HOWTO: Nice new mail announcements with Ubuntu Dapper and Thunderbird

First install the Mailbox Alert Extension. Then install libnofity and dbus. These are new messaging libraries apt-get install libnotify1 libnotify-bin dbus Open Thunderbird. Click on Tools->Current Mailbox Alert. Try this command: /usr/bin/notify-send -i /usr/share/pixmaps/mozilla-thunderbird.xpm %sendername %subject Then whenever you get new mail you’ll get a nice little notification in the bottom right hand corner.

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CAPTCHA!

As recommended by a friend I have started using HN_CAPTCHA to validate humans. The adventure began when I noticed that the amount of money I had in my account was rapidly dwindling away to nothing. Now my hosting provider is amazingly cheap so I initially had no explanation as to what was causing the approximately […]

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