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All quiet on the ßlogging front as I tangle with various bits of software:

• I am really pleased with Mail.App in the Mac OS X 1.3 (Panther) - the junk mail filtering seems to be just right, currently giving a maximum of 1 false positive and 2 or 3 false negatives each day (still getting 50 or so spams per hour on my private domains)
• The new X11 on Panther has a great side-effect. I found that Xquartz allows me to run a remote X desktop for any of the Linux machines in the house (just type "Xquartz -query hostname &" in Terminal using the desired hostname); now under Panther it is able to run full-screen and I can switch back and forth using Option-Command-A.
• I have MySQL up and running on the main server and have been happily connecting to it with OpenOffice.org 1.1 using the JDBC connector. I'm transferring the Christmas card mailing list over to it. I had quite a bit of trouble finding decent generic instructions so have a mind to write some.
• I've been getting Sun Java Desktop System (aka MadHatter) up and running on my old Thinkpad after I trashed it hacking. Running sweetly now, love it.

Amazing how time just evaporates when I get to doing this stuff, always has.

posted at 11:58 PM (UK) | |