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I used to be a big mutt fan, but with the growing amount of HTML mail I recieve, it became too much of a chore, combined with the fact that IMAP offline support is a bit kludgy (I’ve used both isync � offlineimap) I abandoned mutt some time ago and move to Thunderbird. Thunderbird has better offline IMAP support, but it’s very mouse driven, but there are some handy extensions that can make it easier to use from the keyboard.

I’ve been playing around with some cobbled together pppd � chat scripts to get my Novatel Wireless U630 working under Ubuntu, with a Vodafone UK Data SIM (I think most of the problmes come from VF UK’s DNS Servers being broken in some odd way) <p> I just kick this off with a &#8220;pppd debug vodafone-U630&#8221; in a root terminal window. </p> <div> PPS The Windows based Novatel tool is able to tell me all sorts of into about signal strength etc, as is the 3rd party tool MWConn, I wonder are there any specs around that would let us get similar info in a non-Windows environment?

You need to go and listen to this, pure class. http://www.myspace.com/oppenheimer http://www.oppenheimermusic.co.uk [name dropping] Rocky worked at a recording studio I used to break stuff at.. [/name dropping]

I’ve recently been involved in migrating some old JBoss web portal applications from one physical location to another, along the way there were some new security hurdles to jump, including moving all URLs from http to https. One of the components in this service had a hard coded URL to the http address. We could have fixed this with an Apache rewrite rule, but the security folks would still have been on our backs.

http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/some-killer-questions-to-ask-in-your-next-job-interview/

suspicion2.jpg (JPEG Image, 700×938 pixels) Are you a terrorist and you don’t even know it?

http://www.eoghanmccabe.com/naive-by-design/irish-web-app-development-a-team-to-the-rescue/

Yeah, what he said:

Is it right that you should live in dread of the phone ringing? Or opening your email? I’m not talking about being stalked, or chased by creditors. I’m talking about the latest communication from the office. It’s not right that your heart drops when you have a missed call from somebody, or email from somebody.

Kudos to Tom Rossi over at the www.themolehill.com, where I have just read one of the best intro’s to RoR yet, simple, clean � informative. Many of the articles I have read over recent months either work too hard at showing how quickly you can do stuff, or how brief Ruby is, without giving the detail to help put the pieces of the puzzle together. (i.e. I’m a system admin coder/hacker, I know what MVC is, but I’ve never used it in anger, I’m used to scripting out problems � fiddling with databases)