Sunday, November 2, 2003

K9 V1.14 Released -- 9:08 pm CST, Update by The Master

For those still running on Windows: Robin Keir of Keir.net has updated his anti-spam proxy K9 to version 1.14. Here's the skinny:

• Reduced memory usage when using the "Close" window button to minimize to a system tray icon.
• Fixed toolbar button not being re-enabled if keyboard shortcut was used.
• Added option to enable or disable the tray icon flashing when email is being processed.
• K9 no longer writes the database files out to disk on exit. This was redundant since it was done after each email session.
• If Explorer crashes and the taskbar disappears K9 should now restore the tray icon when the taskbar is recreated.
• Fixed situation where K9 would report a huge number of email accounts that could be configured on first startup.

Saturday, November 1, 2003

Converting Pictures for PDAs -- 8:26 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Sadly, unless you use a memory card, you have to use proprietary Windows software to convert pictures so you can view them on your PalmOS PDA. Thanks to a program called Par, I can convert jpgs into file stream databases that can be uploaded into the PDA's main memory and viewed via SplashPhoto or some other Palm image viewer. Par is powerful, but obtuse. To save you a few brain cells, here's the command I used to convert a file called "LOGOS2.jpg". I managed to view it via SplashPhoto just fine:

par c -a "stream" LOGOS2.jpg.pdb LOGOS2.jpg Foto Foto LOGOS2.jpg

The "c" argument creates the database, -a "stream" makes it a file stream, LOGOS2.jpg.pdb is the filename it creates, LOGOS2.jpg is the name as it will appear on the PDA (SplashPhoto needs the .jpg extension), Foto is the file type, the second Foto is the creator id, and finally LOGOS2.jpg is the file to turn into a database.

It may not be the prettiest thing in the world, but anything that allows me to avoid using Windows makes me one happy guy.

UPDATE! I also created a quick and dirty bash script so I don't have to remember all of this. I called it jpg2pdb.sh. All it does is take whatever filename you pass to it and convert it. It does no sanity checking at all, so don't try anything crazy with it other than converting jpgs. Here it is:

#!/bin/sh
par c -a "stream" "$1".pdb "$1" Foto Foto "$1"

NFL Week #9 -- 7:53 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, my beloved Wolverines won one of their two big annual rivalry games, this one against Michigan State. Now they have to beat Ohio State at the end of the year. As far as this week's NFL schedule goes, here are my picks: Colts, Giants, Bucs, Ravens, Panthers, Chargers, Raiders, Seahawks, Bengals, Rams, Eagles, Cowboys, Vikings, Patriots. Oh, and if the Lions do lose as I predict, I'm going to begin my "Fire Millen" campaign.

The Master comments: Eeyore's picks: Panthers, Dolphins, Ravens, Bucs, Giants, Lions, Chargers, Bengals, Seahawks, Eagles, Rams, Cowboys, Vikings, Broncos.

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