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Sharks, Terrors of the Deep

Prolific Publishing, the producer of my most favorite screensaver, SereneScreen Marine Aquarium, has just released Sharks, Terrors of the Deep 1.0 (so far only for Windows).

As mentioned earlier, I particularly like the story behind these screensavers. It’s proof that even nowadays, a single (though extra-ordinary) programmer can create an excellent, mature software application and earn a living of it (a thing you’d believe isn’t possible anymore in times of software mega-corps and FOSS).

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mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail

Update 20100331:

Important note: You shouldn’t adjust this preference by editing prefs.js directly as with current versions of Thunderbird, you either risk losing all your settings or that the setting doesn’t have any effect at all. Instead, you should do the following (as described in Thunderbird Help & Tips):

  1. Open Thunderbird’s Config Editor
  2. search for the preference mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new, and change its value to true.

Alternatively, you might want to take a look at the additional hints (e.g. how to configure Courier IMAP accordingly) in Mozillazine’s knowledge base about how to check for new mail in other folders.


add

user_pref(“mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, true);

to your profile’s prefs.js file.

it’s strange this isn’t the default setting. and there isn’t a gui for it either. perhaps an indication for a bad implementation causing unnecessary overhead? [source: Hidden Mozilla Prefs]

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some nice links

http://yp.shoutcast.com/ – free web radio directory
ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/net/ssh/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe – nice secure shell client for windows, including an ftp-like gui for ssh-tunnelled file transfers
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ – the well-known and “one and only” true bidirectional cross-platform file synchronizer
http://www.id.unizh.ch/software/antivirus/ – mcafee antivirus (only for students at the university of zurich)

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wheelmice and suse 9.0

as i couldn’t post my comment on maol’s recent blog entry (eventually due to a strange konqueror weirdness), i’m posting it here:

Bei mir funktioniert die Radmaus (Intellimouse Exploder 3.0) mit SuSE 9.0 prima (x86, nicht AMD64). XF86Config-Auszug:

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/mouse”
Option “Name” “Autodetection”
Option “Protocol” “imps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

[..]

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

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Angelic CMS ;)

There’s a new “Wikiblog-Blogwiki” called EngelWiki:

Those features are:

1. Everybody can read and comment the EngelWiki content, but only registered users can add and change existing content. To become a member you can ask one of the members to create you a login.
2. The contents of the EngelWiki are called pages (like in a Wiki). They are versioned and additional files like images, audio, video, pdf … can be added to the page. Following the permalink of a page you get links to all versions and attachments of that page.
3. The content of a page is formatted using WikiSyntax.
4. The WikiSyntax allows you to use WikiWords?. When creating a new page, you can give your page a title and a WikiWord?. Through the WikiWord? you can link to that page (always the latest version). When you want to link to an older version, you can use the permalink.
5. Aside from the pages there are profiles. A profile is a page of a user. Only he/she can change the contents of the page according to his/her ideas.
6. The orientation in the navigation bar helps to give an overview over all the Pages, Profiles and files in the File Garden.

Elke, I am looking forward to test-driving it on OpensourceCMS.com! :)