It’s not pretty, but works for me — pre-requisite, Mark’s very useful “non-members” script: http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/non_members

1. find who you need to work with:
   
mkdir ~/tmp/gmail && list_lists -b | while read L; do list_members ${L} | grep googlemail > ~/tmp/gmail/${L}; done

2. Zap annoucement lists from the files, remove empty files, too.
3. Let them post!
   
/var/lib/mailman/bin$ ls -1 ~/tmp/gmail | while read L; do sed 's/@googlemail.com/@gmail.com/' ~/tmp/gmail/${L} | while read X; do ./non_members --list=${L} --filter=accept --add ${X} --verbose; done; done


(nb: the path (/var/lib/mailman/bin) is from a Debian machine — Mailman installed via packages — and in my case /var/lib/mailman/bin being in
my ${PATH} — so replace those as appropriate in your cases.)

Which seems to have done the trick.

I did. And couldn’t see anyone else’s script to steal, so here’s a really ugly way to do it


# arpinfo:
# pull hardware info from the arp() table
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Adam McGreggor. Some rights reserved.
# Email: Web:
#
# $Id:$
#

arp | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F: '{print $1"-"$2"-"$3}' | while read ARP
do
grep $ARP ${DOC}
done
arp


Works for me… although it could do with a tidy-up. As a quick and dirty thing, mind…

Anyhow, I would appear to have these firefox extensions installed:

• Adblock Plus
• AutoPager
• BetterFlickr
• Better YouTube
• Delicious Bookmarks
• DownloadHelper
• Echofon
• Extended Statusbar
• Fast Video Downloader (with SearchMenu)
• Firebug
• Firefox (default)
• Firefox (en-GB)
• Flagfox
• Flashblock
• Gmail Manager
• Greasefire
• Greasemonkey
• Image Download
• Image Zoom
• Inline Code Finder for Firebug
• is.gd Creator
• JavaScript Options
• keyconfig
• Magic’s Video Downloader
• oldbar
• Password Exporter
• Save Image in Folder [sic]
• ShowIP
• SkipScreen
• TinyUrl Creator
• Ubuntu Firefox Modificiations
• URL Fixer
• VMware Remote Console Plug-In
• Xulrunner (en-GB)
• YesScript

A few of those don’t have links I can identify from the URI.

Want some code that vaguely does this for you?

#!/bin/sh
#
# ffexts:
# list firefox extensions: names and URIs for download/homepage
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Adam McGreggor. Some rights reserved.
# Email: <adam@amyl.org.uk> Web: <http://blog.amyl.org.uk>
#
# $Id: ffexts 119 2010-01-10 00:38:04Z adam $
#

# grab the interesting bits from the RDF file
for K in name homepageURL
do
# nice fix-up, eh?
grep "NS1:${K}" ${INFILE} | sed -e "s/NS1:${K}=//" \
-e 's/"//g' -e 's/>//' \
-e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort | uniq > ${OF}-${K}
# using wc here is entirely optional
wc -l ${OF}-${K}
# append
cat ${OF}-${K} >> ${OUTFILE}
done


I thought. I know what, I’ll make all of these machines use a colored prompt, and make that lot of machines use a different one.

(At this point, I should say that my dotfiles, and a variety of other things are kept in a subversion repo. Most of those bits are my-eyes-only (particularly a lot of the very badly/hastily thrown together scripts), but a few bits I’m gradually releasing.)

After mentioning this on twitter, a couple of people have been interested in how I did it.

The solution is quite easy, work out the hostname, and from that determine the ‘class’ of machine, and then apply some colors. The archwiki was useful in getting out the colors to use; along with underlining, and emboldening (I never use underlining, except in manuscript: ghastly thing that obscures text).

Whilst not perfect (the color parts could be set as a variable, and then passed to the PS1 line; I could have used “else” clauses…), it works. For me, so, erm, here’s my .bashrc — you want from the # work out machine name/domain: line.

A simple switch wotsits in screen(1), and

$ cd ~/pseudohome && svn up

followed with a

$ . .bashrc

is how I deploy (some people have an ’svn up’ in their start-up scripts, I don’t).

Comments here, if you want to.

But, erm, yeah. I’ve made a start, and given how shit my memory is, I thought I’d explain (to you, and me) how I’ve categorized:

• @adamamyl/foodies — people who write about food. Or like food
• @adamamyl/burners — burners. as in burningman/nowhere/decompressions. fucking hippies
• @adamamyl/uber-kewl-kids — mainly shops/products I really like
• @adamamyl/lawyers — i seem to follow a few of ‘em: let’s put ‘em all together
• @adamamyl/academics — self-explanatory, really
• @adamamyl/public-life — better than “slebs”
• @adamamyl/music-folks — people in the music industry, in one way or another
• @adamamyl/technologists — people who fiddle with tech, new products, that sort of thing
• @adamamyl/mafia — people who (will) run things.
• @adamamyl/web-folks — people involved in web stuff and maybe social media, may include ruby people, as they’re not proper geeks
• @adamamyl/usual-suspects — child-eating, crack-dealing refusniks (hi Stef!) who still won’t give up.
• @adamamyl/politicos — those with political interests/aspirations. can also include current affairs/news
• @adamamyl/representatives — people who’ve been elected, usually
• @adamamyl/geeks — lovely people, really

hah.

thoughts, dear reader?

A spokeswoman for Ms Smith said: “The home secretary has always abided fully with Parliament’s clear rules on expenses and has long-standing written approval from the Parliamentary Fees Office for any agreed expenses.

Now, correct me if I’m wrong but the article relates to Jacqui Smith as a CONSTITUENCY MP, not a frikking Cabinet Minister. I find it quite wrong for the spokeswoman to refer to her office, when it’s a matter of legislature, not executive.

Please, please, please, can people get SEPARATION OF POWERS, into their heads. It’s really not that difficult to understand.

So, erm, here are some thoughts:

Whilst I still mainly buy tanq (it’s just so easy to drink, and v. nice), I prefer drinking Miller’s neat, or Old Raj for hair-of-the-dog/breakfast
(seriously: in a high balloon’d wine glass, a couple of inches, swirl, knock back before brushing teeth/going to the khazi).

I’m also rather partial to Blackwood’s — particularly to add a little more to Pimm’s, and other drinks.

If i’m poaching fish, i’ll use blackwoods’ too: it’s not too over-powerful in the taste department.

Afternoon gin: Hendrick’s is quite nice — if you like cucumbery tastes.

Drinking nice gins, however, does encourage me to buy nice tonic-water (fentimans’ or fever tree – stupid fucking javascript URIs.). I’m not really a fan of Schweppes’ tonic: too much sugar for me. I quite like Sainsburys’ & Waitroses’ own brands of tonic; the Sainsbury’s with lime’s quite nice on its own, too.

As for Pimm’s, well, I have been known to make it without a ‘conventional’ mixer: my approach falls along these lines (but is always a case of each top-up will be different):

• ⅓ ‘garden’
• various fruits
• various legume
• sprigs of mint
• a couple of handfulls of ice-cubes
• ⅓ Pimm’s Number 1 cup
• a very generous slug of either
• gin,
• cider,
• beer (ale),
• good quality white wine

– gin & cider sometimes work well together;

If there’s space, fill the rest up with lemonade, and stir well. Allow to fester for a couple of minutes, and serve.

To work around my hatred of PBWiki’s “notification” system, I’ve just re-appropriated (and made ‘ukgovweb-check‘) my dell-order-checking script to work for the wiki-page; changelog is that the script now uses lynx instead of wget, and that we send the difflog, rather than the whole-bloody-changed file.

If you’re still in the dark-ages like me, and haven’t written one yourself, here you go. If there’s a demand and people are feeling lazy, I suppose I could whip up a list.

Let me know if you do.

There’s some discussion going on on email, I do believe.

Anyhow, I’ve just made my thousandth post (shamelessly plugging this article), and thought: “given its gravitas (the number, not any of my drivel), let’s make it a bit more than the usual moans”. So, to Wikiquote I wandered (or should that read “wander’d I”) to get inspiration from others. After all, to use another quote:

Derek says it’s always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can’t top it, steal from them and go out strong.

more of that

So, here are some random quotes on “1000″, with the odd multiple thereof for when there’s a good ‘un:

• “May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.” — Abraham Lincoln (Second Speech at Frederick, Maryland (4 October 1862))
• “A single Voltaire will do more hono[u]r to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.” — Friedrich der Große
• “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” — Alfred Nobel
• “It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.” — Maimonides (The Commandments, Neg. Comm. 290, at 269-271)
• “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.” — Stephen Hawking
• “Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it. When you’re on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you’re off it you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite.” — Renton explains smack, in Trainspotting
• “One thousand years from now there’ll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.” — More wisdom from Trainspotting
• “The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.” — Anne Rice
• “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
  And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
  Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!” — Christopher Marlow’s Faustus
• “Pain… pain of the flesh. Like no Dalek has felt for thousands of years.” — Hybrid Sec, Evolution of the Daleks, Doctor Who
• “The battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. Or when they speak democracy, they don’t mean government by the people…they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.” — electioneering in 1939, as viewed by Tom Mosley
• “I became the murderer of many thousands of that fine race.” — William I, R
• “The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.” — Malthus
• “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” — J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
• “Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.” — Seneca (the Elder)
• “Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.” — Wilhelm Frich
• “For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone” — Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club

“Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it. Derek says it’s always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can’t top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you’d like. ‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.’” (via Wikiquote)

I guess there’s a wee bit of an irony here: in musing over a 1000th post of <160 characters, I've rather gone on a bit... rather than ending with a quote, would any of my half-dozen victimsreaders care to throw some quotes to the comments box? Preferably on the “1000″ theme….?