Foddrick

I have never been a fan of printers and less so multifunction printers. Recently, I've been wrestling with my fax because it stopped printing rx reports so I didn't know whether or not it was successful. Additionally, it was low on toner, and it was constantly flashing "Received To Memory". These problems are all related. It seems by default when the fax is low on toner, it won't print any reports or automatically print faxes. The solution is fairly simple.

If your machine is anything like mine, press menu, find "Fax Settings" -> OK -> Find "RX Settings" -> OK -> Find "Toner Supply Low" -> OK then choose "Keep Printing" and press "OK" again. If your problem is similar to mine, your printer should spring to life and output the missing reports and faxes. You will of course use up your toner more quickly.

It is bad enough that I am at a point where I need to use MYOB. I tried to speed up the process by importing some data from another database, but no matter how I formatted it, with CRLF or just LF, every time I tried to open the file, MYOB gave me a helpful I/O Error on put. I finally figured out that MYOB wants to be able to open the file in write mode, and I had created a readonly file!

A quick script to undo the change that suncorp made to their left menu with all the opening and closing sections. This makes all the menu items visible all the time as it used to be.

I've recently set up VOIP (via engin) and did not want my other net activities to interfere. I had my download client throttled to 5kps and I was running wondershaper but it didn't seem to make a difference. It finally dawned on me that it was my ACK packets that were flooding my upload link. Once I added some iptables entries to mark the packets from my download software, and gave them the lowest priority, all was good.

Here is a script that I originally found on http://www.arantius.com/article/gmail+action+links.
Unfortunately, gmail has changed since that script last worked and it doesn't seem to be actively maintained. I love this script and keep making changes to keep pace with googles changes to gmail. Here is my latest version which was working as at 1st August 2006.

Welcome to the new server.
After 3 weeks of renovations and procrastination dominated, I've finally moved 1 site over to my new dedicated server. And I discovered the cause of the funky stuff in drupal when you upgrade to php5 is that you shouldn't be using the xtemplate engine with php5. Upgrade to 4.7 already anyway!

Ok, if you are like me, where you have your own domain, and merely forward all email to gmail, make the illegal extension problem go away by filtering your email through this sed script.

/Content-(Disposition|Type):/ {
  /name=/!N
  s/(.*name="[^\.]*\.)(zip|exe|mdb)(.*)/\1\2\_\3/g
}

I commonly get exe, mdb and zip files with illegal files in them, if there's others you want to receive insert them into the appropriate place.

Do you always get spam sent to some other name at your email address ? Here's a great SA rule to stop that.

header NAMEWRONG To =~ /(?i)(?!.[^"]*your first name[^"]*)[^\<]*\<your\@email.com\>/

score NAMEWRONG 4.0

Just replace your name with your first name and your\@email.com with your email address. The \ is required.

I suspect this one rule will slash my spam count.
You'll need to write more rules for any regularly spammed addresses.

Edit:Hmmm.... While useful, it doesn't look like this traps that much spam.

Last night the kids bathed, dryed put their pyjamas on and went to bed ! I'm still pinching myself ! More of the same improvement to come please !

I'm pleased to announce that my radar animations are now completely created without my intervention. Enjoy the radar animations here.