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So you probably discovered that your MacBook Pro runs about as hot as the corona of the Sun.

If you’re at my blog here, you probably run some GNU / Linux distro. Just a guess.

If you’re running a GNU / Linux distro, there’s a good chance you installed the binary ATI drivers and associated tools, even though it makes your soul bleed.

So, if you have ati-config you can do the following:

Once you get the number to use, likely same as above with ‘1′, you can do

You can also use –effective=startup to have this saved in your X config file. Personally, I like to be able to change it on the fly.

I emerged spamassassin, which installed the spamd server, and the spamc client, with which to talk to the server.

However, the logs were complaing TELL commands have not been enabled. It seems that SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd is missing the -l (–allow-tell) option.

Adding the above -l to SPAMD_OPTS allowed spamc to talk to spamd and make it start learning.

I found it much easier to set up multiple smtp accounts for mutt using esmtp than anything else. It’s actually completely straightforward — just make esmtp do all the work …

• install esmtp
• create your ~/.esmtprc file
• man esmtprc — seriously, it’s easy
• add the following to your ~/.muttrc