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Using Thunderbird and Zimbra together with tags

dp — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:05:50 +0000

If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you might notice in Zimbra‘s webmail that the tags are called $label1, $label2, etc. The way to make these “right” is to edit the prefs.js file. Rename the $label1, $label2 values to “important”, “work”, etc. Make sure they start with a lowercase letter, else they won’t be recognized. Just some food for thought.

Light IM Client

dp — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:01:15 +0000

If you’re on Linux, and looking for an IM client that’s lighter than Pidgin, check out Empathy. It only uses about 23M of memory, plus about 15-20M for the background transport services. It has tabbed chat windows, notifications (via Gnome Notification), etc. It’s also one of the only clients that supports Voice Chat through Google Talk.

Overall, I give it a 4 out of 5.

Using Thunderbird and Zimbra together with tags If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you...

Claws Mail Auto Preview of Messages

dp — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:58:21 +0000

To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected to Always. Done!

Postfix + fail2ban = win Recently, I had to lease a new server. My old...
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XFN/FOAF

dp — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:15 +0000

I’ve been working on getting all of the sites on which I have public profiles compiled together into a list. Currently, the fruits of that effort can be seen in the sidebar of this site. All of those urls should have a rel="me" attribute on them, so that the social graph is correct, and all of the things that I’ve done can be properly attributed to me.

In the process of this, I’ve been working on a script of my own, to generate this graph. I’m using Perl and GraphViz to generate it. Right now, it’s about 2MB of PNG, which still needs some work.

I’d really like to fix it up a little, fixing the edges to be properly bidirectional, using a bit less space as fluff, and potentially adding in my contacts/acquaintences/etc.

Databases and backups Yesterday, I managed to delete the primary database that we...

Password security and Digg.com

dp — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:10:28 +0000

I’ve been on a mission lately to change all of my passwords on all of the sites that I use. To make it easier on me, I’m using KeePassX to generate them, and to store them.

When creating these passwords, I’ve been using Upper+Lower+Numbers+Special Characters+Minus+Underline, and a length of 26 characters. I figure this is plenty enough overkill to keep my passwords unique amongst each site. But when I tried to change the password on Digg, it told me that my password could only be between 4 and 15 characters. Ok, I’ll agree that 26 is definitely overkill, so I shortened it to 15. I regenerated a password, and put it in place. Digg then told me that I could only use Upper+Lower+Numbers for my password.

Excuse me? We took the password strength from 170 bits to 89 bits. That’s nearly half the strength. Especially now that Digg has integrated with Facebook, this seems like a very dangerous security issue to me. Maybe I’m just over-reacting, who knows.

How to fix strange characters in MySQL database – Vinh Pham I admit, I borrowed this from How to fix strange characters...