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The perfect email setup… for me

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Email has always been a problem for me. Using web interfaces is a pain. Even the new JavaScript, single-page apps nowadays are bloated and slow. You can’t compare them to evolution, thunderbird or even outlook 🙂 Most Email Service Providers (ESPs) do provide POP3, but POP3 doesn’t support folders and is not a good option […]

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Making the most out of a 64MB VPS

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

About 2 months ago I got myself a Virtual Private Server(VPS) from http://www.vpsvillage.com. I am paying $5 a month for a Xen virtual machine with 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. I have lots of plans for my VPS. The most essential is hosting my website (basically this blog plus a small rails […]

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