As I’ve explained earlier I have my incoming and sent mail in a single IMAP folder. To make this folder more readable I use a Thunderbird mail filter to add a “Sent” tag to the outgoing mail. This ...

I’ve decided to make a small Wake-On-Lan program that I can register as a scheduled task in order to wake up my NAS. This task must be executed every minute or else the NAS will shutdown again, so ...

For some reason none of my domains DNS names resolve to IP addresses anymore. I wonder if it has something to do with China’s new policy, see China Imposes New Internet Controls. It basically boil...

I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop (next to Windows 7) and actually, it’s a pretty usable platform. I don’t think there are many things that I do under Windows 7 that I cannot do under Ubuntu....

I’ve been using IMAP for my email for years now. I like it, because it allows me to access my mail from any device, anywhere on the globe. But what’s been bothering for all those years is that, whe...

Bought this nice 1TB Buffalo NAS and Windows 7 keeps nagging me to set up a backup schedule so I thought: cool, backup to the NAS! No: You can only save your backups on a network location on Windo...

But only because the server got a new IP. Let’s see how long it takes for the new IP to get blocked.

One of the things I like about Windows 7 are the Libraries. These are pseudo-folders that actually create a view of a collection of folders to make them appear as one. By default there are 4 librar...

I’m the only Windows 7 in my workgroup, so that HomeGroup entry in explorer’s tree view pane is pushing the far more useful Computer and Network entries down. But, simply disabling the two HomeGrou...