Category Archives: General

I’ve gone Free at work finally! Netscape was only started up this morning to export the addresses out of it. Imported into kmail now, and Netscape isn’t running! I even did rm -fr nsmail but only after tarring it up of course! I will have to run Netscape from time to time but not all the time. If only I could get kmail to launch urls in Galeon instead of Konueror, I’m sure there’s a way, I haven’t looked very hard.
Open Office works nicely thank you. I tried it on Linux and Windows and it’s much better than AbiWord, Kword, or Star Office. I haven’t had a chance to compare against Gnumeric yet and in fact I won’t use it much at all (thankfully!)

I read the in Irish Times this morning about the radio controlled rats. Imagine being stuck in a collapsed building – would you like to see a rat come scampering over to you?

Thanks to the top 40 I found out about Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About as well as other good stuff.

How to view uuencoded attachments in Kmail:

1. Download and install UUDeview.
2. In Kmail, click on Settings, Configure Filters and create a new filter.
3. Set up the filter to watch for a message that contains begin 664.
4. Under Filter Options, select pipe through and in the text box add
   tee temp/msg.txt; /usr/local/bin/xdeview temp/msg.txt ; rm -f temp/msg.txt
5. Under Advanced Options/Apply this filter unselect the option, to incoming messages, but make sure on manual filtering is on.
6. Click OK
7. Create a directory called temp in your home directory.

Anytime you get an email with uuencoded attachements simply select the message and press CTRL-J and a nice TCL dialog box will appear allowing you to save the attachements.

I might just use uudeview to automatically save the attached files to a directory and then open a file manager in that directory.

Helpful Links:

1. The Kmail FAQ.
2. Kmail thread on uuencoded attachements.
3. My ILUG posting about this.

I went looking through my list of referers this morning and found several hits from Google. It’s interesting to see that I’m the first link if someone searches for how to convert Netscape Mail folders to Kmail folders
I may as well post the small script I developed to do that:

#!/bin/sh
copydir()
{
    old=$1
    new=$2
    for i in $old/*
    do
        if [ -f $i ] ; then
        cp -va $i $new/
    fi
    done
}

for i in `find nsmail -iname "*sbd"`
do
        DIR=`echo $i | sed s/nsmail/Mail/`
        DIR=`echo "$DIR" | sed s/.sbd/.directory/g`
        DIR=`echo "$DIR" | sed "s/\//\/\./"g`
        mkdir -p $DIR
        copydir $i $DIR
done

This script goes through your nsmail directory and creates the same directory structure in your Kmail Mail directory. I did a recursive one too, but that would stop at about 3 or 4 levels of recursion. (I have a lot of mail!)
The one problem I had with Kmail was the fact that it didn’t understand the uuencoded attachements I got. That was a pain.

A lot of people seem to be looking for references to Bosco too! I wonder why? Is there going to be a revival? hehe.

Courtesy of Freshmeat:

Multi Gnome Terminal has been updated!

Scribus – DTP for Linux.

Ariadne – Open Source application server and CMS. Screenshot looks good!

Just upgraded to Galeon 1.2.1 and Mozilla 1.0RC1. Bookmarks and cookies were kept but fonts look terrible. Probably because I haven’t enabled TT fonts on this new install of RH7.2 yet. Hmm. Just noticed that the Publish button is gone. Must copy and paste this later.

TT Fonts look great!

I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been very busy!

From Dangerousmeta, Five tips for tuning Apache – I only used the first tip and it’s amazing the difference it makes! Instead of using fnctl I set the server to use pthreads, restarted, wow!

I found out yesterday that you can’t do the following in PHP 4.1.2 (or above I presume)
$array[ $index ] ++;
It’s a fatal error, but it worked fine in PHP3!
PHP4 sessions are very fast, I’m trying to teach phplib to use ’em but the documentation isn’t great (expect an article from me somewhere, sometime on this)

Cringely tells of his son’s death – I’m sorry for your trouble, nobody should go through what you and your partner must be living now. He’s looking for help in preventing SIDS, maybe you can help?

I heard on the radio this morning there may have been another rape in Cork City, this time in Bishopstown. I didn’t hear it on the national radio stations at all though.

Meta CVS – records renames and directory changes. Must try next week.

New version of Mplayer out!

Busy day, I’m going home. A few links first before I shutdown Galeon. (Stable? Yes, It’s been running for two days, I want to give the CPU cycles over to Setiathome!)

PHP Beginner

WineX CVS page

History of hardrives.

Baen Free Library. Al because of a fight.. hehe.

The power of outliners. I’ve never used one, I want to read this when I get home.

Segway News

What’s next for Google

Eircom won’t change. They were interviewed on 2FM today and people had high hopes for it, but we got the usual fob-off.

How our world could be turned upside down by the poles flipping!

Links found in various places. I want to read them at my leisure at home so what better way to bring them home than by posting here? Email? Nah..

235MPG – New VW car does almost 100km/lt! Via Meta Filter

ugh! I woke up this morning with a pain in my back, sore throat and shivering. After breakfast I feel much better!

Good news today from two sectors.
ODTR and Eircom settle. Eircom will launch DSL immediately.
Insurance report focuses on legal sector. Maybe we’ll get slightly cheaper car insurance. Pigs might fly?

And bad news too.
Esat limit the number of calls on Surf No-Limits. *grrr*

CDWOW – cheap(ish) CDs and DVDs if you live in Ireland. I presume they also have foreign sites too.

Journey to the furthest planets in Scientific American.

I read an article over the weekend about Scale Free Networks but can’t remember now which magazine it was in. Nature has an article which touches on it though.

Google, PHP and SOAP.