Once again I find myself wanting a better way to organise contacts databases.

ankaret posted a locked article expressing befuddlement at this BBC news article expressing befuddlement about:
You shouldn't open a spam e-mail, because as soon as you open the e-mail up, it notifies the organisation that has sent that, saying this is a valid e-mail address. They know how long you've looked at it, when you looked at it and did you go ( Read more... )

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Since one of the early heavy rains, which entered the house via the window near my desk and assaulted my Kensington ExpertMousePro the top-left and scroll-wheel-depress buttons have both been producing the button-code of both of them - mostly a minor annoyance because wheel-depress wasn't bound to anything ( Read more... )

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Go Go Debian Iceweasel.

Lots of thought and effort goes into synchronising addressbooks on phones and PDAs and corporate mail servers and the like, and the biggest problem of the lot is that your data goes out of date. Of course, with in a corporation there are often complex X.500/LDAP setups which solve some of this problem, but because these aren't globally accessible ( Read more... )

I have a service (It's a diplomacy play-by-email Judge) which operates via email. I'd like to add some IM capability as well, and Jabber seems like a fairly good place to start (and probably stop). What I basically need are the following:

• A non-interactive tool for sending Jabber messages, with an interface kind of similar to sendmail(8)/mail(1).
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I fear that sysklogd and exim4 are in danger of turning me into
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