Archive for April, 2012
Three screens
I’ve had a run of bad luck with screens recently.. Laptop The first casualty was my son’s X121e. He brought it home from school one evening saying ‘the screen on my laptop is broken … I didn’t drop it’. My response was of course ‘why are you telling me you didn’t drop it’, and ‘what […]
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Tags: Blade, fixing, iPad, IPad 2, laptop, LCD, lenovo, Orange San Francisco, phone, repair, screen, smartphone, Touch, X121, x121e, ZTE
This should work for any service that only supports POP3S, not just gmail. You’ll need a Linux box/VM (I generally use Ubuntu). Background Since the mid 90s I’ve used Ameol to retrieve email. When I started using gmail I forwarded mail on to my ISP’s POP3 service and collected it with Ameol so that I’d […]
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Tags: 110, 995, client, email, gmail, perdition, POP3, POP3S, port, proxy, stunnel, Ubuntu
Big Data – a little analysis
This post was inspired by a conversation I had with a VC friend a few weeks back, just as he was about to head out to the Structure conference that would be covering this topic. Big Data seems to be one of the huge industry buzz phrases at the moment. From the marketing it would […]
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Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, complexity, quant
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