18
Dec
2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:15 pm
I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]
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Tags: Config, Data, Mailserver, Problem, Software, Thunderbird
07
Sep
2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:30 pm
Over the past couple of weeks I have been moving the mailserver project closer to being ready for actual use and another milestone has been passed. I have now reached the stage where my hotmail and gmail accounts are collected onto the server and made availiable via IMAP. This has not been without problems, I [...]
Posted in Computer, Gentoo, Linux, Project, Software |
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Tags: Gentoo, Linux, Mailserver, Problem, Software, Spam, update
23
Dec
2008
Posted by Quantum at 2:26 am
In the past few weeks I purchased some new Anti-virus and Firewall software from ESET to replace my expiring & bloated AVG install. The first machine to get the upgrade was my XP desktop machine; everything went well. I was impressed with the lighter feel to the software and the added fact that it didn’t [...]
Posted in Computer, Gentoo, Linux, My Opinion, Software |
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Tags: Antivirus, Firewall, Gentoo, Linux, Microsoft, Problem, Security, Software, Vista, XP
28
Jun
2008
Posted by Quantum at 2:11 pm
It’s that time again when another peice of my IT equipment has died. When I say died it’s more akin to requiring the replacement of several major organs at the same time. Thurday night I was going about my usual activities of checking email and surfing the web with my windows desktop and 24/7 linux [...]
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Tags: Failure, Fan, Linux, Motherboard, Nvidia, Problem, Silicon Heaven, Troubleshooting, Windows