Sorry folks, I don’t have any Gmail invites to hand out at the moment, and I already have several spoken for — assuming I am ever granted any in the first place.
Interesting… taking my Gmail account for a spin, and I thought I’d try signing in using Opera for Linux, just to see if there was any difference between using Mozilla 1.7.2, Firefox 0.9 and Opera 7.5 with Gmail. The answer is… yes, there is a difference.
Moz and Firefox work with Gmail just peachy-keen fine, [...]
Haven’t been posting links to stories I’ve written as of late, so I’m going to try to get back into the habit of doing that. The latest piece published is on UnixReview.com about Ethereal. What a wonderful piece of software! Don’t let the low version number fool you, it definitely rocks.
This morning, I finally broke. After holding out for several months, I finally gave in to the temptation to buy an Athlon64 CPU + motherboard. It just couldn’t be helped… a person can only withstand temptation for so long.
I ended up going with an Athlon64 3000+ and Jetway S755MAX motherboard. The price differential between [...]
If anyone can hook me up with a Gmail account, it’d be much appreciated. Thanks!
[Aug. 24, 2004] Update: Tim Chambers was kind enough to toss me an invite, and I’m now a happy Gmail user. Anyone wanting to send e-mail to my spiffy new Gmail account can send mail to xonker at gmail.
It’s about time for my quarter-annual desktop switch… that is to say, I’ve been using the same distribution on my “main” Linux desktop for about three months now, and I’m feeling that it’s time to switch. Since I write about Linux for a living, I like to use different distributions from time to time to [...]
Have recently been playing around with Gentoo…
So far, I have to say that I’m liking it, though it’s awfully time-consuming when it comes to emerging packages. I assume that once you have a stable system that is not so much an issue. But getting all the tools installed that I want is definitely taking [...]
