bashrc

Posted on by yam 
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias ll='ls -hl'
alias la='ls -Ah'
alias x='startx'
alias clear='clear;fortune -ae'
alias nstll='sudo apt-get install '
alias vi='vim'
alias halt='sudo halt -p'
alias vii='sudo vim '
alias key="mount /dev/sda;ls /mnt/key"
alias unkey="umount /mnt/key"
alias dos2unix="flip -uv "
alias unix2dos="flip -mv "
alias spmlearn='sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/willyyam/Mail/spam;
rm /home/willyyam/Mail/spam;
touch /home/willyyam/Mail/spam'

# set a fancy prompt
PS1='[

fetchmailrc

Posted on by yam 
# After some consideration, I've decided to run this sucker via
# cron, 'cause I don't *really* need extra services running

# fetchmailconf is a stupid-head

set postmaster "$username"
set bouncemail

# Do this for each account to fetch

poll $accountname via $mailserver

user '$remote_login' there with password '$remote_pass' is '$username' here

USB Keys

Posted on by yam

I had a store credit to use up before Christmas, and so I bought a couple of USB key storage devices, one for the lady and one for me. I was quite please at how easy the were to set up, just adding a line to /etc/fstab and mounting the device. For the longest time though, I could only perform operations on it as root, which is tiresome. Luckily, Emma pointed me at some good documentation and so I was able to get everything working sweetly. Here’s what I’ve got working:

# A directory called /mnt/key
# These lines in /etc/fstab
none        /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults            0   0
/dev/sda    /mnt/key    vfat    rw,user,noauto      0   0
# And these lines in my .bashrc
alias key="mount /dev/sda;ls /mnt/key"
alias unkey="umount /mnt/key"

It works pretty sweetly, and these storage devices are awesome. I’ve never gotten close to filling it up yet.