the echothis blog

The Plesk 8 default webmail client is Horde, which would be fine if it was 2002. For me it was nothing but a headache (I never did get rid of all the PHP warnings), and worse, it seemed to consistently mangle sent emails. Finally I had the last straw and moved to Roundcube, which I’ve… Continue reading Installing Roundcube webmail on Plesk 8

I wanted to test out media sharing to a Windows 7 PC. My music server is running Vista and has quite a lot of music on it. The sharing feature seemed unreliable for me – sometimes when I would connect to the remote library it wouldn’t show any media, and other times it would only… Continue reading Refreshing a shared Vista Media Center library

I had a complete drive failure on my LaCie EDMini drive yesterday (it would start up and then turn itself off after 30 seconds). I had gotten a good 3 years of constant use out of it, though, so I shouldn’t complain. Good thing I had the automatic nightly backups to my FreeNAS server, so… Continue reading Setting up an RSYNC server on Windows Vista

According to the San Francisco Examiner, there’s a new policy proposed in the city to encourage open source software in government: The policy says departments must “consider open source software equally with commercial products when purchasing new software.” Open source software allows the public to access government information and the ability to make creative use… Continue reading Open Source Software = Transparent Government? Um, not quite…

The excellent XTide program can be used to generate tide (and, for some locations, current) predictions for many locations in the U.S. and overseas. Compiling it goes pretty smoothly according to the directions, but there were a few gotchas for me There was a missing dependency relating to something in X11 for me, not listed… Continue reading Compiling XTide on CentOS 5