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Archive for August 2007

OpenBSD: testing the water

I’ve been dabbling with OpenBSD for a little while; it intrigues me as the philosophy and ideals form a good contrast to the way things usually work for Linux-based systems. I’m still very new to it, but I’ve learned a few key lessons: All the BSD variants, including OpenBSD, are direct descendents (in a source-code… (read more)

An ‘Inbox Zero’ approach

Recently at work, I decided to give a short series of seminars. One of these was very strongly based on the Inbox Zero approach, which I have been using myself ever since I implemented my own Desktop Revolution last year. The general ideas are: switch off automatic email notification (e.g. sounds, popup windows); use occasional… (read more)