a> to manage all network connections.</p>
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<p>Now, on the service this has a lot of advantages. A lot of work has gone into it, and it just works for a vast majority of the installations out there. They have made it so the move from wired to wireless and back can be done without the user doing anything. They have also seamlessly tied in Dial-Up Networking if you still need a modem or use a wireless modem. They even have two-click access to your VPN which is pretty cool.</p>
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<p>All these are things which are very good for Linux users. The biggest drawback to all this? The need for a user-space program to manage the non-hardwired connections. Which means that in order to be able to have any network running besides the good old twisted-pair copper, you have to have a little applet running as you, and it has to have a systray somewhere to display. Which means you have to be a) logged into the system and b) you have to be running a window manager which supports having a system tray. Now, Fedora gives you lots of choices for the second part now days. You have <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a>, <a href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a>, <a href="http://www.xfce.org">XFCE</a>, and <a href="http://lxde.sf.net">LXDE</a>. All are perfectly usable window managers. But, they still require you to be logged in to X. And, <a href="http://www.duckland.org/archives/2006/07/31/window-managers/">I do not use any of them</a>.</p>
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<p>So, what is a cli-loving Fedora user to do? Well, there is this great program called <a href="http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/wifiroamd/">wifiroamd</a>. It will handle the same basic tasks that NetworkManager handles. It will automatically configure your wifi interface and connect to the wifi networks or the locate hardwired NIC if it cannot. You can configure it to run scripts per connection, so for example, you can change your firewall rules for different networks (shields down at home or the office, but up full at the coffee house), or you could bring up your VPN connection when you start using a given wireless network.</p>
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<p>One tip I picked up from the author was that if you have multiple AP’s in range, an you want to select once AP over the other, is under the <em>/etc/wifiroamd/connections</em> directory, simply link the AP info you do not want to the one you want:</p>
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<pre><code>ln essid:my_home_ap essid:bad_ap
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<p>where <strong>essid:my_home_ap</strong> is your AP with the keys and other information you want, and <strong>essid:bad_ap</strong> is the one you do not want to connect to. My neighbors have some very powerful AP’s which have a habit of showing up high than mine, but I have no problem with them now.</p>
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<p>I have been using this set up under Fedora since FC6 days, but when I upgraded to F10, this stopped working. wifiroamd would try to scan for an AP, and not find anything. The change, it turns out, is that when I switched from using the iw3945 driver to the native iwl3945, wifiroamd could no longer see the wireless NIC due to the wpa_supplicant process, but NetworkManager could. Simply stopping and disabling wp_supplicant and NetworkManager, and wifiroamd started working again! I am a happy camper again.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/200901cmus-a-music-manager-for-the-terminal.html" class="u-url">C*MUS - A music manager for the terminal</a></h1>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/200901cmus-a-music-manager-for-the-terminal.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-01-12T17:01:00-06:00" title="2009-01-12">2009-01-12</time></a></p>
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<h1>C*MUS - A music manager for the terminal</h1>
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<p><a href="http://cmus.sf.net/">C*mus</a> is an advanced music juke-box for *inx and Window operating systems. It can handle the modern audio file formats: FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis, MP3 , Wav, AAC , MP4, .mod, .s3m, .mpc, mpp, .mp+, .wma, and .wv . It also can deal with many different types of audio output systems: ALSA, libao, ARTS, OSS, Sun, and WaveOut on Windows. The typical features of an electronic juke-box are supported like play lists and random/shuffle play, in addition to easily switching between playing from the library, an artist, or a single album with a simple keystroke.</p>
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<p>C*Mus is pretty painless to install from source. The website lists the build dependencies with links. There is no RPM .SPEC file on the web site, but you can use this <a href="http://www.duckland.org/files/cmus.spec">one</a>.</p>
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<h2>En-queuing</h2>
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<p>One of the features I really enjoy and use is the en-queue function. I tend to use this two ways. The first is when I am listening to a song, and want to listen to similar songs, I go find them in my library, and I queue them up with a simple keystroke. A dynamic play-list, if you will. Then, I can simply create a more permanent playlist from this temporary list.</p>
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<p>The second way is using the helper program cmus-remote to be able to queue up tracks from a different terminal, or from a script. My podcatcher program (bashpodder) will queue up the podcasts it just downloaded for me, so I can listen to them first thing in the morning.</p>
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<h2>Keystroke and CLI</h2>
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<p>C<em>Mus is developed to be driven via keystrokes. The default mapping is set up to be comfortable for those use are familiar with VI but, it is very easy to remap the keys to make it more comfortable. C</em>Mus will automatically save the current settings on a clean exit. The default mappings for selecting and updating views, moving through songs forward and backwards in small and large increments, adding to play list and queue lists.</p>
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<h2>Filters</h2>
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<p>One of the very powerful features is simple filters. You can set a filter for your 80’s Metal Bands or your Classical music. Many of the common tags can be used for filter on. Things like filename, artist, album, title, genre, discnumber, tracknumber, date (year), duration (seconds), and tag.</p>
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