I recently needed to tag the first 5,389 messages in a mailbox using Mutt. This is much easier than you might think. shift-t - By default, the command to tag messages based on a pattern is bound to shift-t. If you've changed this in your muttrc, use whatever you've bound tag-pattern to. ~m1-5389 - ~m [...]

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If you need to comment something out of your .vimrc, start the line with...

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I released a new version of my Google PageRank Tool for WordPress last week. Google recently changed the URL for PageRank information which necessitated a change in the plugin. The new plugin has been tested with WordPress 3.2.1.

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My wife uses a Canon FS100 for taking home videos of the kids. If you aren't familiar with it, it's a fairly light-weight camcorder that uses SDHC cards rather than tapes. The only real grievance I have with it is that the video codec it uses is not compatible with Quicktime, iPhoto, or iTunes. I wrote the following Bash script to convert my MOD files to MPEG4.

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In a small environment, there's very little reason to rely on DNS resolution inside MySQL. You can disable it by adding skip-name-resolve to your my.cnf or by using the --skip-name-resolve command line argument. Remember that if you disable DNS lookups, you will need to set permissions using IP addresses rather than host names!

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