Monthly Archives: February 2004

The public domain needs your help

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/8/2004
Quick link to the EFF Action Center to send a fax or e-mail supporting the Public Domain Enhancement Act. If passed, PDEA would require a small registration fee - as low as $1 - in order to retain copyright in a work. This would allow unexploited works to enter the public domain while removing ambiguity [...]
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Two Critical Bugs in KMail 1.6 Detected

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/7/2004
Head's up for anyone who's using K-Mail from the KDE 3.2 release: Two Critical Bugs in KMail 1.6 Detected. You definitely want to check this out and get the latest release if you're using KMail...
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Alternatives to Pine

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/7/2004
Someone on my LUG mailing list was looking for a replacement to Pine, since Pine isn't included in the Fedora Core distribution. (Dropped due to Pine's unfortunate license.) For folks who really love Pine, but want to switch to a free software alternative, Mutt with a Pine-flavored configuration in conjunction with the Nano editor will usually [...]
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The long compile...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/5/2004
Waiting for KDE 3.2 to compile... yeesh. Konstruct is easy as hell to use, but it takes a very long time to compile the full KDE 3.2 distribution plus applications. Still... should be fun when it's finished.
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Sticking with Sylpheed

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/1/2004
In my eternal quest for the perfect e-mail client I've finally found one that I really like. I've been using Sylpheed-Claws for more than two months now and I'm really coming to like it. Sylpheed-Claws is a "bleeding-edge" version of Sylpheed, with a slew of features that aren't (yet) in Sylpheed. It's fast, it's highly-configurable [...]
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