stupid spammer makes my day

Received this in my mail:

Dear Paypal member, You have added xxxxx@yahoo.com as a new email address for your Paypal account. If you did not authorize this change, check with family members and others who may have access to your account first. If you still feel that an unauthorized person has changed your email, submit the form attached to your email in order to keep your original email and restore your Paypal account. If you are using Internet Explorer please allow ActiveX for scripts to perform all data transfers securely.

Uhhuh. No, I did not add xxxxx to my Paypal account and I'm certainly not going to open a HTML attachment concealed as a PDF with ActiveX scripting turned on. So. Had a good laugh at this spammer and threw the spam away.

kmail

I really really hate this. Being a sourpuss again. Guys, what the hell are we doing to KDE nowadays, especially KDEPIM in it's latest beta incantation? No don't get me the you're-running-a-beta-so-shutup. This is really ludicrous! What happened to my fairly lightweight mail agent application? Why are we needing this nepomuk stuff again? Why do we need to run a full fledged database to just read mail? Do we really need that? Then please, explain to me why my laptop that used to be fairly OK a couple of years ago is rendered pretty useless as of late because we really really needed to put stuff into akonadi? As of now I tend to conclude that the whole plasma/nepomuk/akonadi thing is very very overengineered and plain-just-not-working. And I almost almost almost tend to think I should go back to Gnome (minor shudder) or Windows (major shudder) just to get a reasonable desktop. Come on guys. If we want to put KDE on the map, we need a lightweight performant outlook/thunderbird like PIM. Quit spoonfeeding me a Google Desktop clone I don't want. I know where my stuff is. Get cracking!

drivers

Ehm. I don't know. OTOH, yes I do. Drivers are always a problem. Especially if they are more-or-less closesourced like the nVidia drivers. Anyway. Big trouble on one machine that would not want to start amarok. And on another machine a totally unwilling plasma crashing with a floating point error. In the end, the solution was to use the older nVidia driver. All is well now, after a couple of days that I wasn't happy. No music. Darn...

hidden cost of linux

Has been a long time. But maybe I came up with something that makes my brain dump core again. Let's add a series about trade rag articles. Number one on the list, a front page blurb in Computable #10 of 2010 about research into Linux on the desktop in companies. If you're using a Windows server you're going to need CALs. OK. No big deal, that comes with the territory. Funny and wrong conclusion in the article: Linux has hidden cost because you need to pay for CALs if you're using it in an environment that uses Windows servers. Well. Seems to me that needing CALs for being able to use a Windows server product is actually an extra selling point for also using Linux on the server side as a way to reduce cost. Other than that, arguing that Linux incurs hidden cost when used together with Windows server products is ludicrous.

bilbo

It may well be the name of a book character, but I finally discovered a suitable blog editor. Not perfect yet but hey I'm not complaining. Since a number of settings are in a SqLite database it wasn't that hard to horse around with some settings and make it maintain my three blogspot blogs. As far as I can see now I like it. It integrates well, it's easy to work with and it lets me write blogs incrementally... If you're using KDE4, I recommend it...

Update: bilbo changed its name -for obvious reasons - into blogilo. In the mean time it has been improved significantly!

peace of mind

KDE.... Peace of mind...

64K should be enough

They really never learn do they. Windows 7 Starter Edition allows you to run a maximum of three applications simultaneously.