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+#+TITLE: The 98% perfect RSS solution
+#+DATE: 2012-11-30 10:00
+#+TAGS: rss emacs gnus gwene tt-rss avandu
+
+* Test
+
+  I've been looking for the "perfect" RSS reading solution for a while
+  and I just got this idea for a setup that has to be about 98% of all
+  I'm looking for.
+
+  The things I'm looking for are:
+
+  - Emacs interface.  This isn't that big a problem since anything
+    with an API can be made to have such an interface, and I feel
+    comfortable enough with Emacs Lisp to write it myself if I have
+    to, like I was doing with [[http://code.ryuslash.org/cgit.cgi/emacs/avandu/][avandu]], but then it /does/ need a(n/ good)
+    API.
+
+  - Unbound to a single computer.  It's a hassle to have to remember
+    what you have and haven't read.  If it was easy your RSS reader
+    wouldn't care about (un)read items, everything would just be
+    "items".  So sharing that state between computers is pretty
+    important.
+
+  - A server.  Something that keeps running 24/7. Or at least the
+    closest possible approximation of that.  It's no good to miss
+    everything that happens between 11pm and 9am just because you
+    don't have your feed reader running.  Of course this is only a
+    problem if you're following some high-traffic feeds, but they
+    exist too.
+
+  - Runs locally.  The nice thing about having shell access to a
+    server somewhere that someone else keeps online for you is the
+    possibility to run something like [[http://newsbeuter.org/][newsbeuter]] and just
+    (de/reat)tach from whichever computer you're working on.  The
+    downside is, though, that this breaks pretty much all integration
+    with your desktop.  Opening URLs becomes a reliance on your
+    terminal emulator's ability to parse and open them.  Viewing media
+    such as images, or audio files from a podcast, turns into ~Save,
+    Transfer, Open~ instead of just the ~Open~.
+
+  - Handles big feed lists.  Even if you only read five feeds, the day
+    may come you'll be reading fifty, or even much more.  A piece of
+    software that handles this well is a must.  This is the problem I
+    had with [[http://codezen.org/canto/][canto]] and Emacs' [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NewsTicker][newsticker]].  *canto* looked awesome, the
+    most interesting interface to RSS feeds I have come across so far,
+    but back when I tried it trying to read my collection of feeds
+    would lock-up my computer.  *newsticker* would lock-up my emacs
+    session for 10-20 minutes.
+
+  Now though I have found something that does it all.  It is actually
+  a twist on something I used some time ago.
+
+  *Emacs* + [[http://gnus.org/][Gnus]] + [[http://gwene.org/][Gwene]] + [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/][unison]].  Not the easiest thing to set-up
+  perhaps, but once *Emacs* + *Gnus* is in place the rest is a piece of
+  cake.
+
+  *Gwene* is an awesome service that turns RSS feeds into
+  newsgroups.  *unison* is an awesome piece of software for
+  synchronising files between different computers.  *Gnus* is a real
+  newsreader.  *Emacs* is what *Gnus* runs on.
+
+  So it's kind-of like cheating.  *Gnus* is not unbound to a single
+  computer and *Gwene* doesn't offer server-side state tracking either.
+  But because *Gnus* uses a single file to store state about all of its
+  subscribed groups, this makes it a good candidate for sharing that
+  one file.  This is not something unique to *Gnus*, at least [[http://www.slrn.org/][slrn]] uses
+  the same kind of file, the ~.newsrc~ file (or in *Gnus*' case
+  ~.newsrc.eld~).
+
+  So I register the feeds I want to follow with *Gwene*, if they aren't
+  already registered.  I subscribe to the resulting newsgroups on
+  ~news.gwene.org~ with *Gnus* and when I switch over to another computer
+  I use *unison* to synchronise the ~.newsrc.eld~ file.
+
+  An example configuration of *Gnus* could just be as simple as:
+
+  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+    (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gwene.org"))
+  #+END_SRC
+
+  *unison* just needs:
+
+  #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
+    root=/your/home/dir/
+    root=/your/server/root/
+    path=.newsrc.eld
+  #+END_EXAMPLE
+
+  And that's about it.
+
+  Now it's still not 100% perfect.  I've seen that *Gwene* can't handle
+  100% of the feeds I throw at it, but these can be fixed either by
+  contacting the people publishing them or by improving *Gwene*'s
+  parser.  It also doesn't automatically check periodicaly, though I
+  think *Gnus* can be set-up to do that, but since I also use it to read
+  my mail (again) that's not really an issue.  It also isn't
+  accessible without *Emacs*, *Gnus* and *Unison*, but I hate web-interfaces
+  anyway.
+
+  So that's it. My 98% perfect RSS reading solution.
diff --git a/site/blog/A_new_org-blog.org b/site/blog/A_new_org-blog.org
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+#+TITLE: A new org-blog
+#+DATE: 2012-04-24 00:52:00
+#+TAGS: org-blog project
+
+I've taken it upon myself to update the ~org-blog.el~ that was written a
+long time ago. I want something other than an extra layer over some
+other system, ~org-mode~ has everything a blog needs, but it doesn't
+generate an RSS feed or a special index page.
+
+There was the ~org-blog.el~, but that uses some old functions that don't
+exist anymore, so I thought I'd try to update it.
+
+I just barely got it working, as you can see from this post. It
+generates an RSS feed, but the links don't work. It generates an index
+page, but no links to the individual pages (not that it needs it,
+really). It doesn't listen to some of the settings (toc, sections) the
+rest of the publishing projects do.
+
+I'd also like to have all posts in a single file and use things like a
+post's category and tags and such.
+
+It'll be interesting to see what else I can fix.
diff --git a/site/blog/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.org b/site/blog/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.org
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+#+TITLE: Another way to get a selection
+#+DATE: 2012-05-03 10:04:00
+#+TAGS: emacs elisp org-mode coding
+
+When I was first looking into improving my mailbox selection function
+I was looking at how to just ask the user for input with completions.
+Though now that I came across ~tmm-prompt~ I really prefer this way of
+working, at least in this case.
+
+However, today another function was mentioned, in response to someone
+pointing out ~org-completing-read~: ~completing-read~.  Wow that's a far
+leap.
+
+Anyway:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+  (completing-read "Your favorite color: "
+                   '("red" "green" "blue" "yellow"))
+#+END_SRC
+
+This will ask for user input and provide these options as completions,
+but it won't show a list of options, of provide shortcuts, like
+~tmm-prompt~ does.
+
+It's good to know these things, and I really should read both the
+emacs manual and the emacs lisp reference manual at some point.
diff --git a/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org b/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org
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+#+TITLE: Ask for selection in Emacs
+#+DATE: 2012-05-02 21:09:00
+#+TAGS: emacs elisp coding
+
+I came across an email on one of the emacs mailing lists today, where
+someone asked how to ask a user for input whilst providing
+completions.  The first answer he got was to try =tmm-prompt=, so I
+looked into it a little.
+
+I use =mu4e= as my primary email program, but since it isn't designed
+(seemingly) for use with multiple accounts I've got some wrapper
+functions that set some variables according to my liking and then
+start =mu4e=. This works very well, but it's a pain to have to use =M-x
+view-ryu-mail= or =M-x view-ninthfloor-mail= and such, so I wrote a
+function to read a string from the minibuffer, which I then bound to
+the ~<XF86Mail>~ key, this turned it into, for example =<XF86Mail> ryu=
+and =<XF86Mail> ninthfloor= and so on, but this doesn't have any
+completion or notification of my options.
+
+So after looking at ~tmm-prompt~ I came up with the following:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
+  (defvar oni:mailbox-map
+    '(("ryulash.org" . "ryu")
+      ("ninthfloor" . "ninthfloor"))
+    "A mailbox map for use with `tmm-prompt'.")
+
+  (defun view-ryu-mail ()...)
+  (defun view-ninthfloor-mail ()...)
+
+  (defun view-mu ()
+    (interactive)
+    (let* ((tmm-completion-prompt "Choose a mailbox\n")
+           (inbox (tmm-prompt oni:mailbox-map)))
+      (funcall (intern (concat "view-" inbox "-mail")))))
+#+END_SRC
+
+I've left out the definitions and some mail accounts for brevity.
+
+~tmm-prompt~ is usually used when using the text-mode menu with =M-` `=,
+but it works very well here too. This changes mailbox selection to,
+for example =<XF86Mail> r= or =<XF86Mail> n=.
diff --git a/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs_addendum.org b/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs_addendum.org
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+#+TITLE: Ask for selection in Emacs, addendum
+#+DATE: 2012-05-02 21:52:00
+#+TAGS: emacs elisp coding
+
+I erroneously assumed (and thought I tested) that using ~tmm-prompt~
+could be done the way I described before. The ~oni:mailbox-map~ variable
+needs to be a little different from what I'd shown before, namely:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
+  (defvar oni:mailbox-map
+    '("top" ("menu" ("ryulash.org" . "ryu")
+             ("ninthfloor" . "ninthfloor")
+             ("gmail" . "gmail")
+             ("aethon" . "aethon")))
+    "A mailbox map for use with `tmm-prompt'.")
+#+END_SRC
+
+Without the ~top~ and ~menu~ items it will complain about wrong arguments.
diff --git a/site/blog/a_simple_gnome-blog_test.org b/site/blog/a_simple_gnome-blog_test.org
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+#+TITLE: A simple gnome-blog test
+#+DATE: 2009-11-09 15:23
+
+I've been looking for some way to post blog entries from my desktop
+for a while now, I've come across Drivel (which crashes when I try to
+log in to blogger with it), can't find a Bleezer package at work (just
+checked it, first time I heard of it today) and no other gtk/gnome
+client seems appealing.
+
+Let's see what this gnome-blog app does.
+
+Not much so far, bold or italic seems the be the only options
+available to me at the moment, let's see about HTML:
+
+to install gnome-blog in Ubuntu 9.04 use
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  sudo apt-get install gnome-blog
+#+END_SRC
+
+and the rest should then be self-evident.
diff --git a/site/blog/code-blocks_process_terminated_with_signal_255_0_minutes_0_seconds.org b/site/blog/code-blocks_process_terminated_with_signal_255_0_minutes_0_seconds.org
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+#+TITLE: Code::Blocks "process terminted with signal 255 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)"
+#+DATE: 2009-08-25 10:40
+#+TAGS: codeblocks fedora coding
+
+Yesterday after I came home from work I thought I'd try working on a
+project I've been working on this past weekend.
+
+I was away from home this weekend, so all the work I'd done had been
+on another computer, in a virtual Ubuntu installation, so I hadn't yet
+tried it at home.
+
+Trying to build it went fine. Running it from a terminal went
+fine. Even compiling and running on another Ubuntu installation (my
+work laptop, non-virtual) went fine, but Code::Blocks reported to me
+that whenever I tried running my application on my Fedora 11 home
+installation that it terminated with signal 255.
+
+I couldn't find what was wrong, I knew the application worked since I
+tested it in another terminal window and if I debugged it it'd go
+great up to the point where it met with a ~cin~ or ~cout~.
+
+Being tired from a really long day (getting up at 5:00am, get on train
+at 6:25am, get off train at 8:30am and at work 8:50am), I gave up
+fairly quickly.
+
+This morning though the itch got worse and I just had to investigate
+further.
+
+After about a minute of looking around I found someone at the Ubuntu
+Forums asking about the exact same thing and it turns out that the
+problem was that xterm wasn't installed. So a simple
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  su -c "yum install xterm"
+#+END_SRC
+
+was enough to fix the problem.
+
+Now I can start developing my application again!
diff --git a/site/blog/gnome-shell_in_ubuntu_9.10.org b/site/blog/gnome-shell_in_ubuntu_9.10.org
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+#+TITLE: Gnome-shell in Ubuntu 9.10
+#+DATE: 2009-12-11 10:35
+#+TAGS: gconf gnome gnome-panel gnome-shell linux ubuntu
+
+Even though ~gnome-shell~ is really only a preview of what is to come
+for gnome 3.0 and it's still buggy and sometimes not completely stable
+perhaps, I really like it.
+
+When I first saw the screenshots I was less then impressed, I thought
+it didn't at all look like anything new or innovative, but rather
+messy and confusing. But me being ever interested in new things and
+all I just had to give it a try (the ~gnome-panel~ look was starting to
+bore me).
+
+Installing was easy
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
+#+END_SRC
+
+and starting it afterwards was easy too
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  gnome-shell -r
+#+END_SRC
+
+Though first I had to disable compiz, which I don't really use anyway.
+I was also using ~avant-window-navigator~, which disappeared on me but
+still kept part of my notification area to itself. So the time after
+that I first closed AWN and all was as it should be.
+
+I didn't feel like having to manually start ~gnome-shell~ every time I
+logged in so I started looking into a way to replace ~metacity~ and
+~gnome-panel~ with ~gnome-shell~ and found that this could be done by
+editing your ~gconf~ (with, for example, ~gconf-editor~) and setting the
+~/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager~ key from
+~metacity~ to ~gnome-shell~.
+
+Of course, since it is a composited window manager you need a video
+card and driver that can handle screen compositing.
diff --git a/site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org b/site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org
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+#+TITLE: Higher Resolution in Fedora 11 with proprietary NVidia Drivers
+#+DATE: 2009-09-22 23:51
+#+TAGS: fedora nvidia xorg
+
+Ugh... I have been screwing around with this since the beginning of
+time... Or at least since I installed Fedora for the so-manieth
+time. Finally though I found out what I had to do.
+
+Following [[http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752][this guide]], I was able to easily and correctly install the
+drivers. I used to build them myself, but that got me worse results
+then anything.
+
+To sum up, though:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  # switch to super user (root)
+  su
+
+  # install rpmfusion repository
+  rpm -Uvh \
+      http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
+      http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
+
+  # install the driver (I have an i686 pc, you might need a different architecture, like 64_32 or something similar)
+  yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
+
+  # reboot to make changed take effect
+  reboot
+#+END_SRC
+
+This only got me a 1024x768 resolution, though... Which pissed me off...
+
+I started looking around the internet for a way to fix it in the
+~xorg.conf~ itself, which I'd done on Fedora 9 before, but didn't
+remember how (the reason I'm writing this right now), but didn't
+actually find what I was looking for.
+
+In the end I found 2 supposed fixes, one added a Modes option to the
+=Display= section of the =Screen= section, and another was to add a
+=DisplaySize= option to the =Monitor= section.
+
+Well, I found out I needed both, so I added =DisplaySize 1280 1024= to
+the =Monitor= section and =Modes "1280x1024"= to the ~Display~ subsection
+of the ~Screen~ section.
+
+Now it's working again, running at 1280x1024 with screen compositing
+(so I can run ~gnome-do~ with docky theme, which I'm trying out for a
+while).
diff --git a/site/blog/index.org b/site/blog/index.org
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+#+TITLE: Blog
+
+* Posts
+  #+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports results :results list
+    (defun file-to-data (file)
+      (unless (or (string= file ".") (string= file "..") (string= file "index.org"))
+        (let (title date)
+          (with-temp-buffer
+            (insert-file (concat "/home/slash/var/src/orgweb/site/blog/" file))
+            (goto-char (point-min))
+            (re-search-forward "^#\\+TITLE: \\(.*\\)$")
+            (setq title (buffer-substring-no-properties
+                         (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))
+            (goto-char (point-min))
+            (re-search-forward "^#\\+DATE: \\(.*\\)$")
+            (setq date (buffer-substring-no-properties
+                        (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))
+        (list date (concat "[[file:" file "][" title "]]")))))
+
+    (mapcar #'cadr (sort (delete nil (mapcar #'file-to-data (directory-files "/home/slash/var/src/orgweb/site/blog"))) (lambda (el1 el2) (not (string-lessp (car el1) (car el2))))))
+  #+end_src
diff --git a/site/blog/mod_rewrite_with_fedora_10_and_ispconfig_for_wordpress.org b/site/blog/mod_rewrite_with_fedora_10_and_ispconfig_for_wordpress.org
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+#+TITLE: mod\_rewrite with Fedora 10 and ISPConfig for WordPress
+#+DATE: 2009-12-09 10:33
+#+TAGS: apache2 fedora ispconfig mod_rewrite
+
+This relates to Fedora 10 and ISPConfig 3.0.1 set up as described in
+[[http://www.howtoforge.org/perfect-server-fedora-10-ispconfig-3][this HowtoForge post]].
+
+One of my colleagues recently got interested in offering our clients
+Wordpress as a content management system, so he's been trying it out.
+
+Yesterday he found out that if he wanted to change the permalink style
+in Wordpress he needed write access to =.htaccess=, which he didn't have
+because the user rights haven't been set up very well there.
+
+So I gave him write access by using
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  chown apache:apache .htaccess
+#+END_SRC
+
+Unfortunately this resulted in a 500 Interal Server Error.
+
+Looking at the error log for the website I tried this for it let me
+know that =RewriteEngine= directives were not allowed in the =.htaccess=.
+
+Since I didn't want to mess with the base configurations of ISPConfig
+I started looking around for other options. Eventually I found that I
+had to add something similar to this to the Apache directives field
+under options under the website's settings
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC text
+  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
+  <Directory /var/www/[sitename]/web/>
+  Options +FollowSymLinks
+  RewriteEngine On
+  RewriteBase /
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
+  </Directory>
+  </IfModule>
+#+END_SRC
+
+Of course ~[sitename]~ should be replaced with the name of your website.
+
+It all works after I restarted the apache server myself, but I do not
+know if that is completely necessary. Also it might take a few seconds
+before ISPConfig finishes editing the configuration file.
diff --git a/site/blog/not-as-perfect.org b/site/blog/not-as-perfect.org
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+#+TITLE: Not as perfect
+#+DATE: 2012-12-01 16:01
+#+LINK: emacs  http://gnu.org/software/emacs/
+#+LINK: gnus   http://gnus.org
+#+LINK: gwene  http://gwene.org
+#+LINK: unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
+
+* Unexpected
+
+  I thought that the [[emacs][GNU Emacs]] + [[gnus][Gnus]] + [[gwene][Gwene]] + [[unison]] solution would
+  be near perfect, but it seems that it is, unfortunately, not
+  entirely the case.
+
+* A problem
+
+   It seems that there is either something wrong with [[gwene]], or with
+   my connection to the [[gwene]] and [[gnus]] server.
+
+   The problem is that I'll add some RSS feed to [[gwene]] and it *will*
+   get registered and tell me it will be filled in a few minutes, but
+   then even days later they'll still not be available in the group
+   list.
+
+   I haven't found any reason why, they're not crazy feeds, I do get
+   other new groups (so it's not all of them), but it's annoying.
+
+* Next
+
+  I think I'll start looking at other solutions again.  Too bad,
+  because the feeds that are working are working really well for me.
diff --git a/site/blog/removing_a_service_manually_in_windows_server_2008.org b/site/blog/removing_a_service_manually_in_windows_server_2008.org
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+#+TITLE: Removing a service manually in Windows Server 2008
+#+DATE: 2009-11-09 12:24
+#+TAGS: services windows
+
+I was writing a test Windows Service and accidentally removed it
+through the Programs and Features dialog, which removes the files, but
+doesn't actually remove the service from the service list. So when I
+tried to install the 2nd version of this test service it was
+complaining that it already existed.
+
+I looked around a little and found that I could delete the Service
+from the registry in
+~HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[YourService]~. I
+deleted the key (the little folder thingy) and it did show some
+change, but my service was still there and the newer version still
+wouldn't install.
+
+After a little more looking around I found out that to fix it I could
+use ~sc delete [YourService]~ to fix it. And it did!
+
+Next time, though, I really should use the installer I used to install
+it to remove it...