I’ve linked to articles giving a similar but different method of getting Firefox to use an external email application. However, Scott Granneman has a short, quick tip to send email from Firefox with KMail at The Open Source Weblog.
Major annoyance: clicking on mailto links in Firefox doesn’t open the email app I want to [...]

I am a sucker for text-mode programs. I do a lot of work on my Ubuntu machine remotely, via ssh, so I spend a lot of time using a shell. And once you do that for awhile, you tend to get used to it and want to do everything from the shell. Even when I’m [...]

Just in case you didn’t notice, we disappeared for a week or so here. And it’s all due to bad luck with sbackup. I set up sbackup after spending 9 months thinking that I needed to take the time to get a regular backup going on my system. During configuration of sbackup, I noticed that [...]

Now that I have a PDA that can do WiFi, I’ve started paying attention to ‘net software for PalmOS. Palm packages a surprisingly good web browser, Blazer, but it has one crucial flaw: it’s too good at rendering a web page! If a page is set up to display at 800×600, Blazer faithfully tries to [...]

Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. I coulda sworn that I posted a recommendation for Pandora’s music service a long time ago. But I can’t find an entry for it, so I’d better write something now. Pandora is a combination of a flash-based streaming music player and a collaborative rating system:
Those questions often evolved into [...]

More proof that Bill Gates is completely out of touch with the rest of the world: he actually dared to mock the “One Laptop Per Child” project!
“The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk … and with a tiny little screen,” Gates said [...]

LinuxQuestions.org has released it’s list of Members Choice Award Winners. The list is not surprising, and includes:
A list of winners follows, with the percentage of the votes in parenthesis. Distribution of the Year – Ubuntu (19.49%) Database of the Year – MySQL (62.98%) Office Suite of the Year – OpenOffice.org (84.84%) Browser of the [...]