I managed to compile Mono 0.28 from sources on my Linux box and on my iBook. 0.26 wouldn't compile on my Mac as it failed to find a file necessary for the JIT (there is no working JIT for the PPC architecture, yet).
The first mini-test I do with a Mono installation is running Ant's tests. The tests for <csc> pass, which doesn't mean much more than that Mono's C# compiler is compatible enough to Microsoft's to at least pass the simplistic tests.
One small tweak to Ant's tests was necessary: I had to force Ant to use mint instead of mono as the runtime (i.e. no JIT) for my Mac as all the tests would have failed otherwise.
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All my mail is collected on a single box via fetchmail. I've been doing so for years now and it's always been fine that way.
Some months ago some spammers started to put a single dot on a line by itself somewhere close to the end of their mails. An RFC compliant POP3 server is supposed to escape that. One mail-server that receives mails for me unfortunately isn't compliant to that and I don't have control over it.
When fetchmail encounters such a message, it will die because of a protocol error after it has delivered the mail to my local MTA but before deleting it from the POP3 server. The result is that I get duplicates of this spam mail over and over again until I manually delete the problematic mail.
I've upgraded my (originally RPM installed) fetchmail to the latest version, RTFMed and STFWed to no avail - there doesn't seem to be a way to make fetchmail recover from a problem like this.
Currently I'm half-way torn between brushing up my rusty C knowledge in order to dive into fetchmail's code and simply looking for an alternative. Conor started piston a while ago, maybe I should give it a try before anything else.
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Antville, the software behind blogger.de, doesn't support trackbacks yet. As it is open-source, I'm sure it is going to be added sooner or later.
In the meantime, I wanted to be able to send trackbacks from posts I write and a found a solution based on Sam Ruby's autoping script.
I store all my blog entries in files that seem to be roughly similar to blosxom's style (i.e. title in the first line, body follows after that) on my machine in addition to posting it to blogger.de, so adapting Sam's script was straight forward. For anybody who wants to try the same, these are the steps I had to take:
- use
python2as executable as I'm running RedHat 7.x on my machine and/usr/bin/pythonis a 1.x version that doesn't know thesplitlinesmethod. - Change the url discovery algorithm in
excerpt- I've decided to put the "story-number" into the last line of my file. - change the excerpt-algorithm (I simply limit the excerpt to the first 250 characters of the body)
- Finally, and most easy, change the
blog_nameattribute.
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