Yesterday Adobe officially announced that they will be distributing Google Toolbar. In the press release, Omid Kordestani of Adobe mentions:

Adobe customers are some of the most savvy, enthusiastic consumers of Web content, and we think they’ll love the fact that Google Toolbar will let them take the power of Google search with them anywhere on the Web

I wonder if they realzie those “savvy” will probably already have it installed, if not by themselves, I’m sure one of the many other bundled apps will probably do it. I vaguely remember seeing links for it bundled in several apps I’ve installed recently (all with the default to install). Lets just hope they [Adobe] go for a slightly better route, and don’t make it the default.

Okay, odd… I’ve just realized I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project now since about 2002, and in the 4 years I’ve been on the project, I don’t believe I’ve written a single plugin. Most unusual, however today I remedied that with a request in #squirrelmail for a new version of ip_user. I quickly knocked together ip_restrict which basically restricts users to certain IP addresses, or networks, depending on your configurations. You can download it here.

So I admit, I’m all for torturing the hell out of people that sexually assult children, but what parent would let their 14 year old daughter go to meet somebody they met online without being with them? Seriously? Any takers? No, didn’t think so… At least not the sane. But apparently somebody did. And for their incompetency as parents, they want to make somebody else pay.

Who better to represent England in the World Cup than two bald gay guys… you know… the ones from the early 90s with the song “I’m Too Sexy”… yes yes… Right Said Fred are representing England for the world cup.

After months and months of complaining about the state of the hardware in our servers, they’ve finally got around to approving new servers (bit by bit). One of the first servers I wanted to upgrade was our domain controllers. One of them has a BIOS issue that HP won’t fix (but acknowledge exists) and the other is having drive issues. The servers are both so old that:

• It’s impossible to get drives for the servers without selling your family, and your soul to the devil.
• HP doesn’t support them any more.

So after finally getting approval for a new server, we got a nice shiney Dell ordered. PowerEdge 1850, mid-range, Windows 2003 R2. Our supplier is pretty good, they realized that purchasing a volume license for Windows is cheaper than purchasing a single license. And as we deal with a lot of servers, volume licensing certainly comes in handy.

Go Greenpeace.

Brought to you by the folks over at Lifehacker is a nice little handful of scripts (bash and python) that makes simple TODO managing not so difficult. Todo.txt is a nice bash script that manages todo lists in a simple plain text fashion. Nothing too complicated. It even allows you to break things down into projects, and such too. Very nifty. Windows users will probably want to grab a copy of cygwin as well.

In addition, they also have a nifty little Python script called Birdseye that can give you a nice overview of your projects.

Ever had a todo list so long that you easily lose track of things? And when you finally remember them, they make you want to avoid them? Here is some advice that seems quite good. Might have to give it a shot as I know I have a handful of projects on the back burner that I just keep putting off…

And they’re still talking about her boob.

I don’t know what the hell Microsoft were thinking when they did this, but they need to be shot.

Notice the extra option at the bottom of the MMC window? That should be a “close” like it is on every single application except mmc… argh wtf? I’m forever clicking on it instead of close. And then you have to wait 30 seconds for the help thing to come up.