Right now I’m in a state of wondering as to quite where my interests lie. While I still read about and am interested in web standards, the push towards them and the inventive things that they allow you to do, writing about them is no longer the fire that it once was. I still find Linux and open-source in general interesting, but I’ve been so busy recently I haven’t really had the time to mess with my system and in the process learn some interesting snippet that’s lead me on to other interesting prospects.
Shifting dx13 over to a new server: if you can see this, you’re in =)
We like -_^
Getting more hardcore: I now have a Gentoo desktop system and a Debian Stable mail server =)
The email server runs a combination of fetchmail, exim, procmail and uw-imapd, which does the following:
I set this up because switching between Windows and Linux and having to keep email in sync was becoming rather a chore. I had to use the same email client in both Windows and Linux. Though I used the very capable Mozilla Thunderbird — sharing mail files on a common vfat disk — the solution always seemed restrictive. Now I can try out whatever email client I like, and not have to worry about setting up filters and such for each one.
A while ago I talked about my search for a Windows music player, as Winamp was too basic and iTunes was to slow and annoying. I found Musik. I’ve been using it for a month or so now. In general I’ve been very pleased with it.
It works in a similar way to iTunes, with the familiar browse windows, search box and so on. The difference is that it is fast. Compared to iTunes, it’s blazing. My flatmate has my old PC, an AMD 450MHz job. ITunes ran horrendously slowly, but it was suffered because it is a good music player. I installed Musik on his computer the other day, and the difference is very noticable. The UI is much more responsive, searches don’t freeze the program up for thirty seconds and it is generally more smooth. Even on my PC, iTunes UI was rather juddery, so Musik is better for me too.