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Let’s say you can’t log into your Mac, but you either have access to its hard drive (e.g. booted into FireWire target mode) or you’ve booted into single-user mode (by holding down Cmd-S, then typing “mount /” to enable read-write). On a normal Unix box you’d be able to edit the passwd and fstab files, [...]

Since the documentation sucks: it is possible to combine the pipes for spamassassin & maildrop with the funky double-pipe for dot-forward in the courierd conf file. Here’s what I have now:
DEFAULTDELIVERY=”|| /usr/bin/dotforward
| /usr/bin/spamassassin | /usr/bin/maildrop”
Yes, on two separate lines. I don’t understand either. I wish the “DEFAULTDELIVERY” option was better-documented, I can’t seem to find [...]

I just discovered the show with ze frank minutes ago. I think I’m already addicted, and I don’t know why.

I’ve disappeared. I know you’re all edge-of-your-seat anticipating an update.
What’s happened these past few weeks? Not much. Working, relaxing. And sometimes, chillaxing.
We’ve brought in a statistician for our paper. I’ve actually learnt some stats now, it’s exciting. We missed the deadline for the one journal, but Paul doesn’t seem terribly upset. I think he sees [...]

The SQL query that I’m running 650 times is as follows:
SELECT h.protein_acc, h.taxon_id FROM homologene h, all_proteins a, synonyms s WHERE
s.synonym = ‘$_’ AND a.alt = s.protein_acc AND h.protein_acc = a.protein_acc
UNION SELECT h2.protein_acc, h2.taxon_id FROM homologene h1, homologene h2, all_proteins a
WHERE a.alt = ‘$_’ AND h1.protein_acc = a.protein_acc AND h1.hid = h2.hid;
I estimated that the [...]