Monthly Archives January 2009

telnet escape for non-US keyboard on OS X

The default ^] telnet escape sequence is not doable on my swiss-french Macbook Pro keyboard (or at least I didn’t found how).
I defined another escape sequence by adding this to ~/.telnetrc :
# Escape sequence is <CTRL><ESC>
default
set escape ^[
In vi, to add the code, use
<CTRL><V><CTRL><ESC>
Now, <CTRL><ESC> does the job.

Going Paperless : some resources

Trevin Chow on the Fujitsu S300 : http://trevinchow.com/blog/2008/06/10/going-all-digital-with-the-fujitsu-scansnap-s300/
Jason Hunter on file organization : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/11/02/personal_document_management.html
Ken Silver on his paperless setup : http://kensilver.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-paperless-office.html
Erin Doland on what to shred (or not) after scanning : http://unclutterer.com/2007/05/07/paper-clutter-begone-part-4/

Going Paperless : the backup

Follow up on my previous paperless articles 1 and 2.
If you start scanning every paper you get and then shred it, you need to have a good backup. Here is what I have been using in the last months :

rdiff-backup started by a cron job. The enclosing shell script test if I’m at home, and [...]

Why you should avoid proprietary file formats

A sailing colleague sent me a picture for a web site. The file came with a .mix extension. I tried many programs to open and convert it, but no way. I found that .mix is a file format used in Microsoft products a few years ago. The filespec has never been published, and there are [...]

my Apple Mail inbox contains 4 millions emails

Or so it says. Damn bug, or is it an issue with the dovecot IMAP server I run on the back ?
Yes, I run a dovecot server on my Macbook Pro, to be able to receive localy sent mail, because Apple decided that Mail shouldn’t be able to use the /var/mail/$USER mailbox we have been [...]

Siemens Gigaset C475IP unstable

I have this phone since about 10 months. It’s a cool device, supporting a POTS phone line, and SIP VOIP calls. The configuration is web-based, and a part of the software is OpenSource, running some GNU packages.
Sadly, this phone has been unstable. The POTS side always work, but once a week, the SIP VOIP part [...]