July 7th, 2004
Via Photo Matt.
Novell is giving away the Linux Technical Resource Kit for free. It contains:
- SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8.0 (ISO Installation Images)
- SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional (Bootable Installation DVD)
- Ximian Desktop 2.0 Evaluation (ISO Image)
- Ximian Red Carpet 2.0.2 Evaluation (ISO Image)
- Novell Linux Services 1.0 (ISO Image & NLS Companion CD)
- Novell GroupWise for Linux 6.5.1 - Server, Client & Messenger (ISO Images)
- and more…
We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. Delivery will be made via US Postal Service, first-class mail.
Nice.
June 27th, 2004
Doron has written a Gmail Notifier extension for Firefox. It adds a button to your toolbar that displays the number of unread emails you have in your Gmail account. Like how I have 0 new emails (I’m a lonely, lonely guy) in the screenshot below.
Neat work, and this is still early stages for Gmail Notifier. Doron has promised Gmail/Mozilla integration and this (Gmail Notifier) seems to be part of that exciting project. Check back with Doron for more later - this should lead to something really neat.
June 26th, 2004
Danyel Fisher pointed out this cool Gmail tip.
Note that you can get around the label issue by forwarding messages to “myname+label”, and then searching for “+label”.
(Gmail allows you unlimited “+” addresses. For example, all my mail that’s forwarded from an external account goes to mygmailname+forward@gmail.com)
Aforementioned “label issue” being the issue with gExodus 0.2’s new label feature which prefixes a user-specified string to the subject of each forwarded email. If I’d known that earlier… Nah it was good practice. It actually forced me to figure out how to modify an existing email’s headers.
June 23rd, 2004
I’ve updated gExodus (previous version 0.1) with 2 new features (straight from the changelog):
- Added ability to set a label to prefix to the Subject of forwarded emails.
- Added “Pause/Continue” feature.
The “label” idea was suggested by Rory Parle (great thinking!), and it should be particularly useful for identifying which imported email messages came from which mbox. For example, if you set a label of “[yahoo-personal]” when importing your Yahoo personal email account into Gmail with gExodus, each of the emails will have “[yahoo-personal]” prefixed to their subject field. This means that an email that had the subject of “Hey dude, I heard Futurama’s coming back!” becomes “[yahoo-personal] Hey dude, I heard Futurama’s coming back!”. It annoyed me that the imported mails cluttered up my Gmail inbox and I don’t know which ones are imported, and which are “live” emails that I’ve just received. This also now allows me to setup a filter to filter all imported mail to be tagged with a particular label.
The “Pause/continue” feature allows you to pause the importing of messages midway through an import. Useful in situations where you have a large mailbox with lots of messages. It should rightly work even after you’ve disconnected (and reconnected) your Internet connection.
Still having several issues with multithreading, so you’ll notice 1 last email being imported after you pause or abort gExodus. This is because if the email forwarding thread is paused (or killed) while it is sending out an email, it will follow through with it before actually pausing (or dying). It’s not a particularly catastrophic issue, though far from acceptable.
Download gExodus 0.2
Feedback and suggestions welcome as always. This is what’s on my TODO list:
- Pre-select where the mbox file is most likely to reside on a harddisk
- Delay field (for specifying the delay between sending one message and the next)
- Interactive importing (”Yes/No/Yes to all”)
- Importing of maildir format
- Recurse subdirectories and import all the mailboxes in each directory
June 21st, 2004
Update: Well, it seems I was wrong about this. Google seems to give out invites quite randomly. Read the comments for more info.
OK so it’d no longer be a secret now that I’ve let it out into the wild. Anyway, the hypothesis goes somewhat like this: the number of Gmail invites you get (to send out) is positively correlated to your usage of Gmail. “Usage of Gmail” is hard to define, but I reckon it’d include the number of emails you send/receive, and possibly the amount of storage you use (out of the 1GB).
Why do I say so? Um, if you’ve been following my inane writings on this weblog, you’d probably noticed gExodus, a Python hack job that I churned out yesterday that imports emails (in mbox format) into Gmail. It does this by forwarding your existing mbox - i.e. it parses the mbox file and sends each email via SMTP to your Gmail account. This registers as received mail in your Gmail account.
In my testing of gExodus, I probably forwarded around a thousand emails. I just logged into my Gmail account and saw the red “Invite a friend to join Gmail!” link…
And I had 6 invitations (I’m left with 4 now). People don’t normally get 6 invites in 6 days’ time. But 1000+ (received) emails in 1 day, 6 invites the next - all that’s left is to connect the dots.
Novell gives away SUSE Linux 9.1 Pro and more
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