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Archive for March, 2010

Starbucks, you need a new cup design

Mar 28

Posted by Ryan in Rant | No Comments

 

Drink Coffee; Do stupid things faster with more energy

Drink Coffee; Do stupid things faster with more energy

Those of you who already know me know not to mess with my coffee. Recently though Starbucks is making my bad list. Two days in a row I have gotten a cup of coffee and had unpleasant results. The lids leak when I walk and all in the cup-holder of my car. The leak is at the seam of the cup. The pictures say it all. Anyways, Starbucks this is your only warning, fix your cups!

 

 

After a 1 mile drive in a cup-holder followed by 300 yard walk.

After a 1 mile drive in a cup-holder followed by 300 yard walk.

 

 

The source

The source

 

Filter duplicate emails with Procmail

Mar 13

Posted by Ryan in Internet, Software | No Comments

At school I am on multiple email lists based upon my classification. Unfortunately the school does not have the list server configured to ensure that only one copy of any given message is delivered to a user. So when administrators send messages to list1, list2 and list3 all at once I get three copies of the same email!

This has bugged me for so long and I have put off finding a way to filter it because I figured it would be pain. But it wasn’t! All you need is a new procmail recipe like the following:

PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
:0 Whc:
msgid.lock | formail -D 4096 $PMDIR/idcache
:0 a:
Mail/duplicates

Make sure $HOME/.procmail exists before expecting this to work!

This tidbit was thanks to the Sysadmin Ramblings blog.

http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/filtering-duplicate-emails-with-procmail/