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 [...]

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 [...]

Do you think it is possible to create an AIM client using Perl and AJAX? On the x10hosting forums someone started a thread about creating an online AOL Instant Messenger client. He cited WebAIM.net and AIMonPSP.com.
I then realized that Perl has functionality for connecting to AOL’s servers. I once made an AIM [...]

So I think I may be in over my head…. Night Light is turning out to be a bigger challenge than I thought it would be. You could definitely say I hit a dead-end. While I do have a functional system, it’s not totally complete. The one major factor is the [...]

Since it’s the summer, I have some free time on my hands. With all this free time, I have been hatching a few ideas in this big head of mine. I don’t know where they come from, but I think they could be useful, and I think it might be cool to start [...]

Ok, so I came across this on Digg. Originally, it was an mp3 of a guy trying to cancel his AOL account. It started out simple enough… he called up John at AOL Customer Service and asked to cancel the account. Somewhere along the line, John thought it would be a good [...]

So I thought it wouild be cool if I installed Microsoft Windows Vista. You know… preview the newest OS from MS before it hits the market. After running through the first part of the installation procedure where it asked me for the product key, the installation volume and the installation type the computer [...]

Here is a great extension for iTunes, called iTunes Art Importer 0.9.2. It’s a nifty little program written to search Amazon.com for album art of the music in your iTunes music library. Kinda cool if you ask me. It has some nifty features like auto assignment of the best album art choice. [...]

In an article for Wired Magazine, Jim Martz explains what Distributed Computing is and how it helps to analyze large amounts of data by spreading it across multiple computers. A first in this area was SETI@home, which searched for extra-terrestrial life using a screensaver to have users scan radio signals.
Martz proposes how, with [...]

From www.washingtonpost.com
www.elitetorrents.org was shutdown on Wednesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security. Visitors to the site are welcomed by a bright red screen declaring the site permanently shutdown as well as warning of prosecution and punishment for online illegal activities.
The site also warns that organizers and users of the [...]