Technical things that might help someone someday.
If you use Outlook 2007 with IMAP and Exchange, you have probably noticed that every time you restart Outlook you have to re-expand your IMAP folders to see whether you have any new messages in your IMAP inboxes. When you’re used to Exchange and push mail, this can lead to a frustrating problem because I […]
If you installed Outlook 2007 and you hate the menu font, it’s probably because you don’t like Cleartype. I can’t stand it. And it’s bad enough that in order to get rid of that hideous Segoe UI font in Outlook 2007 you have to change it in about 5 places. I can’t even remember them […]
The battery in our trusty Roomba Scheduler went kaput after about 2 years of use (not bad). It wouldn’t hold a charge; the Roomba would run for about 10 minutes and then quit. I looked on Amazon and found some battery replacement options; the usual APS batteries for $50-$80, or an interesting option: a Tenergy […]
I wrote a little one-liner to celebrate the epoch time of 1234567890, reached at approximately 3:30 PST on Friday, February 13, 2009. Here’s the code: perl -e “print \`clear\`; print \”Starting at: \” . \`date\`; while (1) { \$exclaim = ”; if (time() == 1234567890) { \$exclaim = \” FTW\!\!\!\”; } print time() . \$exclaim […]
Let’s say you have a hosted exchange account somewhere and you’re using mail forwarding rather than MX records to push your email to their servers. And you’re getting errors like these in Outlook’s Sync Issues folder: 16:59:02 Synchronizer Version 12.0.4518 16:59:02 Synchronizing Mailbox ‘YOURNAME’ 16:59:02 Done 16:59:07 Microsoft Exchange offline address book 16:59:07 Not downloading […]