Ruminations Galore

I am very fond of the threaded messages approach of gmail. It makes gmail ideal for subscribing to mailing lists. The chances of me ever missing a reply to any message is nil. But the threaded approach can also be a hindrance. I had posted earlier how one could delete mails from the inbox, but [...]

I have a friend who is very interested in web designing. He is of the opinion that one should use as many colors as possible in a single web page to keep the viewer interested. He does not want to understand that the viewer might come to the site for the content. All he says [...]

WITHOUT burning the iso files to CDs. Sounds interesting. I was just looking into some of the folders that I had created and had since forgotten, when I found this tip. If *memory serves*, I had planned on blogging about this at ls-l. Again, if *memory serves*, I had posted this on my previous blog. [...]

The first ImageMagick article that I wrote has been translated into Dutch by Frederik Vos, who runs the Linux For Life site. L4L is a Dutch/Belgium LUG and their aim is to help newbies adapt to linux. For this purpose they run a mailing list and also host numerous newbie centric articles on topics like [...]

All anti-spam softwares of today boast of Heuristic spam filtering to help keeping your inboxes clean. Heuristic means – a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem. But to understand how a heuristic filter works, we would have to learn about the other spam filters. Content filtering, [...]

Yeah, be surprised, ‘coz there is lots more common between Spamming and cracking than public hatred. We might begin with the Hat code, which is referenced from old westerns where the bad guy wears a black hat. A spammers hat Black Hat: One who favours Spam. Could be a site/ISP. White Hat: Someone who emplys [...]

Just discovered today, quite by accident, that one can move any open window from one workspace to another by simple drag-n-drop. Yeah! It works! SuUppose, you have a text file open in gedit in the first workspace and xmms in the second. And you wish to move gedit to the third, simply drag the window [...]