LinuxLala’s Temple of Wisdom

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 none [...]

As most of you know I am a freelance writer. So when a couple of weeks ago I sent an email to the editors for an article in newsforge, I got a mail delivery failure notice:

12.152.184.137 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550-”rejected because your SMTP server,
202.43.219.168, is in the SORBS RBL.
550 See http://www.sorbs.net/ for [...]

I don’t understand what the fuss about using Gmail and deleting emails is. I mean, Gmail gives you more than 2 GB of storage and you still wish to delete mail.
So do I.
‘Coz I don’t want the search to show me useless mail which I have no use for and keep only because I have [...]

For some months now yahoo.co.in mail has been behaving rather strangely. Sometimes when I login, where it says, welcome email id, it displays some other email address!
And below, where it says, Welcome Shashank!, too it displays somebody else’s name!
The surprising thing is that this screen lasts for a couple of seconds and then refreshes to [...]

If you thought that Google suggest was impressive, wait till you hear what I have to share tonight.
I am spellbound, say the least, when I see the kind of work that has been put up by them lads.
First you have Google Suggest, which suggests queries as the user types in the search field. That is, [...]

The Dutch town of Almere, which was still underwater 40 years ago, will be hosting the world’s first virtual city supercomputer or computer grid.
Some 2200 citizens have been the target of Project AlmereGrid. And just so you know, AlmereGrid relies primarily on home PCs, connected to high speed fibre optic links.