It turns out that you can already buy customizable wireless router platforms (called Wirless Router Application Platform.. started by a company called PC Engines). For about $150, you get a mini board with a 266Mhz Geode processor builtin in, 128mb of sd ram, a CF slot, a couple ethernet ports, and a couple mini-pci slots […]
More on desktops… I also thought about this today.. if I had gone with a PowerMac, then that might have saved me from all my keyboard ordeals. I could have just gotten the real kinesis at both work and home and could have been done with it. With a laptop, you have the added constraint […]
I’ve almost had this laptop for a year now. Feels like a good time to evaluate how good or bad of a purchase it was. My main concern is that for the majority of my usage scenarios, laptops actually are the suboptimal solution. In buying a laptop again, I had hoped for several benefits, namely: […]
Why do I always miss stuff. My biggest gripe with mutt was that it couldn’t sort threads by the last message received in each thread. Turns out it can. ‘set sort_aux=last-message-received’ Doh. Update: Along the same lines.. it turns out that if sort_re is set, then message will only be threaded if they both match […]
Since hunting for appartments in the Noe/Mission area royally sucks (for some reason, the owner of the really unpopular appartments decide to post the same ad on craigslist upwards of 5 times per day), we’ve taken to acquiring new furniture for our room. First the table (a black, sleek and sturdy one that we found […]
Just for future reference. If Windows XP backup gives you the error: “error returned while creating volume shadow copy: 80042301”, do the following: Backup the Registry; Open “regedt32.exe” and navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/system/setup”; Change the “UpgradeInProgess” value to “0” [1]; Change the “SystemSetupInProgress” value to “0”. Open “regsvr32 ole32.dll”. Open the Services MMC snap-in and restart […]
I took a friend’s advice and applied the best mail filter of them all: unsubscribe from mailing lists that you don’t read regularly. You never see the messages, so you don’t worry about filtering them. Out of sight, out of mind. Also, sending out nicely formatted email is often much more trouble than it’s worth, […]
I don’t think I’m going to be able to resist getting one of these Core Duo Mac Minis. I was really worried that Apple would choose to cripple their Mac Mini’s and release only Solo versions, but thank goodness they’re still willing to innovate in the performance area as well. My pet theory is that […]
So it turns out all kinds of stuff fails when your locking calls fail. Dovecot can’t create indexes of your mailboxes. It also spits out a IMAP warning about it, and mutt pauses a second to display this warning. mutt can’t create its header cache without it, making the use of IMAP with large mailboxes […]
After a long period of trial and error, I think I’ve finally chanced upon the best email solution for work. It turns out that, the solution follows the principle of using the best component for each task, and building a solution out of all the components — the so-called UNIX way. Anyways, here’s what it […]