For quite some time I have been wanting to get my ~ 1GB worth of email archives out of Outlook’s proprietary format, with an eye towards eventually moving off of Outlook completely, but the process hasn’t been easy. I’ve tried several tools for importing Outlook mail into mbox/mbx format but all have barfed on my […]
Tag Archive for 'linux'
Linux Lovin’
30Jan03More on KHTML vs. Gecko
15Jan03CNET’s “Apple snub stings Mozilla” article has the Mozilla crew in a tizzy. Here’s a choice weblog quote:
It really gives me pause. They are talking about Mozilla from over a year ago. They are talking about a pre-1.0 Mozilla release. Mozilla has gotten a lot better since that evaluation [Chris Blizzard, Mozilla developer and RedHat […]
K-What?
13Jan03I was as shocked as everyone else over Apple’s decision to base their web browser on the KHTML renderer. Unlike most, I actually knew what KHTML is and spent some time upgrading one of my VMware’d Linux installations from KDE 2 to KDE 3 to see if KHTML has improved.
The good news is that KHTML […]
Tabbed Window Managers
10Jan03PWM and Fluxbox are tabbed window managers for X11. I kinda like Fluxbox, need to play with it some more…
Linux-powered Cell Phones?
09Jan03IDG: Linux heading for cell phones.
NEC Corp. said Wednesday it is working on the development of Linux-based cell phones with MontaVista Software Inc., and an executive of the Sunnyvale, California, software company said it is in talks with other major cellular handset makers on similar projects.
Getting There
07Jan03Have slowly gotten my Linux box back into shape under Debian. apt-get rocks, yada yada, except that the Stable feed is terribly out of date. PHP is a prime example, v4.1.2 from February of last year, 5 releases behind current. All of my PHP code depends on changes released with v4.2.0, over 8 months ago.
Pulling […]
Shifting
03Jan03Finally got more RAM for my desktop machine, bringing it from 512MB to 896MB. VMware gets more memory and I don’t have to shut it down to run Visual Studio, yippie.
Moved the freed up 128MB stick to my Linux box… Redhat 8’s GUI is still a dog. Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Server had […]
Microsoft and Linux
23Dec02Reuters: META Predicts Microsoft Will Offer Linux Software.
META Group predicted that Linux will be used on nearly half of new servers by 2007, up from its current share of 15 to 20 percent, making it difficult for Microsoft to ignore Linux as a platform for its database, Web hosting and e-mail server applications.
“We believe that, […]
