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Quick Fix: ssh timeouts

  It is very annoying when you leave an ssh window open to your server with something running, go to lunch, come back to see this: Read from remote host my.stupid.server.uni.edu: Connection reset by peer. Connection to my.stupid.server.uni.edu closed.   So here are two fixes. The first is server side. ssh to your server, and […]

The open source spammer: extracting email addresses from an openoffice.org document

I’m organizing a workshop later this month (see here, scroll to session V), and I have just received the attendees list from the main conference’s organizers. Since I need to spam send the attendees informative email on the specific workshop, I needed their email addresses. Here’s what I did. The file itself is MS Word […]