June 27th, 2005 Scott
I’ve been looking for a good email storage solution for many years now. I’ve been wrestling with the problem that anybody who owns and uses multiple computers has probably encountered at one time or another. How do you keep your email synced between multiple computers? Nothing is worse than needing to reference an email while working on your laptop, and realizing that the email in question is on your desktop.
I’ve been looking for solution that would do the following for me:
- Make copies of my email available to all of my computers.
- Makes it easy to backup my mail.
Until now, I’ve been running my own local IMAP server. This works fairly well when I am on my local network, but is useless when I am somewhere else. Not to mention, the care and feeding on an IMAP server for one person is more trouble that it’s worth. Luckily, I found the following post from Jeremy Zawodny. Using a variation on his setup, I now have my email available on all my computers, I have backups, and I even have it available via webmail.
For anyone who cares, this is how my setup works. My primary email address is actually a forwarding alias. I’ve changed the alias to point to my GMail account. From there, GMail forwards a copy of every message to my ISP mailbox. Then, I download my mail via POP to my local machine.
So far, this setup is great. I can read and manage my email with KMail, and I have running backups and webmail access through GMail. In a word, awesome.
Tags: Internet Email
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June 27th, 2005 Scott
I still haven’t found time to install Fedora Core 4 on my home server yet. Too many other personal projects have been demanding my attention of late. However, I did manage to upgrade my laptop from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4. I’ve been running it for a couple of weeks now, and so far it has been fabulous. I personally find it to be a big improvement over FC3. I’m hoping that I will soon be able to enjoy it on the server too.
Tags: Linux Fedora
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June 27th, 2005 Scott
Microsoft has announced that they will not permit alternative .NET implementations (Mono) to create their own versions of Avalon and Indigo without a license. Since the terms of said license will most likely conflict with the terms of the GPL and LGPL, these technologies will not be available in Mono.
This is the kind of thing that really kills my interest in Microsoft products. The primary reason I became interested in .NET was the premise of an open, cross-platform development environment.
Thank you Microsoft for giving me one more reason not to upgrade to Longhorn.
Tags: Programming Microsoft Longhorn .NET
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June 13th, 2005 Scott
The Fedora Project released the latest version of their Linux distribution today. As usual, the fastest and easiest way to download is by using the torrents.
With this release, I will be re-paving my home server. I plan on creating a series of posts to chronicle this project. This is mostly to record the process for myself. I do not do this very often, and I waste time re-learning how to configure the box. Maybe somebody else will find my experience helpful.
Tags: Linux Fedora
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June 13th, 2005 Scott
Here are a couple of fun Flash puzzle games. Good for wasting time when you should be working.
Hapland and Hapland 2.
Tags: Flash Games
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June 7th, 2005 Scott
This was kind of an interesting quiz to take. I scored as I would expect.
From the Thinklings.
| You scored as Premillenialist. Premillenialism believes that there will be a rapture and tribulation before Jesus returns and overthrows the antichrist and establishes his Kingdom. Current events are spoken of in scripture. |
| Premillenialist |
|
75% |
| Moltmannian Eschatology |
|
60% |
| Left Behind |
|
60% |
| Dispensationalist |
|
60% |
| Amillenialist |
|
45% |
| Postmillenialist |
|
40% |
| Preterist |
|
10% |
|
What’s your eschatology?
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Tags: Religion Eschatology
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June 3rd, 2005 Scott
I’ve been using Backpack for a couple weeks now, and I absolutely love it. It’s a really neat way to organize and track information. It allows you to create a page, and populate it with task lists, notes, attachments (for paying customers only) and links. You can even share pages publicly, and let other users update your pages. For an example, look at my Book and Game List.
They offer a limited account for free. (Five pages, no file or image attachments) I would highly recommend trying it out.
Tags: Tech Backpack
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