As a long time user of mutt I've been happy with using it for all my needs. However, I have struggled to configure it for use in a profiles manor, with multiple mailboxes configured to use separate SMTP servers - including GMAIL - and a seamless way of switching between them! Today I sat down and spent some time working it through. With help from andre and CafeNinja I successfully implemented it.

When I first surfed (way back in 1996) Alta Vista was the search engine of choice and finding something was slow as heck - but there weren't many sites out there. Wikipedia wasn't authoritative and CDs were still the way to get access to archives of data. But then something happened; something changed; and now we have high-speed access to vast quantities of information. So much so, that we are dependant upon tools to filter the data for us. With our lives slowly progressing to "the cloud" the fight now, is to get hold of us!

SNAT (Sender Network Address Translation) under IPtables on Linux. It's used where you need to change the IP address that the packet is seemingly coming from. Great for when you need to make traffic look local.

If you can't think of something to tweet about, give TwitterMagnets a go. My effort resulted in:

why celebrate coffee
when you idleise champagne?

This week saw the release of Ubuntu's Jaunty Jakalope. Being an Ubuntu desktop user (no Windows installed anywhere in my home) I wanted to upgrade, but upgrading is usually a scary thing - and with Microsoft Windows it can take hours with multiple reboots along the way. How would a modern Linux distribution fair? Could anyone use its upgrade as easily as a standard Windows one?

Once again someone has kindly donated wallpapers to my site, this time it was Aldis Berjoza (killasmurf86). I've opted to host the widescreen versions as I don't have any, but should you desire them in another size you can download them directly from his site here

You're connected! The RJ-45 is patched in and the data flows freely. 24/7 you're reachable from anywhere in the world; if it's a website you need to see you just need the URL link; if it's a document, it can be emailed. You're practically a social outcast if you're not on the 'net and most people expect you to have a blog; or at least a facebook, myspace, MSN, twitter or some other account.

But where's the freedom to be off-line? Why does it feel like a crisis if the Internet isn't working? Why do we have to tell others we're going to be off-line?