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Archive for February, 2007
New car
Feb 19th
My old Ford Focus, that has carried my fat ass up and down to Dublin for the last 3 years is being put out to pasture. It’ll be spending the rest of it’s days doing school runs and trips to the shops with the missus. I need something with a bit of comfort, so I’ve found a Volvo S80 for myself. It’s bigger (a lot bigger!) and more comfortable, and it doesn’t start to wheeze going up steep hills.
It looks like a bit of an old man’s car, but it’s 2 litre turbo’ed engine will leave a lot of the boy racers More >
Installing World of Warcraft
Feb 9th
I was in my local video rental shop and they had a stack of WoW 14 day trial packs on the counter for ???????2 each. Seeing as I know at least one guy who doesn’t go outside the door at the weekend any more because he spends every waking moment online, I decided to give it a spin.
I know my PC isn’t the latest and greatest (a self built AMD Athlon 3700+), but it took 20 minutes to install this from DVD, and then it went down hill from there. I ran the game, created my account and logged in. I then got More >
Reason #2 to like Debian
Feb 1st
Courier-IMAP is nice, but a bit over-engineered for what I want. Dovecot is nice and simple, and doesn’t insist in having all the other email folders under the inbox, which is nice. The main reason I’m switching over is security. It supports TLS by default. The thing I like about Debian is the ease of finding howtos on the net. I googled for “dovecot +install +etch +howto” and this page was the first hit. A complete idiots guide that even I got it right first time and had everything up and running in 15 minutes.
