Looks like Mozilla has released the roadmap for Thunderbird 2.0. An excerpt: 1.1 Goals Inline spell checking (spell as you type) Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org Deleting attachments from e-mail Auto Save As Draft Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, [...]
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Systrace In OpenBSD
February 8th, 2005 · No Comments · OpenBSD, Security
Just thought I’d mention a nice sample chapter from Secure Architectures with OpenBSD that’s been posted online. It serves as a nice beginners tutorial for all you systrace n00bs out there. Excerpt: The OpenBSD default system comes with a policy enforcement tool named systrace, which provides a way to monitor, intercept, and restrict system calls. [...]
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The greatness of Debian with the optimization of Gentoo
January 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Linux
For the past few months I’ve been playing with Gentoo as my workstation OS. This after being a die hard Debian fan for years. The reason I’ve made the switch is Gentoo Portage system. Being modelled after the BSD ports system I LOVE it. Also, it’s other plus point is being able to compile stuff [...]
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Dutch firefox ad campaign
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Some people in Holland are collecting money for a firefox ad in the Dutch newspaper, “De Telegraaf” to heighten firefox awareness. The idea of course is inspired by the succesfull ad placed in the New York Times. The cost of the Ad is about 53.000 euros for a single page colour advertisement and 36.000 euros [...]
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Richard Stallman interviewed on Kerneltrap
January 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Open Source
KernelTrap has a fascinating and lengthy interview with Richard Stallman. If you don’t know who this guy is, he’s the one who founded the GNU Project in 1984, and the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He also originally authored a number of well known and highly used development tools, including the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), [...]
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Put Firefox on speed
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Seems that the fellows at forevergeek.com have written a little tutorial to make Firefox faster. It basically comes down to setting it to pre-emptively cache more data while you’re surfing: 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make [...]
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