Comments on: Cory Doctorow: What I Do

By: Daily Dose of Excel » Blog Archive » How I Do

Daily Dose of Excel » Blog Archive » How I Do — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:13:17 +0000

[...] From Walkenbach and Doctorow. [...]

By: BLHill.net: WordPress 3.0: Thelonious

BLHill.net: WordPress 3.0: Thelonious — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:45:30 +0000

[...] after hearing some of Matt Mullenweg’s opinions on the subject, as well as revisiting some of Cory Doctorow’s perspective, I’m seriously considering going completely open source, and ditching [...]

By: Sebastien Marion

Sebastien Marion — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:09:37 +0000

Wow! Wonderful Cory. You’ve earned a lot of respect for your workflow and it’s nice that you are so forthcoming. I do wonder if you adhere to guidelines beyond GTD. In any event a big thumb’s up; a lot of food for thought.

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Plumbing wordpress theme | Hi Tech Stuff Reviews & Updates — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:36:29 +0000

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By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:41:14 +0000

Cory’s approach to getting email out through blocked SMTP ports certainly works and I resorted to it in the past. But it is beyond the reach of anyone who doesn’t know how to build an SSH tunnel. More recently I’ve been using a MUCH more elegant solution (at http://www.loapowertools.com). They give you a small virtual server to put on your laptop and you set your Outgoing Server permanently to “localhost”. From there, your “local” server routes email through Loa’s server (with full encryption) to its ultimate destination. Works flawlessly anywhere in the world because it uses the https: port (443), which is always open. Plans are inexpensive, and there’s a free version, too. It’s simplest just to buy a small plan, set the Loa app to autolaunch on boot, and just leave your outbound email always pointed in that direction. That way, you never have to change anything no matter where you are.

And I’m on my fourth thinkpad…

By: Dave Atkins

Dave Atkins — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:53:44 +0000

FTR, your travel configuration is almost identical to mine (except I use Blackberry).

By: Dave Atkins

Dave Atkins — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:53:03 +0000

Regarding your ssh tunnel.

I wrote a phonehome script that plugs into the NetworkManager start and stop scripts, and restarts it on drop or reconnect.

I wrote it originally to provided an ssh tunnel back to the laptop of my computer novice friends for remote help. It’s pretty robust.

I’ll track down my archive of it. E-mail me if you’d like it.

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Tinker Tinker « Lithiumed! — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:30:44 +0000

[...] Tinker Tinker John Walkenbach’s template of “What I Do”, inspired by Cory Doctorow. [...]

By: Dave Ex Machina – A Thousand Points of Articulation » Dave Lartigue: What I Do

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:55:06 +0000

[...] of Cory “BOINGBOING” Doctorow. He recently wrote a column in which, by popular demand, he lays bare all the hardware and software he uses to do God’s work of documenting the gluing on of brass cogs to [...]

By: persky

persky — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:03:21 +0000

As GordonM says, Akregator (KDE’s RSS reader) can archive and search feeds. The mk4 back-end for the archive is a bit wonky, but navigable enough that I was able to recover a bunch of zombie haikus when that site that was hosting them went down.

I can confirm that the dpkg trick works when migrating Ubuntu to a new computer, although I went the slower route of:
(on the old computer):
dpkg -L > installed_packages.txt
# hand edit installed_packages.txt for the programs that I’m still
# using
cat installed_packages.txt | xargs sudo apt-get install