Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : August 2012

Slowly reclaiming my email

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Published on: August 27, 2012

I have been working for about a month now to try to reclaim my email. Every time I get spam, I have black listed the domain, I have updated more to my filters, etc, slowly I am gaining my email back, I have gone from 100 spam messages getting thought the spam filter a day[…]

My Twitter feed

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Published on: August 21, 2012

To my friends here that might also be following my Twitter feed, you might be asking what is up with all those stupid posts I been making as of late, well once a day I will pick a “fortune” from the unix program fortune and posted it on my Twitter account. For those of you[…]

Memory in Linux

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Published on: August 19, 2012

I remembered that Linux was good with memory, but this is just more then I expected, I have 8Gb of memory on my tower. I have 3 copies of Eclipse and a copy of Amarok, and many other programs open right now and when I run free I get mpop@home:~$ free total used free shared[…]

A view of the desktop

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Published on: August 19, 2012

This will give you an idea of how things are setup on on the physical screens, the prior screen shot shows the pager nearly in the middle of the screen but when you look at this picture you can see it is on the right hand side of one of the screens.

A screen shot of my towers dual monitor Slackware/FVWM setup

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Published on: August 19, 2012

What a day

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Published on: August 19, 2012

Just a bit of posting, today I spent the AM sleeping in, something I don’t get to do, I had to move my music lesson to a later time so I could sleep in. Then when I got home I did more work on my Linux Laptop to get FVWM to look the way I[…]

FVWM is starting to look how I want it to look.

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Published on: August 18, 2012

Thanks to thomas_adam in the FVWM chat room on the FREE NODE irc network, I have gotten FVWM much closer to looking the way I want it to look. See the Screen Shot below. If you want to mess with my config file for FVWM (but as Thomas said it has alot of FVWM 1.x[…]

Slackware and FVWM

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Published on: August 13, 2012

I am resetting up my Linux systems, and I am going back to my roots in Linux going back to Slackware and will be using FVWM for my windows manager, I already know how I am going to set it up. I am going to do a 4×4 pager with the pager in the upper[…]

Cleaning up a lot of my social network sites

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Well I have started to clean up my LinkedIn account might take a few days, deleted a bunch of “contacts” in there, last night I cleaned up my Delicious account. Going to try go get all the social network stuff I have going organized correctly. Also I am not going to be one of those[…]

Some updating of my site and others

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Not much, the “biggest” part of the update is linking to my FB profile, my G+ profile, and linking in my tweets from Twitter. Also I dug up my old Delicious account and cleaned up the links in it a bit, going to start using it again. Next on my task list for internet todo[…]

Remember When

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Remember when blogs were the thing (kind of funny to ask that on a blog) well I have moved my RSS reading from a program to Google Reader so I can not only read it on my computer but also I installed the Google Reader on my Android Phone so I can keep up with[…]

Roku 3

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Published on: August 9, 2012

Well it has been over a month now since I ditched Direct TV in favor of the cheaper Ruko. I am enjoying it, plus the savings of $80 a month is nice, I have had to put a block on my cell phone against their “customer retention” number as they are calling 10 times a[…]

Banning IP addresses from my site

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Published on: August 9, 2012

I check my spam filter (for my blog) every few days, I will look at the IP address if I see a common thread (such as 95.65.32.x today) I just straight out ban the whole region, my largest group ban was banning 112.111.x.x I am not worried about preventing people (that can read my site)[…]

Linux Email Clients

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Published on: August 8, 2012

Any one know of a good Linux email client that will DELETE not just mark for deletion email when it deletes? the mail client evolution does not do this, so when I check my email on my cell phone I see all the spam I had deleted because evolution FAILS at deleting. So I need[…]

FVWM

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Published on: August 5, 2012

I know it “old” but I still think it one of the nicer windows managers out there for X-windows and as of today I am back using it. What is nice about it is that it is light and does not take many system resources. I really do not like where Gnome and KDE are[…]

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