Noulakaz

The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

Technology

How many networked devices do you have?

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I currently have 9 devices in my house capable of communicating across a network:

Device Wireless Wired Web access
An Apple MacBook running Mac OS X (which is currently being repaired) 11b+g Gigabit Yes
A desktop PC running Kubuntu Edgy Eft 11b+g Gigabit Yes
An old desktop PC running Damn Small Linux None 100Mbit/s Yes
A Sagem Livebox which acts as an ADSL modem, firewall and router 11b+g 100Mbit/s Yes
A Sagem IPTV decoder None 100Mbit/s No
Three Nokia mobile phones (6021 / 3020 / 3021) GPRS USB Yes
A Sony PEG-SJ20 Clié organiser Infrared USB No

How many do you have?

Special appeal to those living abroad: please don’t make us salivate too much…

Happy birthday to me :-)

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Today, I am celebrating my three years of blogging :-)

It all started on 16 March 2004 when I announced the creation of my blog powered at that time by Movabletype.

Since then a lot of things has happened. I’ve written 276 posts and received 1,367 comments. Thanks to all who have contributed to the discussions! Since then I have moved to WordPress which is a much better blogging software.

I like to reread some of the things I have written because they are not that bad… Here are some of my posts which have generated a lot of passion:

Have fun (re)reading them ;-)

Moving to Gmail

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“A toute chose, malheur est bon…”

While my MacBook is being repaired, I have decided to use my Gmail account temporarily to read and write emails. My initial intention was to forward all my email (from avinash AT noulakaz DOT net and avinash AT uom DOT ac DOT mu) there.

But then I discovered this screen…

… and I realised that I could use Gmail like a normal desktop email client. If you look closely, you’ll see that I can send emails from all the addresses I commonly use (notice the “reply from the same address the message was sent to” option – this is a killer feature!) and you’ll also see that I can fetch emails from my two usual POP3 accounts directly from Gmail.

In simpler terms, Gmail is now perfect! Bye bye desktop email clients… Now, if only I could import my old mails to Gmail! Maybe I’ll have to setup a POP3 server and ask Gmail to fetch all emails from it. Any idea?