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30 January 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Making the HTC Hermes smartphone work with TextDrive email servers

oh the woes of having a Windows Mobile smartphone and trying to get it to work with my IMAP email server on TextDrive

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23 January 2007 ~ 3 Comments

WordPress 2.1 is released

The latest major update to WordPress has just been released and I have upgraded to it. Not this blog (yet) but a new one I am starting. More details soon. I felt that since I had only written a few drafts for that site, I may as well upgrade to test out the latest and [...]

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14 January 2007 ~ 2 Comments

My new server

A picture of my Christmas (anniversary?) present from Rie. It is a Kurobox HG, and it functions as a server. I have it running Gentoo Linux and it is small, quiet and cool (in both senses of the word).

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18 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Speed up IMAP searches on Thunderbird

(Well, sort of) In my last post I wrote how I had reorganised my mail system so that it was flatter and to rely on searches/virtual folders to organise my archives. And I mentioned the biggest drawback of this method is that searches take a while especially if you use IMAP like I do. I [...]

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15 August 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Restructure of my email system

A couple of days ago I did a massive restructure of my email system. The old system was based on folders and folders nested in folders which was efficient once the emails were filed but the problem is that it took too much mental energy to do so constantly. So what happened is that a [...]

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