At some point my Ubuntu installation's crontab decided to use nano as its default editor, despite my having switched it to emacs. Upon using crontab -e, I get dropped into nano. On completion of the edit, the shell reports: "/usr/bin/sensible-editor: 25...

I am looking for a simple regex or text-matching based method to filter emails on my Postfix server. For the most part, my server does not get any spam, so there is no need for a heavy-duty antispam solution. On the other hand, there is just one very persistent...

So I have an AirDisk set up on my Apple AirPort Extreme router. As I occasionally travel, I'd like to access my AirDisk from the WAN or general Internet. On the other hand, I'd rather not expose the Apple Filing Sharing port 548 over the WAN via the AirPort...

The default soundset that Outlook ships with is too muted. I would like to import the old Entourage 2008 sound set into Office 2011. I looked in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Sound Sets, but did not find the Default sound set there.

I managed to get a version of proxychains running on OS X 10.6, after fixing all of its weird library load errors (due to hard-coded library paths in proxychains/proxyresolv's wrapper scripts). Unfortunately, though it correctly connects to an external DNS...