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  1. IMAP as the API on A Programmatically Accessible Email Archive? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How much mail does your company move per day? Thousand of messages? A gig in attachments per day?

    You could very easily implement this as a simple forwarding daemon, or as an plugin to your existing MTA, just store all mail going anywhere in a separate, append-only mailbox, then use IMAP to access it remotely.

    IMAP is an industry-proven protocol, there exist many open-source implementations, and has been specifically developed for situations where the mail will remain on the server. It provides you with searching and tagging, plus you can organize the mail store as you see fit (f.e. each years mails in a separate folder, while still able to search all of them at once) (sort known spam in a separate folder while keeping it around). Granted, I'm not aware of any IMAP server that uses an SQL back-end, so this may become a bottleneck for you.

  2. Re:I work for a manufacturer on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 2, Funny

    How well do you think it would go over if the Government started mandating that everybody has to turn over fingerprints at birth?

    Make electronics your hobby and buy a solder gun. And be really careless...
  3. Re:This is great news for the open source communit on Sun Application Server 9.0 PE Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Three words: Read The Licence

  4. Re:Vista? on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    No need, Emacs is aready a operating system.

    Further, many would argue that it's a better one...

  5. Postponement, not a victory. on EU Says No To Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The fact that so many votes were cast against the directive was only due to the last-minute turnaround of the lobyists. They were seriously afraid of the proposed amendments[0], to the point that they killed the directive instead of taking the chance that it would be modified.

    [0] Amendment no.21, as co-sponsored by IBM, states that a patent's description must be sufficiently complete so that it can be used...

  6. Re:Good luck to all you Europeans... on EU Closer To Rejecting Software Patents · · Score: 1
    Really, the people living in Europe are just as bigoted, racist and uneducated as Americans.

    Yes, Yes, and No. Where I live, if you only have a High School diploma you are considered effectively illiterate, and the only prospect you have is moving bricks and applying plaster.
  7. Re:Put Linux On It on PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone · · Score: 1

    Funny, whenever I have some hardware problem, I find it easied to diagnose it on Linux. But then again, I have the arcane knowledge of the lsusb and lspci commands.

    On the other hand, The most difficult decision when installing Ubuntu on my laptop was how to name it, and everything (but the built-in camera) worked perfectly on the first try.

  8. Re:say what you want... on Microsoft's Most Successful Failure · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, Ubunto on my laptop got everything right on the first try, and the hardest decision I had to make was how to name it.

    On my desktop computer I simply use the prepackaged nvidia drivers without a hitch.

  9. Re:Never Done this but ... on A DVD Jukebox Without the DVDs? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the compression will be so small as to not be noticeable. Try it for yourself.

  10. Re:Compared To? on Nokia's Linux Handheld · · Score: 1

    Since it has bluetooth, just use something like the frogpad.

  11. Re:DNS? on Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming · · Score: 1

    /etc/hosts predated DNS, and was ath that time the authoritative source for nameaddress mappings, and usually takes precedence on hostname lookups.

    The grandparent (as I understood it) wants a mechanism by which to redefine (locally) the nameIP mapping for a specific site, which is possible using /etc/hosts. The browser will still send a Host: header with his expected hostname, no change there.

  12. Re:DNS? on Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming · · Score: 1

    Ermmm... that's what /etc/hosts is alla about...

  13. Re:Huh? on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 1

    I usually think way faster than I can speak, but then again I can read way faster than I can speak. Maybe that's because my thought process does not use speech or spoken words.

    It's really annoying to have buffer overruns on speech...

  14. Re:Huh? on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 1

    For one, the different input and processing pathways to the brain have a perceptible lag, which is variable from pathway to pathway. However we do not notice this because we time-shift the inputs after the fact.

    It helps a lot if you use transactional terms when discussing the perceptions of time in the brain. The whole process is not quite Serializable, but enough to suffice for day-to-day tasks.

  15. Re:More problems on World of Warcraft Outage Charted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm from Greece too - do you use European or US servers ?

  16. Re:OMG DOORS!! on Inside Look at Pixar HQ · · Score: 1

    Sure, but then you have to get up, get the mallet, find the luser, and apply the LART. Lots of work. With a signal jammer, you just press the button. Plus, it silences all cell phone connections at the same time! One would need a pretty big mallet for that .....

  17. Re:OMG DOORS!! on Inside Look at Pixar HQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've put a cell phone _in_ a cow-orkers computer, after warning her to keep it at all times on herself.

    Lots of fun... she could hear the ringning coming from somewhere on her desk, but could not fond it...

  18. Re:OMG DOORS!! on Inside Look at Pixar HQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    You might want to consider investing in a cell signal jammer. Works wonders.

  19. Re:Egyptian? on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    If you are talking about a line of humans (as in waiting in a line), note that almost all mediterranean countries are like that.

  20. Re:Eclipse on Programming Tools You've Used? · · Score: 1

    No, use maven. Much more powerful, with a smaller learning curve.

  21. Re:Catchy Title... on Cory Doctorow's 'I, Robot' Posted · · Score: 1

    Bad, bad Anonymous Coward! Go read Orwells 1984!

  22. Re:But they are criminals on It's Not TV, It's MythTV · · Score: 1

    Heh, they already do that [percentage of the media price goes to media producers] for both tape and CD/DVD.

    And drugs usually have (after R&D) quadruple-digit (and more) profit margins.

  23. Re:Some people don't want to bother on Who Doesn't Use Source Control? · · Score: 1

    Bash and 'cvs import'. Assuming that you have kept a sane naming convention on all of the 175 zip files, it should be less than 30 minutes to write a shell script that unpacks them and imports them to the CVS repository, creating a new module or adding a new revison as necessary.

  24. Re:Small Cluefree Groups on Who Doesn't Use Source Control? · · Score: 1

    If you want a content-only CMS, you may wan to take a look at magnola (http://magnolia.info). It doesn't have the frills of all the portal frameworks out there, but it is very simple to use.

  25. Re:Some people don't want to bother on Who Doesn't Use Source Control? · · Score: 1

    1. The initial learning curve is about as flat as it gets. You need what, an hour of training for initial usage?

    2. If I had a "developer" like that in my projects, I would talk for a minute or two with management about relocation possibilities...

    3. For all intents and purposes, the backup policy works just fine. If you have checkout/checkin scripts, you have already passed the point of no return in VC usage.