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is there really no easy way to get sms (read: short messages sent via gsm) as emails? strange. - I googled in vain today but maybe someone has an idea ...

update: I know how to send an email via sms with t-mobile but what I'm looking for is a phone provider independent solution that allows me to collect sms as emails at the receiving end without any need for the sender to do something else than writing a standard sms to a specified number.

gqview cannot create thumbnails? a little challenge :-)

Cf. the short article.

tried to burn a few audio cds today. - is there really no program [1] that allows to say "I want n copies" (where n > 1)?

and: I learned that burning audio cds in DAO mode leads to strange results (when playing the cds in a cd player afterwards) but TAO seems to work now.

3 finished, 27 more to go.

[1] that doesn't need kde or gnome

unintentionally uploaded a package to the debian server instead of our repository. but katie of course refused the package 'cause she doesn't know my gpg key.

embarrassing ;-)

From: Archive Administrator <katie@spohr.debian.org>
To: gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at
Subject: Processing of $package-2_i386.changes
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:50:13 -0700
        
PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on $package-2_i386.changes
gpg: Signature made Thu Aug 18 11:49:09 2005 PDT using DSA key ID 00F3CFE4
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
(Exit status 2)
$package-2_i386.changes has bad PGP/GnuPG signature!
Removing $package-2_i386.changes, but keeping its associated files for now.



Greetings,



        Your Debian queue daemon

I'm surprised - why is there no debian package for planet although planet debian seems to use it? - filed an RFP.

debian/unstable has a new version of unison (2.10.2). the changelog warns that it doesn't work with the old configuration and that it's incompatible with an older version running on the remote computer.

*grmpf*

downgraded.

update: 2.13.16-2 has entered testing, so all machines can (and do) run the new version. good. - it's only a matter of patience :-)

lintian told me about bashisms in post{inst,rm}. after some trial&error I found out that it was the '-a'.

'test foo -a bar' is a bashism but 'test foo && test bar' works.

I think I finally managed to set up nanoblogger & exim to accept new entries via SMS (like this one!) or e-mail. - and sometimes I hate the permission & umask stuff ...

the day after: calling the script from procmail is much easier than from the aliases file. - thx for the idea, philipp!

the day after the day after: now the script looks nicer and the procmail recipe is a little more intelligent, too (/dev/null if success, deliver to $MAILDIR if error). - time for writing docs ;-)

the day after ...: created and published a small debian package.

just installed nanoblogger.

looks like a nice & straight forward tool.