Category: Interesting

This should either really bug or please Eudora users (Simone, you out there?). If I used Eudora, I know it’d please me as it’d only improve the proejec.t

Qualcomm Inc. and Mozilla Corp. on Wednesday jointly announced that future versions of Eudora, Qualcomm’s long-running e-mail client, would be based on Mozilla’s open-source Thunderbird code. The move effectively puts an end to the proprietary Eudora, which launched in 1988 and once had a significant share of the e-mail software market.

Developers from both companies will work on Mozilla’s e-mail project, which will feed to Eudora and Thunderbird. The first open-source Eudora will release during the first half of 2007, said the pair.

I’ve mentioned before how Google has a uncanny way of indexing things that you might not want indexed, and it only gets more interesting. Google Labs has introduced a new code search feature that is already finding lots of interesting stuff.

Long story short, put passwords on any compressed archives you post on a public space, unless you want Google to index their contents.

On less-than-invasive news, Google now has an XML-RPC interface so you can ping it with your Weblog.

I was taking some pictures at a house today, and happened to glance on the bookshelf to notice some old magazines. Like 10 year old magazines. One of them was a 10-year old copy of PC Magazine (with a cover story about online services like Prodigy and Compuserve — those were the days), and happened to turn over the magazine to look at this back cover ad (sorry about the crappy quality — my flatbed scanner as work was on the fritz, so I had to take a picture of it).

Back in the day that $4000+ laptop was top of the line. With its 90mhz Pentium, 10.4″ screen, and 810 megabyte hard drive, you were cruising in style. For nearly $5000, you could get a Pentium 120.

But if you were a businessman, you might be more interested in this offering:

So for $15,000, you could get two servers with Pentium 133mhz processors, 32 megs of ram, 4GB hard drives, plus they’ll throw in a 12-port 10-Base-T switch. Damn, that’s sweet!

It’s amazing how much hardware you can by for that price nowadays. Sadly, though, this is about the time I graduated high school, and I paid nearly $3,000 for a Pentium 133 system when I graduated — it was a speed demon compared to the family’s 486SX25.