Archive for October, 2007
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 [...]
From a pingback:
Methinks I wrote that…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.