Today I upgraded POPFile from v0.17.5 to 0.19.1. Sticking with the same old version for eight months apparantly had me missing out on quite a few improvements. Since I started using fetchmail, I’d been bumping into an issue where mail retrieval would never time-out if my Internet connection was down. Plenty of blame to go […]
Archive for July, 2003
Upgrading POPFile
31Jul03theKompany.rom Goes 1.0
29Jul03theKompany’s Zaurus ROM has reached 1.0. Announcement, download, tkc.rom home (not yet updated).
Treo E-mail Follow-up
29Jul03To follow up on my search for Treo e-mail clients, the $35 SnapperMail appears to be the benchmark e-mail client for Palm OS. It has excellent support for attachments, bundled viewers for Photos and ZIP files, HTML mail rendering, browser support, and SMTP-Auth. The “Premier Edition” adds SSL support for $10 more. IMAP support is […]
Treo 600 Gets FCC Nod
29Jul03Brighthand reports that the Treo 600 has received FCC approval, in GSM and CDMA variants. According to the initial Treo 600 reports, the CDMA version is due from Sprint in October. There is still no word on when, or which, US carriers will offer the GSM version (Orange will offer it in Europe, timeframe unknown).
I’m […]
Treo Notes
25Jul03Handspring is now offering the Treo 270 with AT&T Wireless plans, and there is a Treo AT&T Update for current Treo 180 and 270 owners.
My Treo Unlocked page has been getting a lot of traffic from search engines, resulting in many e-mails and several comments about unlocking the Treo. Tiger Direct has put up an […]
AlwaysOn Spam
25Jul03Received my first spam to a disposable e-mail address I set up for AlwaysOn Network. As it turns out, their Privacy Policy requires members to e-mail memberadmin@alwayson-network.com to opt-out from third-part disclosure.
Spambots, do your thing.
Clarification: I received spam addressed to a disposable e-mail account that I used specifically to sign up with AlwaysOn.
International SMS
25Jul03AT&T Wireless is now providing International SMS — incoming messages are free, outgoing costs $0.25 while in the US or $0.50 while roaming internationally. Not a bad deal, but only 11 countries are currently offered (mostly South American).
The Best Laid Plans
25Jul03My plan for last weekend, to re-pave my Zaurus and test drive some alternative ROMs, didn’t quite work out. Instead I started the prep work for re-paving my Debian/Linux box (bovine) because I have violated one of the principal tenets of Systems Administration.
Never experiment on a system you are not prepared to rebuild.
