After Send mail via python it was time to try real `sendmail`.

[ From the FAQ pages of sendmail ]
How do I create attachments with sendmail?
You don't. Sendmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA). Creating e-mail messages, including adding attachments or signatures, is the function of a mail user agent (MUA). Some popular MUAs include mutt, elm, exmh, Netscape, Eudora and Pine. Some specialized packages (metamail, some Perl modules, etc.) can also be used to create messages with attachments.


Simple recipe to get youtube video in avi or ogg format from your terminal.

Ingredients:
youtube-dl, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora

After howto use real-time earth wallpaper i tired to make some random xkcd images as my wallpaper.
The below is a simple script which one can use to get random images from xkcd as desktop wallpapers at a time interval of 3600 seconds

Steps:
1. mkdir -p ~/.xckd
2. Place the code in this dir, call it xkcds.bash.
3. Setup a cron job or put the code in rc, as :
0 * * * * ~/.xkcd/xkcds.bash
[or]

As GoogleCL brings Google services to the command line. I tried this for the fun of it

"OpenVBX is an open source PHP/MySQL application that helps developers build rich, high quality Internet phone and SMS applications. OpenVBX provides a modern user interface for end-users and a complete API for developers."

After my old experiments with dictionary server protocol linux rfc 2229 i just wanted to try getting a mammoth list of synonyms for list of any give list, let logic behind it was pretty simple, but the pleasure that it gave was ultimate.

First off we need to install dict DICT Protocol Client. For a Debian based OS, its just sudo apt-get install dict.[ Read more ]

As Google is rolling there new feature of changing the background of the main search page, i created the above with one of my best shots, the full size image is below :

"The idea is to get the number of bugs with patches down to 0 by Maverick's release"

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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) will be available on Sunday, October 10th, 2010!

"Meerkats are, of course, light, fast and social – everything we want in a Perfect 10. We’re booting really fast these days, but the final push remains." - Mark Shuttleworth.

"sudoSocial is a new experiment in the Mozilla Labs Concept Series aiming to build a stream publishing platform, suitable for a profile page server. sudoSocial was developed by Austin King."

See the video and also do visit sudosocial.me

SudoSocial - An Introduction from Mozilla Labs

README file