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Asa brought my attention to Mozilla Thunderbird’s progress. Mozilla Thunderbird is growing extremely fast. It’s nice to see, since Mozilla Mail is not something I would ever want to use, it’s simply too bloated and is not standalone.

One of the reasons I haven’t used Thunderbird up until now is that the theme was really bad, but from a screenshot posted by asa, it’s looking rather good. They do however need to change the folder-graphics. But it’s growing fast and looking good. The filesize is really high, lets hope that changes when the new Mozilla Roadmap is implemented :)

So I’m installing it now, I doubt I will use it that much since
1) It doesn’t have an win32 installer
2) I’ll be using KMail when I switch to redhat, it looks better :)

Update: Ok, if Thunderbird makes a few changes to the behavior of the program, I could easily end up using it as my default client… But right now… It does some strange stuff, and lacks a few important features

About Thunderbird
1) Get rid of all old icons
2) Much better Options window (needs icons)
3) Redesign menu-look, make sure it doesn’t feel like the bloated Mozilla Mail

I just noticed that Neowin.net has had 863+ exits from my blog.
I concluded this was mainly because of my MSN Messenger 6.0 blog entry.

So I go to Google and search for “MSN messenger 6.0“, and will you look at that, my blog entry is number 15 on the list :)

Robouk asked me to host some of his files, so I wanted to set up an FTP server on my linux machine…

I did an apt-get install proftpd and starting setting up the server.
I wanted to define robouk’s username and password INSIDE proftpd.conf, but nooo that’s not possible… I tried UserPassword, but that didn’t work, even using crypt() bugged me out, it said the password had to be encrypted using crypt(), fine.. but what “salt” should I use, the password or the username?
After trying to get this shit to work for 1 hour, I gave up and created a system-user called “robouk”, and so I got it working.

Why is it so hard for FTP servers to run on something else than system-users?

I’ve talked with some people on DesignersLounge about the plot of Matrix Reloaded, about how it all work.

Because we see Neo stop the machines in the end, therefore it has to be another matrix. Zion is an illusion.
I especially like how Neo didn’t take the same step as the previous 5 versions of him had. The movie IS basically very much about making choices, I loved the scene with the Architect, the Oracle and Merovingian (and his wife, *rrrr*)…
I loved every part of the movie (no, wait… that underground-rave scene sucked!)

I found this blog entry on Dave Hyatt’s blog. It describes very well how I personally also interpreted the movie.

Also, check out the comments, the first one is very interesting indeed..

Wonderful movie, it can really make you think… great stuff.
I’m going to see it again soon, just to try and see if I can get any better ideas on how everything fits together.

For those who didn’t understand everything the architect said (like me), read this

I just started playing Enter The Matrix.

I’ve seen lots of games based on movies. Games like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings etc. The LOTR game sucked, Jedi Knight II was very cool. Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring (game) sucked. LOTR TTT game looks cool, but is also made by another company and only for console games (gah). As you can see there are lots of other LOTR games comming this way, even an online game, which doesn’t really look to be *that* great.

Here comes Enter The Matrix. It has every cool effect you could imagine after seeing both movies, which is why the game is soo cool.
From all the ninja stuff, to SlowMotion, badass moves and lots of guns. I really recommend this game :)

Check out this link on how to secure and install Red Hat Linux

Check out screenshots (by neowin) of MSN messenger 6.0

While I like parts of the design I really don’t enjoy the fact that I need 3 seperate programs running at the same time to support all my IM needs :)

The overall design of MSN IM is getting bloated, version 5 is by far looking better than 6.0 :)

MSN 6.0 beta can be downloaded here

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