The following article is a repost of an original that I wrote for blogs.perl.org.

I thought I would share my experience of submitting a module to CPAN for the first time. In summary: it’s stupidly easy and if I can do it, so can you.
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Since I’d had my iPhone I’ve wanted to be able to sync my contacts with my Horde Webmail install.  This post is about setting up the Funambol application in order to do so.
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I have recently started using the Funambol iPhone app to keep my contacts in sync with my webmail addressbook.  However, some fields aren’t included in Turba by default and need adding.  This post is for system administrators rather than users, so if you don’t run your own webmail then point your friendly geek at this post.
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Tired of seeing repeated attempts to login to a Linux server you run?  There are a number of options, all with their own benefits and disadvantages.  The easiest way is to move the port that the SSH server runs on, perhaps to 2222 instead of 22.  However. this can be annoying behind some firewalls and means that you need to specify the port each time you SSH to a host.  This post looks at denyhosts, a viable alternative.
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In a slightly crazed moment today I decided to write some documentation. Having used Docbook before for my UML Bridging Tutorial, I thought I’d pay it another visit.

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So Windows 7 is here. This blog post is rather outdated as far as that is concerned. What’s missing still is becoming more of a frustration though, as neither the HP P1006 or Canon laser printer I have are currently supported.
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I’ve been using Remember The Milk for a few days now and I am really impressed. One thing that is missing is the ability to show what tasks are due on a certain day when browsing the calendar, because Apple haven’t opened up the calendar API. However, it is incredibly easy to add this feature.
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It has frustrated me for a while that the play/pause buttons on my keyboard don’t control iTunes unless the iTunes window has focus. This seemed a bit strange, but a very quick Google finds a very useful plugin that fixes this issue. Thanks to the author.. whoever they are!

Extended ACLs on Linux can be incredibly useful.  Permissions can actually be more secure whilst allowing a number of users or daemons access to a file, no longer are unwieldy groups necessary to allow reading or writing.  But for some reason, I noticed that these extended ACLs disappeared when a file was edited in vim. Read the rest of this entry »

Another odd bug, this time in the RSS feed reader liferea.  Ubuntu bug 208135 has the details, apparently the internal browser does not correctly use the proxy authorisation.  However, the actual feed puller does, so this results in odd articles with no images.  This is another one which should be fixed in “Karmic Koala“.

As for the Rhythmbox bug mentioned previously, that one does not seem to be fixed in current Karmic.  I tried an upgrade and then a fresh reinstall but Rhythmbox still exhibits the same problem.  Perhaps it is made worse by Squid sending a text/html error page, but that is a standard feature of one of the most popular pieces of proxy software, not something crazy I’ve done with no thought.  For once.