Archive for November, 2003

Not too long ago I got an email from a reader of this weblog that he needed help setting up Thunderbird to read his emails. In the end, it turned out that he was given the wrong email account information by his ISP, so I didn’t provide any real assistance. As it is, he was [...]

One of the biggest annoyances in Windows is Windows Messenger, which springs to life of its own accord whenever you boot up. Or when you open Outlook Express. Or for no apparent reason at all. And you can’t close it because “some other application is using it” or some rubbish like that. It’s there like [...]

Update: Multi-Patcher is a newer, better patching program than PatchXP mentioned in this old entry. Read about it. Some of you Windows XP users may use or have used StyleXP to skin your desktop with XP themes. StyleXP uses Microsoft’s native skinning (or theming) engine, so it doesn’t slow your system down like WindowBlinds does. [...]

Web development site SitePoint has recently started a series of articles on Java in it’s Spotlight on Java and J2EE. A new article is published everyday, and the quality is good. SitePoint is popularly-known as one of THE places for PHP articles (its PHP forum is also one of the busiest) – this shift in [...]

Joey Hess writes in CVS homedir in Linux Journal: I get three major benefits from keeping my whole home directory in CVS: home directory replication, history and distributed backups. Yup, it’s amazing, but definitely not crazy. He could be on to something. I’ll have to try that sometime when I get a server with lots [...]