Monthly Archives: June 2009

Zimbra Desktop not quite ready

6/29/2009 – 4:04 pm

I have been using Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop as my primary collaboration client for nearly four weeks now. During that period, I reported a number of bugs and voted for many other bugs and feature requests. Unfortunately, Zimbra Desktop is as yet unsuitable for productive use.
Zimbra Desktop itself is actually the Zimbra Web client, [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Product Reviews | Comments (2)

Not a bankster? Here’s your bailout

6/29/2009 – 9:25 am

Paper Avalanche Buries Plan to Stem Foreclosures:

Hanging in the balance is more than the fate of individual homeowners. The administration portrays its mortgage program as a crucial piece of its broader effort to restore vigor to the economy. If the effort fails, foreclosures will continue to surge and home prices will probably keep falling, sowing [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Money | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Goldman Sachs bubble mania

6/27/2009 – 11:52 am

Another must read piece by Matt Taibbi, scanned from Rolling Stone. Gangster Capitalism is an apt name.

From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again
By MATT TAIBBI

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Deliciousness

6/17/2009 – 8:32 pm

Finally created a Delicious account. My open tabs now exceed practicality. I can’t work through enough projects simultaneously to hold my active tabs under 50. It’s crazy. Posting to Delicious, I am hopeful, will allow me to immediately dump resources I am not actively using in favor of fewer open tabs.
Ultimately, [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Links | Comments (0)

Eudora 8 beta is just Thunderbird

6/17/2009 – 1:42 pm

No, seriously. I installed it, tried to run it, and my running copy of Thunderbird came to the fore. Closing Thunderbird and running Eudora brings up a seemingly broken copy of

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments (0)

Another day, another drug

6/14/2009 – 4:00 pm

Disease of Rich Extends Its Pain to Middle Class:

Right now, it is estimated that 15 million to 20 million Americans have elevated uric acid levels, known as hyperuricemia. But they do not have gout symptoms and are therefore not treated.
If further studies prove that high uric acid levels contribute to other diseases, though, then [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments (0)

Useless user directories on kubuntu

6/14/2009 – 1:43 pm

For years, the introduction of certain compulsory directories on a kubuntu install has annoyed me to no end. You can’t simply remove them, as they’re recreated. I’ve never had enough time or inclination to discover how to remove them, because they’re easy to ignore and harmless.
The directories are introduced by a package called [...]

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Proxying Zimbra Web and Desktop via Apache 2.2

6/3/2009 – 9:36 pm

It’s possible to proxy Zimbra for both the traditional Web client and the newer Zimbra Desktop client. There are some mostly working configurations outlined on the Zimbra wiki, with some mistakes. (I had the same experience with the DAViCal wiki, but Zimbra is a far larger effort.)
Before you attempt to reverse proxy anything, [...]

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