HONK! MY FIRST SYSTEMD TIMER

Along with the update of Honk to version 1.2, I add a systemd timer to keep its database lean.

UPDATED FIRST STEPS WITH NIX ON DEBIAN

Mixing Debian with Nix in 2023 (updated from 2021)

OVERCOMING "LISP CONNECTION CLOSED UNEXPECTEDLY" BY CLEANING .CACHE/COMMON-LISP

Cleaning up whatever is in .cache/common-lisp helped me get around issues that began with the update of slime and swank to version 2.28 in Debian unstable.

Using slime would invariable go something like this:

ONE VOWEL AND FOUR CONSONANTS

For fun with Common Lisp and to help solve a certain puzzle - but just a little bit - I wrote a set of tools to analyse words of just five letters.

NONEXISTENT SPAMASSASSIN USER_PREFS

This is for those who combine Spamassassin, Exim and Debian-spamd, and wish to fix those nonexistent spamassassin user_prefs: "No such file or directory" errors and others.

EXIM SYSADMINS BEWARE, DEBIAN BOOKWORM IS A MAJOR UPDATE

A warning for all sysadmin using Exim on Debian Bullseye, don't switch to Debian Bookworm just yet.

CYRUS IMAP SYSADMINS BEWARE, DEBIAN BOOKWORM MIGHT HOSE YOUR MAIL

A warning for all sysadmin using Cyrus imap on Debian Bullseye, don't switch to Debian Bookworm just yet. Your users might lose access to their email. (Updated on 2023-07-19)

TRUE OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY: EMACS REMOTE COLLABORATION (CRDT).

To create documents, presentations, spreadsheets and the like, nothing beats Emacs with two or more users collaborating simultaneous in the same buffer.

ORG-MODE PIECHART IN A HURRY (3D!)

I needed a pie chart, and had very little time. R and Org-mode to the rescue.

MODULES=DEP; A REMEDY FOR UPDATE-INITRAMFS' "NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE"

The fix? Add MODULES=dep to /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/modules, followed up by update-initramfs.