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Posts from December 2007

Finally got permalinks working

I’ve never been able to get Wordpress working with pretty permalinks - the Apache mojo needed to turn http://www.kataan.org/?p=1200 to http://www.kataan.org/this-is-a-blog-post without breaking static links. There’s a way to make it work to limit the mod_rewrite commands to ignore non-wordpress URLs. It should work, but doesn’t. I wonder if it’s a Dreamhost-specific configuration thing.
My workaround?
I [...]


Email WayBack Machine

My first POP3 email client ever was Eudora. in 1992, we started a process to replace QuickMail at Berkeley Systems. We replaced a system with 7 servers managing a small mail load with a single BSD box running POP3 and Eudora.
I used Eudora at several jobs and at home, until HTML formatted email, SPAM, and [...]


Web mail or IMAP?

 I’m an IMAP fan, and have reluctantly moved over to Gmail. Gmail is the least intrusive of the webmails out there, and I like the threading feature.
Nothing, but NOTHING bugs me more than seeing a flashing/animated ad on the page while I’m trying to compose an email.
Merlin Mann has a good thread going at 43Folders [...]