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Today I wiped out my entire AIM buddy list without realizing that there was no easy way for re-importing them. Since Gaim doesn’t have an import function, I had to make a script that allows me to re-add them via the gaim-remote uri feature. Here’s the script: blistconv.pl

Hopefully this is useful to someone. To make Mozilla or Firefox pass AIM URIs to Gaim, do this:
As root, create the file /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri with the following contents…
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gaim-remote uri $1

Then make the file executable by running…
chmod 755 /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri

Close Mozilla/Firefox.

Open your prefs.js file (~/.firefox/default/XXXXXXXX.slt/prefs.js) and enter the follwing at the end of the file…
user_pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.aim”, “/usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri”);

Save prefs.js and [...]

I’ve had an ongoing project for probably more than a year now to build a permanent MythTV box. It’s pretty easy to set up if you use Fedora Core 1 (WITHOUT the KDE upgrades). Just follow this MythTV HowTo, which includes the info on how to avoid installing KDE updates.

If you are trying to prevent dhcp from overwriting your DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf on Redhat/Fedora, just add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever dynamic interface you use):
new_domain_name_servers=”192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3″

Or whatever nameservers you use. Just restart your network interface and the change will be applied.

There’s an interesting tool that spam proofs your email address for web usage called the Email Obfuscator.
I gotta see if I can put something like this into PHP-Nuke.

If you’re like me and log nearly every violation of the firewall using iptables rules, you’ve probably seen these violations on the console. This can be annoying if you are trying to actually use the console for something productive :-)
Here’s how to turn up the severity level of logging on the console so that only [...]

So you go into /etc/resolv.conf and set your search domains. You’re happy that you no longer have to type in the full domain for your favorite server anymore when ssh’ing to in, and you come back to your computer a day later and find that they’ve been wiped out. Arg! Apprently DHCP knows what’s better [...]