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This is of course belated, as I'm sending it on the 18th, but Happy Birthday to Lori!
One thing about MacWorld should excite mp3 junkies -- the iPod just got
even bigger, with a 20GB version and Apple officially endorses Windows
compatibility. Actually, the good news is, the 5GB and 10GB versions
came down in price. Hearing that the only "officially" functional
Windows player is MusicMatch Jukebox Plus is a serious downer, in my
opinion. Sure, MusicMatch is a decent player, but with plenty of great
free players on the market, why do we want to purchase a software
player in addition to the $299+ hardware unit?
At first glance, it looks like Apple is only paying lipservice to true
Windows compatibility. I've seen no mention of any additional
functionality, besides song management via one media playing utility. Mediafour's
XPlay remains a
better option, in my opinion. In addition to allowing you to use an
iPod with almost any media player made for Windows, it assists with
contact management, via Outlook vCards, in addition to making the
iPod an additional drive on your PC. At a mere $10 more than MusicMatch
Jukebox Plus, XPlay blows the doors off Apple's officially endorsed player.
Lori and I made the five and a half hour drive to St. Louis for this year's
SIC without a hitch. I just missed a
face-to-face introduction to John Lal, of
winferno.com, although I'm sure
we'll meet tomorrow. John's the guy behind the
free copy of Research-Desk
for all Gnomedex attendees. Shortly after arrival, I enjoyed dinner with
the eSellerate gang, with a
discussion about GnomeTomes and
what the future holds.
Every time I travel, I'm reminded just how slow dialup really is. Fortunately, my
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services. Crosspaths is technically an Iowa ISP, although the have points of
presence in almost every major city in the country. If you're a dialup user,
you may want to take a look at their offerings, regardless of where you live. Lori
has used their DSL service for two years now, and they've been nothing short of
outstanding in dealing with customer service queries.
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"If you browse to a Web page that contains an image that has a transparent
background in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, the image background
may appear to be gray rather than transparent."
Fortunately, Microsoft explains a solution for this problem. Personally, I
haven't encountered this PNG display error, but for those of you
simplementing PNGs on your sites, you'll want to review the solution.
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something entertaining here, and if you need a logo designed, Von Robert
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including stock images and even some icons by the artist's seven year old
daughter. A must read is the anatomy of an illustration section, which lays
down artistic opinion, straight from Glitschka's mouth on how to make a
funny creation. The entertainment is accessible accross both Windows and Mac
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so you're getting label quality releases, without the jacked-up retail
price tag. The mp3s let you decide if the album is worth you $4.95.
The only thing I find odd about this site is their proclamation of
paying artists 50% of distribution profits, which I have to assume is
50% of zero, since the CDs are free. The artist selection contains
some solid releases by talented artists, regardless.
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Before directing Catch-22 and The Graduate, Mike Nichols made his big screen debut directing this adroit adaptation of Edward Albee's play "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"  Nominated for thirteen, and winner of five, Academy Awards, this dark tale centers on history professor George (Richard Burton), and his wife Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), daughter of the college president.  At first George and Martha appear to be the average Ozzie and Harriet, an aging, well-adjusted, educated couple, comfortable with their lives and their love.  George and Martha quickly shatter this illusion, as they return from a faculty cocktail party, to exchange a caustic barrage of verbal barbs.  Just as quickly, however, the couple turns witty and civil when the young new biology professor Nick (George Segal) and his shy, but pretty wife Honey (Sandy Dennis) stop by for a nightcap. Unfortunately for Nick and Honey, the sardonic exchange does not disappear, it merely changed guise.  Soon Nick and Honey find themselves helpless pawns in the elder couple's sick-witted exchange.  Throughout the remainder of the movie, George and Martha dance their finely choreographed, oft-rehearsed dance of despise. The two alternate the lead, alternately dishing out and enabling the abuse, but they never miss a step.  Thankfully, writer Albee's sublime play translates to the big screen almost unadulterated. Taylor and Burton deliver his lines with great force and impeccable timing.  At one point George proposes "Now that we're through with Humiliate the Host...and we don't want to play Hump the Hostess yet...how about a little round of Get the Guests?"  This provides some idea of the precarious twist of uncomfortable wit that drives the action from start to finish. Albee's stellar writing notwithstanding, the real star of this film is Taylor and Burton's alchemy, converting Albee's words into cinematic gold.  Ok, I will grant you that playing a pair of aging, drunk, selfish lovers may not have been much of a stretch.  Both actors, however, deliver their lines with the chilling reality of a serial killer describing his most gratifying slaying.  Often unpleasant and disturbing, this film never allows you to relax or look away.   Simultaneously seamlessly smooth, and ingeniously rocky this is not a "feel good" movie. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is, however, a memorable film that will stick with you for years to come.
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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2002
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As of Monday, July 15, AnchorDesk is being published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, instead of five days a week. The AnchorDesk Weekly newsletter will continued to be published every Friday
Why are we doing this? There are several reasons, but the most important one is giving me a chance do more than just sit behind a desk typing all day in order to meet deadlines.  I've been writing five columns a week for 18 months now, and I'd be lying to you if I didn't admit to being more than a little tired.
Also, I've been on such a short leash that I haven't been able to travel or meet as many people as I'd like. This new schedule means I'll have more time to get out, learn more, see more products, and discover new issues or trends. So it should result in a more interesting and useful AnchorDesk for you.
Having additional time also means I will be able to work on several projects I've been assigned, including one that could bear fruit at the Consumer Electronics Show next January. More about that soon, once all the details are nailed down.
For now, the new schedule is being called a "test," which means it could turn out to be temporary--or maybe not. We'll run it through the end of the summer and see how it works.
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Konqueror, while a great browser, has taken a step in the direction of IE. Like IE, Konqueror is really an integrated web and file browser. You can use it equally well to view web pages and files on your system. It's been something of a hot debate whether this is actually the proper use of a browser. In fact, Galeon was written specifically to answer this question - it's a web browser and a web broswer only.
Regardless, it can be a bit annoying to punch the Home button on the Konqueror browser and end up in your /home/user directory. Have no fear, though. It's an easy change to make your actual web home page the home page in Konqueror.
Open Konqueror and select Settings from the toolbar. Select "Configure Konqueror," and leave the default selection of "File Manager" as is. In the text box on the right half of the screen, you'll see a tilde in the "Home URL" text box. That just tells Konqueror to use the user's home directory as the home URL. Changing this to a web address will set that address as your home page. Select OK to close the window.
Taking it one step further, click on the Home button in your Konqueror browser to open your newly-configured web home page. Then, select "Window" and "Save View Profile, 'Web Browsing.'" This will futher save the URL and allow your the opportunity to save the window size when the browser opens.
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Depending on who you talk to, RAID can stand for "Redundant Array of Independent Discs" or "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Discs." No matter. They both point to the same theory and practice in Linux; data storage redundancy. That's today's kernel configuration section - Multi-Device Support.
Let's talk first about the principles behind a RAID setup. RAID uses multiple discs for speed, increased data storage, or data redundancy. Fundamentally, there are 5 levels of RAID in Linux; Linear, RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-4, and RAID-5.
Linear RAID uses two or more discs, appending data from one to another. In other words, when disc 1 is full, disc 2 steps in to store data. There is no redundancy in Linear RAID - only an increase in storage capacity. Further, there's no marked increase in data access speed because you're accessing one drive in the RAID array at a time.
RAID-0 "stripes" data across the RAID drives. Some data will be written to the first drive, some to the second, etc. Like Linear RAID, RAID-0 provides no redundancy. Because the data has been written in parallel across the drives, not all data exists on all drives. Lose a drive and your data is gone. RAID-0 will, however, decrease data access time. Your system will run more quickly.
RAID-1, unlike Linear and RAID-0, does provide data redundancy. This is the first level in which data is "mirrored" across the drives in the RAID array. All data that exists on one drive exists on all the others. RAID-1 requires at least two drives and they should be of equal size, otherwise, your overall RAID array will be the size of the smallest drive. Performance with RAID-1 can actually be slower than with a single drive or RAID-0, as all the data is written across multiple discs.
RAID-4 is, for the most part, pretty useless. It reserves one disc for parity information while striping the data across the others. This is much like Linear mode, with an additional disc thrown in for parity data. Parity data can be used to reconstruct and retrieve the data on the other drives, but this really isn't a redundant method of data storage. Consequently, RAID-4 is probably the least used of the RAID schemes.
RAID-5 is designed for 3 or more discs and provides both redundancy and speed. Like RAID-4, RAID-5 pays close attention to parity data. However, rather than reserving a device in the RAID array for this data, it's written across the array. Because the parity data is written across the array, data recovery can be accomplished fairly quickly. In fact, using a "spare disc" configuration will allow RAID-5 to reconstruct the data to the spare disc immediately after the failure of a drive. Because of it's increased speed and redundancy, RAID-5 is probably the most common setup for multiple storage devices.
With all that in mind, you'll need to make a choice in your kernel configuration. Do you have mutliple drives of the same size that you'd like to configure as a RAID array? The Multi-Device Support section of the kernel configuration will allow you to do this. In fact, you'll be able to set the RAID level, as well. Again, evaluate your needs and select the appropriate option.
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OS X and it is grossly inadequate and on Linux with Wine and have so far
been unsuccessful even using tips from
 I hope that GnuCash
will eventually support the online features I enjoy but that doesn't
help now.
"The reason I'm writing this is that I personally think Office products
are overrated for home users, at least now that there are several native
alternatives. For home users, finance apps are the key issue now. Do a
section on getting Quicken to run in Wine and I'll declare you a god. :)"
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I don't go to many concerts, but that doesn't mean I don't
appreciate listening to good
music at every waking moment. Tonight, a handful of Bay
Gnomies and I watched They Might Be Giants rock the Fillmore.
Melanie, Steve, Brent, Missy, Robert, Patrick, Gretchen, Matt, and
Mindy had a total blast. Well, it wasn't much fun when Robert got
his digital camera confiscated - but this was a show worthy of
five megapixels
(believe me)! Brent went to
the show last night, and I saw them play on the set earlier this
afternoon. They were selling a new CD (which had JUST been
released the other day); "They Got Lost" is full of a few
previously-unavailable tracks. If you aren't sure about purchasing
it outright, I strongly urge you to sign up for a trial EMusic account and download
a few of their songs in MP3 format. Oh, and check out the opening
act: Noe Venable. She's got
a few free MP3s on
her site, too. Give "Boots" a shot - very nice.
Does anybody know how to set a binary clock? Melanie got it for me
as a gift (which was a very nice gesture). Sure, I could read the
manual - but the ones and zeros start to look eerily similar after
flipping past the first page. You know me: I'm not much of a math
guy. In fact, I just discovered the other day that 'byte' was
short for 'by eight' (even though I already knew that 'bit'
represented 'binary digit'). I'd stick with a digital timepiece,
but it just isn't geeky enough for me anymore. How sad is that?
I'm ready to walk on the wild side. Maybe I'll get my laptop
pierced tomorrow? It could happen. I've been known to do nutty
things on a moment's notice, like changing my default Web browser.
Courtesy of Asa
Dotzler, I have an official Mozilla sticker, CD, and t-shirt
(which you saw me model in my Webcam the other day). Don't be too
jealous; Mozilla.org has
plenty of goodies to go around.
Looks as though Jake
and Lori are already having a blast in St. Louis.
They're at the Shareware Industry Conference, along with hundreds
of well-known program programmers - the people who make our
computers work the way we want them to work! We're doing our best
to convince them to join us at Gnomedex. They ask: "Who else
is going to be there?" We answer: "People who don't know you yet."
They ask: "Then why should I come?" We answer: "Because it's a
business opportunity for you." They ask: "What if I don't want to
learn anything or meet anybody?" We answer: "We can't really help
you there, but here - have lunch on us." They ask: "Oh, the
admission price includes food at at Gnomedex?" We answer: "We
cannot provide every meal, but you won't go hungry." They ask:
"So, why Des Moines, when there's nothing to do there." We answer:
"You're 100% wrong. There *IS* something to do there: Gnomedex."
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{String on your finger} Sometimes, I'm a bit like the absent-minded professor... I would forget my own head if it wasn't attached. So naturally, I appreciate any program that can help keep me on track, and with GigAlarm I can setup whatever reminders/alarms I need. However, sometimes a simple text message just won't catch my attention. Well, herein lies the beauty of GigAlarm... it doesn't just have to give you a text alarm! GigAlarm can play a WAV file (random, or your selection), change your background, start a program, or use one of the many Windows shutdown options. My wife has gotten in the habit of using the Shutdown option as an alarm to signal that I have spent too long on the computer. (Lucky for me, there is a snooze button!) NOTE: The author says, "This program is essentially free to use for non-profit purposes... If you find this program useful I would appreciate $10 AUD (or $5 USD) as a token of your appreciation."
Context Thumbview v1.0.b1 [107k] W9x/2K/XP FREE

{Peep show} I'm not always very patient, especially when it comes to my computer. Double-clicking on an image and waiting for it to come up in my image viewer is almost too much for me to handle. Lucky for me, Context Thumbview has made its way onto my system and I no longer have to wait to view an image. All I do now is right-click the image, choose "View Thumbnail," and there is the image, out there for me to see... all without me having to open up any programs! "As Express ThumbView is an Explorer extension, it is always ready and available for use. Moreover, it is available in any Explorer window, including Open and Save As... dialog boxes." As an added bonus, with Context Thumbview installed on my system, I can also turn off the thumbnail view if I want to save system resources.
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{Startup manager} This application bills itself as "Yet Another Startup Manager"... I don't think so! Starter isn't JUST another Startup Manager, it's a piece of programming art. One of my biggest problems with Windows Task Manager is that I don't know what all the processes on my machine are, or from where they are running. Starter not only gives me that information, but it also lets me save it as an HTML file. In addition, Starter lets me import and export registry keys or add a new task to be processed. Don't run all over your machine trying to find all the programs you need to control your PC, when you can do it all (and more!) with Starter.
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{Sticky notes} Did you know that Post-it(r) Notes were invented by accident? I use to have these notes all over my monitor. Now my screen is clean as a whistle! Aversoft Sticker is a program to help you remember "important information by displaying skinnable sticky notes on your Windows desktop." No more bland notes for me! With Sticker, I am surrounded with pictures of paradise (downloaded from Aversoft's website). These great features are no accident. Sticker also has a transparency feature that makes the notes only half visible, making it much easier to use while working on your other programs. Don't walk away yet though... Sticker also allows you to print your notes, lock them from accidentally being deleted, and set an alarm (repeating or one-time). Speaking of alarms, mine just went off and opened up Outlook. Time to send out today's newsletter!
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{We is smart} Those Saturday morning folks at ABC were right: it's great to learn, 'cause knowledge is power. I highly encourage everyone to learn something new each day, and with Wikipedia.com you can! Wikipedia is a free, and very thorough online encyclopedia; you'll be hard-pressed to stump this information tool with an undocumented topic. Know what you're looking for? Then just use the search tool. In the mood to fill your cranium with a few new thought processes? Just browse through any one of Wikipedia's many categories until you find a subject that piques your interest. From Physics to Opera; from Anthropology to Cooking, you will find it all here. Now, all that is missing is you! Take a look and beef up your gray matter.
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Gnomies are known for their willingness to help others and Alex Warren is no exception with a tip on copying text. Alex writes: "Did you know that you can copy the contents of a message/dialog box just by pressing Ctrl+C?" Alex also had this to say: "When you select text and then use the mouse to drag it to a new location, the original text moves to the new location and disappears from the old location. However, you can select text and then use the right mouse button to drag it to a new location. When you do this, releasing the right mouse button opens a menu from which you can choose to move or copy the text (along with several other options)." Those are some great time saving tips Alex! Following suit with using Ctrl + C to copy... you can also use Ctrl + X to cut and Ctrl + V to paste. You can also use all these tips on more then just text! The next time you need to copy some files on your PC, try the right-click and drag method and you will see what I mean... along with saving yourself some time.
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I thought I baked my Dell PowerEdge 1400SC server yesterday
when it refused to boot completely. I borrowed a data vac
from a friend and decided to clean all of the dust and cat
hair from my systems, then after reconnecting everything,
the server would boot to the initial splash screen, where
there is a POST progress bar, but would not proceed past
past about the first 1/5th of the bar. Uh-oh. What did I
fry?
As it turns out, it was another case of "always check the
small stuff". Oh, I had all of the cables plugged back in to
the server properly, I checked all of that, but it didn't
dawn on me until about a half dozen boot attempts later that
I should probably turn an eye toward the other end of the
cables. That server is connected to an 8-port Compaq KVM
switch and with all of the yanking, plucking and shuffling,
the keyboard cable had been eeked out of the switch just a
tad. Why the server didn't display a keyboard warning
message like every other computer on the planet, I can only
attribute to the BIOS developers. Server Satchel, running
Red Hat Linux 7.2 is now operating as it was previously. The
penguin is happy. The server case is even black. How
appropriate...
See You in August,              Randy Nieland
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Windows XP Security Checklist
Finely crafted by Bernie Klinder

With all of the security features crammed into Windows XP,
where does one start? Do you need VPN capability? Is NTFS an
appropriate file system choice for you? Is there any value
at all in Simple File Sharing? After much hounding, Bernie
Klinder has drawn up a healthy checklist of things you need
to address under Windows XP in order to maintain a system
that is both security and compatible with the rest of your
computing world.
GnomeSYSTEM
ATI Still Makes Video Cards?

Say it isn't so! Yes, apparently they do still have
something to say about NVIDIA's dominance in the video card
market. Seeing as how they've been all but dumped by the
majority of top-tier system makers, it's hard to believe
that they are capable of a serious comeback. Judging from
what AnandTech has to say about the forthcoming R300-based
cards, it appears that they haven't thrown in the towel just
yet. I'm all for competition, so I welcome the effective re-
entrance into the high end market. Let's all hope that their
driver development has improved as much as their hardware
seems to have.
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Technical Censorship

Odd. I liked that cup of Mocha (spelled M-O-C-H-A and I'll explain in a minute) I drank at Starbucks when Jake and I visited last week, but if I wanted to relay that to someone using a Yahoo email account, you might see an alternate word. Thus the additional hyphenated spelling just in case those of you using Yahoo to subscribe to Lockergnome actually received your issues and the word has been altered to suit their personal opinion of my choice in drinks. They've also had a terrible time interpretting our W3C standardized HTML lately, dropping in copious #message references throughout the text in their new Beta email client. So why the text replacement? It's another filtering technique to stop certain words that might relate to JavaScript functions. I guess I'll have to choose another beverage next time. Silly me.
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Yer Kidding... Really?

I'm all sorts of sarcastic today, aren't I? Those of us
that have had to manage budgets are used to dealing with
math in terms of hardware, software, maintenance and
personnel costs. It's not really that difficult. It's
certainly not hard to see that dropping a free version of
Linux on a server with less hardware requirements just to do
some file sharing, printing and maybe an Intranet page or
three is far cheaper than using Windows. At very long last,
Microsoft has admitted as much. Of course, they're quick to
point out that they have much more to offer than Linux,
which may indeed be true. But at the end of the day, when
you compare donuts to donuts and like functions against one
another, Linux is cheaper. For a shop of Windows-trained
staff, dealing with Linux will certainly be a challenge,
requiring additional training, suffer the odd blunder here
and there, and be less forgiving when it comes to detailed
configuration. On the same token, make a Linux whiz use
Windows and see how quickly you'll be searching for a
replacement. Cheap is in the budget of the beholder.
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If the nation's politicians expect Silicon Valley to fall in line on the issue of expensing stock options, they're living in a fantasy world.
Flipping through my Rolodex this past week, I couldn't find one solitary technology type willing to support even the mildest proposal to change how corporations account for stock options. The more common response was a verbal "middle finger" shouted in the general direction of Washington.
No surprises, there. The options argument is not just about putting food on the table--make that a lot of food, in some cases--but about the way the computer industry views itself. Tech companies believe they belong in a different category, say, from the likes of Coca Cola, Washington Post Co. and Bank One Corp.--all which recently decided to begin expensing stock options.
Tech titans also served notice they will remember to support friends--and shun foes--in Washington next November. An empty threat? Perhaps, but consider this: in the last national election, the computer industry contributed more than $40 million (52 percent to Democrats, 46 percent to Republicans.) That was good for a seventh place ranking, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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I've very excited about the in-planning Penguin Shell volunteer project.
Apparently, you are too. I've received more than 100 emails from readers volunteering a wide range of IT skills for charitable organizations.
Linux users, Windows users, even a few Mac users are ready, willing and able to
spend their own precious off time providing qualified technical skills for a
good cause. I've also gotten more than two dozen suggestions for organizations that might be in need of such skills. And, I've
seen some very interesting suggestions for names for our project. Feel free to click through on any of the
above links to join the ever-growing bandwagon. Do me a favor, though. keep the
subject lines intact. It's the only way your messages will filter and sort
through my email system.
It looks like Apple may have crossed a line of irritation with its users.
According to this article on The Register, Apple has tacked a $100 annual fee on its
previously free mac.com email service. It's also set the price for an OS 10.2
upgrade at $129.
I won't question Apple's decision too much. Instead, it really proves how
difficult things have become in the tech world in the past few years. Revenues,
by and large, are still decreasing from the pie-in-the-sky late 90s and early
2000. That's left companies to scramble for new sources of income, some of which
were previously free. Even we at Lockergnome have felt the pinch in the past few
years. Never fear, though. Chris has assured us that the newsletters will remain
free. We have, however, begun to explore alternative income sources.
On a brighter note, it looks like Mandrake has found a sweet spot. According to their most
recent shareholder's report, the third quarter was the strongest in the
company's
history, with 1.6 million Euro (1.61 million US) in revenue. That doesn't put
them in the black, though. According to MandrakeSoft, the strong quarter will
only decrease operating losses. I have to wonder how much of this revenue was
the result of the Mandrake Linux User's
Club.
The news also makes me want to pay a bit more attention to Mandrake's newest
partnership venture, an agreement with Microtel to provide Mandrake-loaded computers for sale on WalMart.com.
I would never have guessed that WalMart would lead the consumer Linux machine
charge. They've had Mandrake boxes available for several months. Now, with the
addition of both Lindows
and Mandrake-equipped computers, they seem surprisingly ahead of the retail
computer pack. Let's hope for the best for all involved.
Have a great Wednesday.
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Checking Mail With KMail
I've recently become a KDE convert - impressed enough with KDE-3 to move me from
my longtime desktop friend Gnome. While I use a combination of fetchmail,
procmail and pine for reading and filtering my email, KMail is a strong
contender in the email race. As you'd guess, it's fully integrated into the KDE
desktop, ready for a quick setup and easy use.
There's one drawback to KMail, though, in my opionion. That's that it doesn't
automatically check your email by default when the program is opened. As much
time as I spend talking about saving key and mouse strokes, you knew the
additional step to check your email after opening the program would be an
irritation to this Penguin. However, changing the problem is a quick and simple
configuration issue.
To force KMail to check your email when opened, right-click on the KMail icon in
your KDE panel. Select "Preferences" and the "Execute" tab. In the Execute
window, change the command line to read:
kmail --check -caption "%c" %i %m
The addition of the --check option will force KMail to bring you your mail when
you open the program.
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Kernel Configuration - Part XIII
As you well know, Linux is simply the most robust operating system for
networking around. With its roots squarely in the network, Linux has managed to
stay ahead of the pack in virtually every respect related to networks. It should
come as little suprise, then, that the network section of your Linux kernel
configuration is dense with details and options.
I will say that I warned you on Monday - there are going to be some sections of
the kernel configuration series where I just can't give you a stock
configuration that will work in every case. Networking is one of those areas.
You're going to have to give some thought as to how your network is or will be
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