Today, I am in awe. I decided I wanted webmail on my mail server, so that I could check my email on computers I don’t have a proper email client set up on. For instance, on a lab computer at my university. So I started looking around.
I’ve tried setting up webmail in the past, usually unsuccessful. IMP, Horde, squirrelmail, most people would be familiar with the horrors of webmail clients. Some of them even want access to the raw storage files in /var/spool/mail/etc. Which I don’t think is the proper way to go about things. But luckily today I stumbled upon RoundCubeWebmail, which I had downloaded, installed and configured in under 5 minutes.
Where’s the downside to this painless webmail? I’m yet to find one!
- It looks nice (unlike some of the others, whose web design is stuck in 1995). A few small icons and a bit of CSS goes a long way.
- It works via IMAP, so doesn’t require access to the raw mail files *yuck*.
- It seems fairly configurable, but the defaults are sensible.
- You can configure it to allow access to multiple IMAP servers, so a single installation on a web server can deal with multiple IMAP servers, no problems at all.
In all, I really like this software!
…and why you probably haven’t noticed.
Facebook, along with its partner in crime MySpace, were touted as the all-singing, all-dancing duo of social networking in the Web 2.0 age. For a long time I didn’t catch on, until about March/April in 2008. It was at that point in time that I decided to open an account on Facebook, to see what friends of mine were up to. And that’s when the trouble started.
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A few days ago I stumbled across an article on Maximum PC about the history of the x86 architecture, giving an overview of pretty much every x86-based chip ever made. And what a list. Check it out: here.
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Last week I bought a new domain name, jackscott.id.au. Why, may you ask?
Because I could. I’ve wanted to buy it for absolutely ages (about a year or so, around the same time I bought jackscott.org) but it was already owned by some other guy. I couldn’t be bothered chasing him to offer to buy it, so I put it to the back of my mind. And then the domain expired so I snapped it up.
At the moment there’s not a lot on there, just links to places that already exist. Eventually I hope to expand it (ie fix the links that don’t go anywhere). So you can check it out, www.jackscott.id.au.
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Yesterday evening in the mail I received, amongst a whole package of computer junk I didn’t really want, a couple of socket 370 CPUs. Four of them, to be exact. One is a Pentium III Coppermine CPU proper (an SL52R), the others are Celerons of various speeds.
You’ll notice that the SL52R is the same sSpec I was raving on about in my last post on this subject. So why did I rush out and buy one? Because to me, it has beautiful proportions. 1GHz is a nice round number. In my opinion the amount of cache is a nicer number than any other amount (256KiB instead of the 128KiB found in the Celerons and some Pentium IIIs), and the core voltage is nicer (1.75V). I would have preferred a 100MHz bus speed (instead of 133MHz), since that’s a nice round number, but you can’t have everything. Plus, a 133MHz bus does go a lot faster.
Unfortunately the picture isn’t mine; my digital camera has decided not to work in the cold this morning.
Pentium III Coppermine SL52R