I had forgotten about my scanner that I bought a while back for scanning old family photos. Since scanner support in Linux (via the SANE backend) is not all that great, and considering I often wanted to manipulate the photos in Photoshop, I rarely even hooked it up to my main computer. Now that I …
Category: Technology
Apr 26 2011
Thunderbird and external notification sounds
So, I decided that I don’t want to listen to the default system sound whenever I receive a new email. In Thunderbird, there is a field in “General Preferences” for one to specify a particular sound file to be played when new mail arrives. Easy enough. I chose the file I wanted it to play …
Dec 04 2010
phpBB problem with any call to PHP’s mail function
After fighting for a while to figure out why a phpBB installation (migrated to my new server) wouldn’t send out email notifications, and digging through non-existent logs, I have figured out the problem. When a new registration would come through, or when a user would get a new private message, no email notification would be …
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