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Drop Caps are pretty much what the name implies: the first letter of a paragraph is enlarged and dropped to the left of the first paragraph on the page. This is seen in books, newspapers, and magazines all over. It is a classic design trick that can be successfully brought to a web page to give it a bit of elegance.

via TamWiki Main/Drop Caps With CSS complete with an example.

I am looking for a way to use command line mail tools that deal with mulitple e-mail accounts on different servers (incorporating mail from a remote server and routing outgoing mail to the appropriate SMTP gateway associated with the account).

I can probably cobble up something to handle incorporating mail using fetchmail and procmail, but figuring out the appropriate SMTP gateway is problematic.

TamWiki Main/Inactivity Timeout On A Page.

Normally, Quicksilver doesn’t index bin directories. In fact, you can’t even specify /usr in a path when selecting folders to search in. (Not sure where that limitation lies, perhaps with Apple). But the following bit of info on the Quicksilver site provided the answer:

You can also run Unix commands from the Command Window, and even pass arguments to Unix commands or shell scripts. To do this you need the Terminal plug-in.

If you want to run a Unix command, you need to make sure that the commands you want access to are scanned in the Catalog. Since Unix paths (like /bin and /usr/bin) are not shown in Finder, you can’t select the path to the Source in the Catalog using the normal method (see Catalog). However, there is a trick to allow you to do it. Click the ‘+’ button at the bottom of the Catalog window to create a new source. For now, select any folder in the Open dialog. Open the information drawer for the new item by clicking the ‘i’ button. Choose “Source Options” from the drop-down menu. The panel directly below the label “Path” shows the path of your Source, but what isn’t obvious is that this path is editable. Click in the panel, type the path you require (for example, /usr/bin) and press Tab to enter the path.

Now you can access Unix commands in the Command Window:

1. Activate the Command Window, type a shortcut to find the command (for example, top to find /usr/bin/top, and press Return or Enter.
2. A new Terminal window opens running your command.

To pass arguments to a shell script or Unix command:

1. Activate the Command Window, and type a shortcut to find a shell script or Unix command (see previous steps).
2. Press Tab and choose Run [with arguments].
3. Press Tab again, then enter text mode and enter your arguments in the text box in the third field.
4. Quicksilver executes your command, and places the output in a text clipping in the first field for you to do with as you wish.

Command-line devotees will immediately be able to see the amazing potential of this feature. One word of warning though; don’t try to use Run [with arguments] on an interactive command that doesn’t exit until you tell it to. For example, if you pass arguments to top in this way, it will output the first lines to a text clipping and then hang waiting for input, so that you will have to kill the process manually. Remember – always practice safe command-line techniques.

See, the key that makes this work is something which is here-to-fore hidden in Quicksilver. It is not at *all* obvious that the Path field is editable!! (It just looks like a normal label.) Anyway, score one more for Quicksilvery Productivity Goodness.

Now I can easily use my todo list manager, the ever helpful [todo.cli](http://lifehacker.com/5155450/todotxt-cli-manages-your-tasks-from-the-command-line) written by the ever wonderful Gina Trapani.

I’m planning on keeping the Xandros distro on it and not do anything particularly fancy with it.

First thing i did was add some additional repositories to /etc/apt. I added the following repositories:

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4 main
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch

Second thing I did was install screen(1). How could they leave off this Tool of the UNIX GODS!!!

Third up is getting it to work with my Treo 700p over the USB connection. After that, I’ll tackle getting it to work with the 700p over bluetooth.

There isn’t any real documentation on how to set up the 3epc over USB phone. I’ve had to scratch out information from friends and the internet as best as I could. Best thread so far is http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1127 (both pages). I’m also finding good templates from the USBModem site (http://www.mobile-stream.com/usbmodem.html) even if I don’t need their software (I bought Sprint’s Phone-as-Modem plan).

I needed to make sure cdc-acm was installed. I added cdc-acm to the end of /etc/modules and rebooted.

Go back to Network Connections, try to add a new dial-up network, and…… the phone reboots! ARGH.

Ok, turns out I didn’t need cdc-acm. I needed a utility called USBModem which sells for $25 that runs on the 700p. WOOOT! IT WORKS!

But it’s not perfect. As per http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=21392, I edited the file /etc/ppp/peers/dialup1 (created by the network creation program) and added the following two lines:

lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 65535

Unfortunately, the network still seems to time out after about 10 seconds of no activity, so I launched a ping to yahoo.com to keep it open. I hope they don’t mind too much.

76.81.61.109

The color of my IP is

see http://www.colormyip.com/