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I’m not usually the one to write just to comment stuff that I’ve seen or read, but one of the latest f8d strips really hits the spot.

As quite many people do, I use to IRC using screen + irssi on my server, which I connect to using PuTTY. A little while ago I went out to find a way to make PuTTY’s taskbar flash when I was hilighted. It wasn’t trivial to find the information on how to do it (it took me some time), so I though I could share it:

In irssi:
/set bell_beeps on
/set beep_msg_level MSGS NOTICES DCC DCCMSGS HILIGHT

And in putty:
Go to Terminal -> Bell in the settings, and set “Taskbar/caption indication on bell” to Flashing or Steady (whichever you prefer).

That should be it, and don’t forget to save the session settings in PuTTY so you don’t have to change them every time you connect .

The university where I study has decided to switch from it’s own mail system to e-GO, more oftenly referenced to as Google Apps. Although the full (forced) migration won’t take place until october, you can choose to migrate now. However the migration isn’t fully automated, your old emails won’t be imported to the new system automatically. Therefore I decided to describe how I did to migrate.

First log in to the student portal. Then use the menu to go to Settings >> e-GO. Set a password and then click the activation button.
Before you start with the next part make sure that your account is activated.

Now that your account is activated the next (and final) task is to import all your old emails. For this you’ll need two things: an email client that supports imap/pop3, and can export messages to mbox format, and Google GMail Loader (GML). I used evolution for the mail client. As for GML, if you’re on linux you can probably find it in your package mangager, and if you’re on windows just download the binary from the site.
Now you have to export all the mails. In evolution this is done by selecting all the mails in a folder, right-clicking on them and selecting “Save as…”. When you’ve saved all your folders fire up GML.
Now you need setup GML before you import your messages. Start with setting the SMTP server to one listed here. Then set the your email address to [you]@migrate.student.liu.se. DO NOT set “Message Type” to “Mail I sent”, because if you do those mails will be shown as sent by [you]@migrate.student.liu.se and not [you]@student.liu.se, and will therefore not show up in Sent Mail.
Lastly set the email file to one of those that you exported earlier and press “Send To GMail”. Wait, and then repeat for each of the files that you exported.
When done you can log in to e-GO and verify that you’ve got all the mails, and don’t worry if there’s a few less then you uploaded, this is because of GMail’s “converstation” feature.

There are some downsides with this method:
1. The timestamps of the mails will be set to the time when you uploaded them.
2. Sent mails will show upp in both Sent mail and Inbox.

At least to me those are minor issues, that you can live with.

Here’s a riddle i found somewhere:

There’s a club. Anyone can join the club.
If they can answer the doormans question.
A man who wants to join stands near the door and listens to the doorman.
A member walks up to the doorman and the doorman says,
“Twelve.”
The member replies, “Six.”
The doorman lets him in.
Another member walks up to the doorman. The doorman says,
“Six.”
The member replies, “Three.”
Feeling confident, the man wanting to join walks up to the doorman.
The doorman says, “Ten.”
The non-member replies, “Five.”
The doorman tells him to leave.
Why?

I haven’t figured out the answer myself yet - but I hope I eventually do. Meanwhile, you may comment if you have a hint of some sort or think you’ve got the answer .

THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

Lately in sweden there’s been quite much talk about Scandic’s decision, for example: one[1], two[2].
I must say I can’t fully agree with either one’s view of the issue. Skytte is mostly wrong; first I can’t see why he does not accept that people acctually can feel insulted because there’s a bible in their hotel room. On the other hand I myself can’t understand why one would be insulted because of it - after all it’s merely a book, a fictional one. Secondly I do not see why he should have a right to decide what Scandic should do - they’re a company, and as such can do as they wish, they have all rights to decide what should be in their hotel rooms. Also, they have probably also counted with the probable reduction in guests due to the change, as they’re profit driven. As for buissnessmen which he names as an example, I’d guess aren’t chosing where to live themselves when travelling, but by their companies. Lastly, I’ve personally not seen the daily insults directed against christianity which he mentions.
Even though I am an humanist, and a atheist (though I must admit I’m more of an agnostic), I can not say I agree with what Sturmark writes, most of it is total rubbish… But in the last paragraph he makes a very good point: he proposes to provide a small library in the reception of the hotels’ which has a collection of a variety of books, both religious and non-religious ones. This, I think, should be a solution that works for both christians, atheists and others.

So, today has been the most productive day since quite a long time for me. First I suceeded in upgrading wordpress to the newest version - before I was running 2.0.2, now it’s 2.1.2. And contrary to what one could believe it worked without any problems at all .

And when I was at it I also installed a quotes plugin (mildly inspired by ozamosi, admittedly), so now I’ve use for some of the quotes I’ve collected.

I’ve also started writing a minimalistic image viewer for windows, originally inspired by feh, and should do only one thing - view images, so no useless features. (But if someone knows about an image viewer for windows that does what feh does but loads images from the entire directory it’s launched in instead of only the files specified I’d be glad to hear about it - there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel ).

Yesterday I watched a pretty interesting movie, The god who wasn’t there, and I really do recommend it. It takes up many interesting facts, most of them about Jesus, gives quite a few reasons as to why christianity is wrong.
Now I’m neither for nor against a god, but I’m certainly against one like the christian one.
But anyway, as I said I really recommend it. Yet remember when you watch it to think for yourself, as always.

And no, not on this blog, but on the ‘net in general.
Apparently I’ve been tagged in something named “Blog tagging”, which is just another form of these emails you recieve now and then that has a number of questions that you should answer and send on to all your friends. In this case I’m supposed write five things that most people don’t know about me, and then tag five other people. But since I’m “boring” I’ll just write one thing:
1. I never liked those messages, and rarely answer them (if I most oftenly just reply to the sender), because even though the thought behind them is quite a good one, the way it’s done isn’t a very good one (and no, I haven’t got a better idea of how to do it :P).

And for the same reason (and maybe because I’m a bit lazy too) I’ll just tag three other people:
hetzz, LadyFrost, and ozamosi.

(And now I also broke Tim’s estimate on how long it would take for everyone to get tagged, not much, but still ;))