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 grepmail in the past, but it slow for me (it scans [...]
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wifiroamd, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, and Fedora
One of the things that has annoyed me about Fedora has been the decision to switch over to using NetworkManager to manage all network connections. 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 [...]
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C*MUS – A music manager for the terminal
C*mus 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 [...]
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Google’s Calendar on the Command Line!
You love your comfortable command line, but all the cool kids are playing in the Web 2.0 web space, and you want to stay true to your roots? Want a Web 2.0 calendar, but still love (or need) command line access? I just found the answer: gcalcli. This little tool will let you list your [...]
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Alerting with Remind
Back in my article on Remind, I talked about the simple power of remind to power your scheduling needs. That is all fine and good, but how to you get it to tell you when you have an event? In its simplest form, when you run remind from the command line, it will not only [...]
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