Jan-Piet Mens

Photo: Matusciac Alex.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, so I don't. But I really had to patch the BIOS of my D830 because I had trouble with graphics in Centos 5. So after downloading a new BIOS (A04) from Dell's support site and crossing my fingers, I find that I cannot boot, as this has detected a change in the BIOS signature.

Damn.

I'd forgotten, that the software checks the integrity of the BIOS and refuses to unlock the system if it has been tampered with.

Since I use the software in corporate mode, I have to wait until Monday to get the Safeboot admins to remotely unlock (or recover) my installation.

From a pingback:

Methinks I wrote that…

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Philip Hazel, the man behind the Exim MTA takes his leave:

Just so you all know: this is my last day at work before retiring. I am
about to unsubscribe from the exim-users list. However, I will stay on
the exim-dev list for the moment and I am continuing to maintain PCRE.

It's been fun interacting with all you over the years!

It is a shame to see him go. He created one of the best documented and best functioning programs that exist.

Whilst searching for an outliner in preparation for a largish project (which I won't discuss yet), I stumbled over a small native Win32 program called The Guide. I love programs that just work, and this one does just that.

The only downside is its export function, which is limited to exporting RTF. I've already contacted the author whether he would be able to add an XML export for me, and he will, time permitting.

A very useful small tool.

do you really want the bright sparks who work there now, and manage to break lots of perfectly good working code—rewriting the core calculating engine in Excel? Better keep them busy adding and removing dancing paper clips all day long.

Joel Spolsky.

Reader Uwe Pries has left a comment on my whatmon extension for Firefox and/or Thunderbird, where he shows us some PHP code to use whatmon to notify him of new messages which have arrived at a POP3 account.

He was also kind enough to point us to the code he uses.

Thanks, Uwe.