Someone asked me:
“Joel,
I read your last post on Thunderbird and noticed you said [...] that you were “over client based email”. I use Thunderbird. Why do you say that? What don’t you like about [...], client based applications?” – Yes I paraphrased. But spelling is intact.
Mail.app
– I would like the ability to shut off Spotlight [...]
Probably belongs in a tweet, but since I blogged about it here, I’ll write it here.
Stopped using Thunderbird. After it consumed 20 Gigs of space downloading my email, constantly kept my CPU at 80-100% and the hardware fan busy, consuming 500 Megs of RAM… I ditched it and went back to Gmail on the web.
It [...]
I know you’ve read from me time and again that I am a big proponent of Google’s Gmail interface. However, ever since Mozilla put out Thunderbird 3.0, i’ve been trying it. It combines the best of both worlds, offline (even though Gmail just released that non-lab), client access, OSX integration. But perhaps the best thing [...]
Friend of mine, Mike Mishou, started a new blog over at http://mishou.org. So far he has some great posts, and I envision him to continue having great posts. Head on over to Mike’s website and check it out.Please leave comments below.
Happy to see this, because I know several friends of mine have been working on this in the background at Google, and what a good job they have been doing as well. I have visions of these guys in dimly lit rooms sitting around keyboards, their faces awash in the white glow of XCode, furiously [...]
I don’t remember exactly where I got this from, but I’ve been using it a lot lately to look at websites. Since apparently, ad space and other random flash or movement based ads on webpages is now the norm — making the content on a webpage impossible to read without distraction, someone made this. It’s [...]
This is an absolutely phenomenal desktop wallpaper for those of you that hate clutter. So, if you are one of those kinds of people (re: me) that can’t stand icons on your desktop and the like.. this one is for you. Posting the link over to Merlin Mann’s blog, where the awesomeness takes place.
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/229188592/simple-desktop-download
It simply [...]
Getting Things Done, or “GTD” for short, as I’ve blogged about before, several times, is a method of personal organization with a focus on accomplishing tasks. It’s great for applying to email (Inbox Zero) and it’s great for organization of your personal life (read some of the articles I’ve written before, particularly this one).
Some IDS [...]
I posted this on the ISC this morning as well, but I just wanted to post it here as well.
A “bug” created back in November against the latest Fedora release (12) indicates that, through the GUI, desktop users of the Fedora system are able to install signed packages without root privileges or root authentication. Yes, [...]
Commenting on an email I read earlier today, some people apparently still have the misconception that an IPS simply sends an RST packet, and therefore, shortly after a session that is taking place between two parties should die.
Nope.
A real IPS, in my opinion, has full control of the traffic. Cable one, exits firewall, enters [...]