Blargh. I just finished the redesign of the site and the WordPress team goes and releases 3.0! What bastards! Why did they have to include all kinds of awesome features, like:
custom backgrounds and headers
shortlinks
menus (no more file editing)
post types
taxonomies
long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress
It also includes a new default theme called Twenty Ten. It looks pretty sexy.
Sadly, Fedora Core 8 doesn’t ship a packaged version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.9 as of this writing) that includes movemail capabilities. Movemail is the account type (in Thunderbird) that allows you to read mail from your local system (in /var/spool/mail/[username]). If you run cron jobs, you should be getting emails about the status of those jobs in your local mail directory. Instead of having to read them through the command line, I wanted to read them through Thunderbird. Here’s a step-by-step on how to get it working:
Download movemail.rdf from the Mozilla repository. This includes the account type ‘Movemail’.
Save a copy of movemail.rdf to /usr/lib[64]/thunderbird-2.0.0.9/isp
Run the following: chmod 777 /var/spool/mail
Restart Thunderbird
In Thunderbird when adding a new account, select Movemail as the type, and follow the directions as usual.
All done! Hopefully, future versions of the Thunderbird package in Fedora’s repo. will be updated to include movemail, but until then, this works.
What do you get when you mix a hippie with Andre 3000 in the desert? A great cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya. We’ve been checking out the best of the best for our new Southern Arizona guide that should be out later this week and came across this amazing video of Mat Weddle from the local band Obadiah Parker playing in Tempe, Arizona. Enjoy.
While browsing one of my favorite tech-news sites, Digg.com, I found out that PREI has plans to demolish the old Bell Labs Holmdel Research Facility. While I am not old enough to have been a direct part of the historic research which was conducted at the facility, I am directly indebted to the men and women who did groundbreaking work there. Without them, I probably would not be pursuing a degree in Computer Science.
I first learned of the Holmdel Facility in my Networks class sophomore year. We learned all about cellphone technologies, network protocols, topologies and interfaces, as well as encryption algorithms. All these things were pioneered in the Holmdel Facility. Without that facility and the people inside, technology would not be what it is today. Hell, I might not be writing this entry on my blog if it weren’t for the folks in the Holmdel facility.
I think it is important that PREI looks past the financial gains which may be had at the expense of the destruction of one of the birthplaces of computing. Surely there is a fate more suited to such a historic site. It has been suggested that the site be converted into a technology and computing museum, or used to house offices for new technology companies. Sadly, this is probably a fate the site will never see.
