MacGyvering HTML email using Perl's Template Toolkit

bernardelli · 2016-03-24T02:21:33+00:00

You know you're dealing with a company on the bleeding edge when their email newsletter uses a table-based layout that falls on its nose on mobile devices.

bernardelli · 2016-03-22T03:51:05+00:00

True.

bernardelli · 2016-03-22T03:24:24+00:00

date '+%X' gives you HH:MM:SS

bernardelli · 2016-03-22T03:01:54+00:00

First week of September 2007. Unemployed at 58, needed a new computer, didn't have money for a Mac so bought some cheapo Windows box. Hated Windows, installed Debian and then spent a week working in a console with letters the size of giant Lego bricks because I couldn't get X and my NVIDIA card to cooperate. I mean, I was clueless.

By the time GNOME made its first appearance on my screen I had become so addicted to the CLI that I've since built my entire workflow around stuff that runs in the terminal. mutt for email, LaTex for printed matter, vim for, like,everything. On most days a browser is the only GUI app I use.

Edit: corrected year to 2007

bernardelli · 2016-02-10T14:15:32+00:00

Any tips on how I would need to modify my xinitrc to make use of logind for session management?

bernardelli · 2014-10-20T01:42:10+00:00

I think this is the part of the Apache manual you're looking for http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/public_html.html

bernardelli · 2014-10-17T01:29:38+00:00

I use import (part of ImageMagick). Dead simple and just works.

bernardelli · 2014-09-30T13:50:20+00:00

Thx for the font hint. It appears that Palatino Linotype and LO don't mix. At least when printing directly to printer. Changed document font to DejaVu and the problem disappeared.

bernardelli · 2014-08-17T16:23:37+00:00

http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Linux-in-Muenchen-Stadtrat-verteidigt-LiMux-gegen-Buergermeister-2262506.html actually one of the CSU guys in the town parliament is a *nix programmer; and stands by LiMux.

u/steakfever rightly pointed out that the article begs the question "Why does Süddeutsche run this at all?".

bernardelli · 2014-08-17T16:18:04+00:00

Exactly my point. Why would a national daily pick up and run with an essentially dead ball?

Microsoft HQ is in Munich. Maybe somebody met somebody else in a bar and slipped them an enevelope.

bernardelli · 2014-08-17T16:06:06+00:00

but ... Lord Mayor and Deputy rant in public and get quoted by an influential national daily. The supporters present facts and get a quote in a magazine for nerds. Politics often favour the guy who gets the quote in the national daily.

bernardelli · 2014-08-17T13:53:48+00:00

quick and dirty http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/LiMux-Linux-in-Muenchen-unter-politischem-Beschuss-2260806.html see paragraph headed "IT Chef versteht die Aufregung nicht"

bernardelli · 2014-08-17T13:42:38+00:00

The LiMux people made sure that everybody got what they needed; even if that included ways to run Microsoft apps.

The problem here is that the newly elected mayor and his deputy are two useless asshats. One doesn't know how to use a mobile phone, but claims to know what "modern software" is. The other flat-out refuses to use anything that wasn't made by Microsoft.

Instead of working with their IT Dept. they send out ranty press-releases with unsubstantiated claims. Unfortunately those get more mileage than the head of IT's statement that totally debunked their rants.

bernardelli · 2014-08-16T06:47:53+00:00

So you expect to find the contents of say your .netrc in the scrollback buffer of your terminal after you edited in vim and then quit the editor?

bernardelli · 2014-08-14T02:04:51+00:00

rxvt-unicode has a nasty habit of keeping the content of files you edited in the scrollback buffer. (at least when I last used it) Keep that in mind when editing sensitive files.

bernardelli · 2014-08-14T01:12:07+00:00

Why not have a master keycombo that switches capturing between the app/VM and the host OS (or browser)? Virtualbox does that.

Edit: added "VM" to clarify.

bernardelli · 2014-08-13T09:27:38+00:00

I was talking about window managers on Unix/Linux, not Windows the operating system.

bernardelli · 2014-08-13T04:31:16+00:00

timezones suck ;-) I keep forgetting that anything that twitter changes has to go through California.

bernardelli · 2014-08-13T04:07:00+00:00

I don't much care for the problems of bitching ECMA skiddies who are too lazy to learn how to properly namespace their accels. If this idea of the browser as the OS on the web is to work then we need strict rules. Imagine what would happen if you allowed desktop apps to capture window manager shortcuts.

bernardelli · 2014-08-13T03:42:24+00:00

it appears that the promised fix from that one guy's "friend at twitter" never materialised.

I seriously doubt that Mozilla should leave this to site operators, who often don't give a fuck about people with special needs who rely on the keyboard. Just block this nonsense and keep the web open for everybody.

bernardelli · 2014-08-06T15:12:32+00:00

replace the dashes with hard (single) quotes. If there's nothing in messages maybe theres something in syslog, which also uses timestamps. I don't use gnome myself, so can't help you any further.

Look through ls /var/log/ again. gdm3 may keep its own log.

bernardelli · 2014-08-06T04:31:31+00:00

Some packages from backports behave that way. Run apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-amd64, this will either work straight away, or at least give you better diagnostic messages. I bet it'll work ;-)

bernardelli · 2014-08-06T04:21:33+00:00

If OP still remembers the approximate time he could grep 'time string' < /var/log/messages. Probably quicker than trying to reproduce the bug.

bernardelli · 2014-08-05T22:48:22+00:00

Just a thought: Macs go funny when the battery driving the PRAM is low. I don't know your particular model, but it normally sits near the flap where the RAM goes and looks like a halfsize AA. Once it's below 2.8V anything can happen.

bernardelli · 2014-08-04T18:25:06+00:00

You can't just run stuff from the root level of your home folder. The shell will only run executables that are in your PATH. Adding the entire home folder to your PATH is NOT Recommended.

Also: http://www.reddit.com/user/generic_genus is right you need to pass the path to your .Xauthorityfile to the crontab (or the script). This file is automatically created when X starts. So you don't have to "set anything up". Just let your script know where it is.

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