Just upgraded to b2evo 3.3, lets see if this is any better than the b2evo 2.2 install I had on here. The db migration and content move went through fairly painlessly. Just need to tweak the skin back to my own liking a bit. First thing though - not sur… more »

With every release, Thunderbird has become better and better as a personal email client. But over the last few releases, it definitely feels like as its getting better at personal email handling its getting worse for mailing list traffic. I am on a fe… more »

So, the 20th Sept 2009 build for Thunderbird enabled Faceted search, by default. Quite nice. However, when you have nearly 17 GB of email- it can take a long long time to actually build the sqlite index's it needs to carry out this sort of search. La… more »

Over the last few months, I've started using my proper laptop a lot more, and at work as the exclusive desktop interface and moved the 'Desktop' into a VM host. The only issue being that while the Desktop had 8G of ram, the laptop has 'only' 1G. And my e… more »

I totally subscribe to the idea of email being a fantastic communication tool, way better than anything the web has put out as yet, and because its async and works with priority tagging its automatically better than any form of synchronous communication.… more »

I've just had my first ever gpg signed spam email. Yes it is gpg signed, and its signed correctly with a key that seems to not be mentioned anywhere ( or atleast papa google does not know about it ). These guys are still getting better and wiser. Whats n… more »

One new feature I really like in the upcoming Thunderbird 3 tree : thread summaries in the message view pane. Here is an example: Click the image above for a full size view. What makes it even more cool, is that since Thunderbird can already reco… more »

I've been forced-offline the last two days, my ISP - bethere.co.uk seems to have had a problem in the SE london area, and that means no IP down the line for users. Getting through to their customer services seems to be a challenge too - calling their… more »

I just noticed that all feeds from my blog were self promoting and b2evo ( the software I use for this blog ) was plastering its own branding in there. Which is, imho, cheap. So, apologies about that, a sed run just fixed it ( I think ). - KB more »

Looks like something is muchly broken at freshmeat.net at the moment. I can get to the site no problems, just that the site has no content on there. And thats odd. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like on my side at the moment. does not seem to hav… more »

After thinking about this for a fairly long time, the time has come to switch service providers. I have been with PlusNet now for 2 years and not really had any major problems[1]. However, given that Be/O2 now has a 2Meg uplink product, and that too with… more »

If you are looking to host some online content for Symbian Phones or others, there is a requirement to work out the right MIME types that the phone / device is going to expect from your webserver. After spending 45 minutes trying to work out what they ar… more »

Hey, I too am now on LinkedIN, you can see my personal page at this link Havent quite figured out exactly what it is and what I could do with it - but hey, its what all the snazzy kids are doing these days.... more »

Would someone *please* write an Ignore Thread option for Thunderbird ? P L E A S E ? ? -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [ Music : Snoop Dogg - Drop it like its hot ] more »

Comments are back on this blog. I finally spent the 20 minutes it took to write the moderation code. It works by sending out an email to me, everytime a comment is posted on the blog, a crm114 instance then looks at the comment and if its not SPAM, is pa… more »

on the 13th Jun, I noticed that the adsl link speed seemed really really slow - and while my ADSL modem was syncing at 7200kbps, I was getting only 1400 - 1450kbps on downloads. A quick check against the plus.net website ( which, one hopes, would be the… more »

So the spammers know when I am likely to be reading email. Now how in the world did they work that out ? or is this just a fluke of somesorts... Here is what's going on - During my waking hours, 8am to 2am, I get between 4500 - 5200 spam + virus hosti… more »

{ Via Richard in HK } Google Talk is now open to access from other jabber based servers around the world! How cool is that ? Here is a link -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } more »

http://cbl.abuseat.org/ -- heard of them before ? I cant work out why they have listed one of my home IP's on their suppression list. The reasons they mention for a listing are : 1. viruses, spyware, adware, open proxies and trojans 2. dynamic… more »

Try this search on Google, it seems to bring up the results, and then there is a section that goes 'Dissatisfied? See results for:' and they add some results from your original search criteria + some keywords which look like their 'where you looking for… more »

Take a look : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [Music : Oasis - Keep the Dream Alive ] more »

Looks like something broke with the latest Mozilla Release. ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050722 CentOS/1.7.10-1.4.1.centos ), Something that seems to come down from upstream. In some of the cases, you need to select the… more »

Ever wonder how much of traffic is on the Usenet networks ? I knew it was going to be a lot - but not this much... Check it out for yourself here ( via Ralph ) -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [ Music : Snow Patrol - Somewhere a c… more »

I've just got a Dedicated Server @ LayeredTech, good Bandwidth and a decent setup time ( pre sales response over their email contact is rather slow... ). Lots of people have good things to say about them. But the main reason I went with them is that they… more »

Lets start with a simple question. How much spam do you get ? Now split up the real email you get into 3 sections. 1. Real Mail - sent by people, to you, specifically by intent 2. List Mail - sent by people, to a list, of which you are a member 3.… more »