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Enabling IMAP SSL and TLS encryption for mail-notifier under Ubuntu

Monday, 14 December 2009 12:30 Mike Houston
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After struggling all morning to find or compile a mail notification applet that supports TLS encryption under Ubuntu, I finally read all the way to the end of the Launchpad bug for mail-notifier (all 119 comments) and found David Jurenka's time-saving PPA with SSL support enabled. Thanks David!
Last Updated on Monday, 14 December 2009 12:34
 

Shorter Bash Prompts

Friday, 05 June 2009 13:10 Mike Houston
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I use Java a lot, and the common practice of naming java packages with long URI-derived namespaces often leads to my bash prompt becoming extremely long. Here's a script to display an abbreviated path on the bash prompt.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 June 2009 23:15 Read more...
 

Distributed Computing Projects

Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:09 Mike Houston
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I've been participating in the ABC@Home (maths) project for a while now, and this week I've also started contributing to Rosetta@Home (biology). Here are my stats! :)

Last Updated on Monday, 02 February 2009 18:00
 

Brief introduction to PolyORB

Monday, 10 November 2008 18:42 Mike Houston
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I've been experimenting with PolyORB at work, and the documentation, while fine for configuring and compiling your application, is sorely lacking on any help with implementing your CORBA servants.

Here I'll attempt to provide some brief hints on how to do things that don't seem to be described in the documentation. The PolyORB mailing list is a good place to find more information.

Last Updated on Monday, 10 November 2008 18:52 Read more...