Extracts all attachments from selected messages and then can delete, detach or mark-read.by Andrew Williamson (eviljeff)Just select the messages containing the attachments you want to extract and select 'Extract Attachments' and this extension does the rest. No more having to go through each message to extract the attachments!
Check out the settings dialog for the different options.
Ruckus Wireless Technology Review at Gadget Center talks about new wireless access point and wireless client products from Singaporean company Ruckus Wireless which promises to solve the problem of low quality IPTV over wireless transmission with a combination of technologies called BeamFlex and SmartCast.
The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.Well of course this is what is found on Apple's website. Look at what ArsTechnica has to say about it.
is an extremely useful free add-on for Internet Explorer that mimics Firefox's search behavior. It turns searching in a web page into a non-modal research experience coupled with a find as you type facility.I've just installed WINE on the development servers for generating software release packages that require some processing in Windows. Since all our servers are Linux based, using WINE allows us to add functionality for Windows-based software without having to bear the extra cost of installing extra Windows servers. Even though there are still fatal bugs, especially with running Cygwin applications (you might be thinking who would want to run Cygwin on WINE/Linux!!!) and it doesn't run well with older libraries, when it works, it is a gem to have. For those who have sneered with disdain at WINE in the past, now is probably the time to start looking at it.
Well, that is to the people who subscribe to the Embedded Muse newsletter by Jack Ganssle.
The following is an excerpt of his 151st edition of the newsletter. The "engineer" was me! I mentioned this to him during his Better Firmware Faster seminar in Singapore on the 18 and 19 October 2007.
Heh, Jack Ganssle actually learnt something from ME! :-)
On an unrelated note, an engineer recently referred me to another of
Joel's posts that I had somehow missed:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html . It's
Joel's test of a healthy software organization. Do read the article,
but he believes we should all be able to answer "yes" to these
questions:
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
I'm a bit unconvinced about the last question for most embedded apps,
but these others are spot-on.
This one was taken without flash. (notice Jack's grin).
This one was taken with flash.
#!"C:\Python24\Python.exe"
import os, sys, time
if sys.platform=='win32': import msvcrt
apacheHelp = '''This directive adds an action, which will activate cgi-script when a file is requested using the method of method. The cgi-script is the URL-path to a resource that has been designated as a CGI script using ScriptAlias or AddHandler. The URL and file path of the requested document is sent using the standard CGI PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED environment variables.'''
def reportError(errMsg):
print 'Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n'
print errMsg
def debugEnv():
print 'Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n'
for x in os.environ.keys():
print x,'=',os.environ[x]
def getenv(name):
try:
return os.environ[name]
except KeyError:
return ''
def writeFile(path, srcFD):
dstFD = open(path, 'wb')
numWrite = 0
while True:
buf = srcFD.read(1024)
if len(buf)==0: break
dstFD.write(buf)
dstFD.flush()
numWrite += len(buf)
dstFD.close()
return numWrite
# debugEnv()
def main():
pathInfo = getenv('PATH_INFO')
if (not pathInfo.startswith('/uploads/')):
reportError('Disallowed upload path ' + pathInfo)
sys.exit(1)
if pathInfo.endswith('/'):
reportError('Cannot upload file as a directory!')
sys.exit(2)
if sys.platform=='win32': msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), (os.O_BINARY))
size = writeFile(getenv('PATH_TRANSLATED'), sys.stdin)
reportError('')
print '%d bytes written to %s\n' % (size, pathInfo)
if '__main__'==__name__:
main()
This was the original article by Alfred Siew that started it all (way to go Alfred!):Higher broadband speeds benefit consumers
I REFER to the letter by SingTel's Mr Peter Heng, 'Broadband 'speed race'? No real need for one' (ST, July 24).
In spite of Mr Heng's assertion that 'any speed beyond 20Mbps today cannot be feasibly used by individual customers', our research indicates that many homes in Singapore now use multiple computers to access the Internet simultaneously over a single connection.
It is also very common for some users to have multiple, concurrent applications and downloads.
Therefore, there will always be a clear, present need for broadband speeds (including beyond 20Mbps) that offer better performance to each user in a home network.
We believe this is also why the global broadband industry is evolving the home networking technology to the newer IEEE802.11n standard, such that consumers will be able to enjoy these higher speeds wirelessly.
According to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore's online publication, Consumer Information On Residential Broadband Services In Singapore (http://www.ida.gov.sg/Publications/20061213184450.aspx), with higher broadband speeds consumers enjoy better value and benefit more from multiple Internet connections over a single broadband service, as well as a single Internet connection that supports several concurrent online applications.
We agree with Mr Heng that Internet content for consumers in Singapore is largely hosted overseas but we wish to highlight that the nature of the public Internet is such that it will always be a shared infrastructure, and the access is only as good as the weakest and slowest link. StarHub ensures that the weakest link is never within the local-access network.
StarHub ensures there is sufficient bandwidth capacity within the network to deliver the speeds that our customers are paying for. Our cable broadband service, with the new state-of-the-art channel-bonding technology, deployed over fibre-optic and coaxial cables, delivers higher broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps nationwide. No other country in the world offers these speeds to households.
In addition, our cable broadband network uses dedicated frequencies/channels for the individual delivery of video, data and voice services without compromising quality.
Jeannie Ong (Ms)
Head
Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
StarHub
SINGAPORE: SingTel takes a breather in speed race
SingTel is considering a network upgrade to keep pace with competitors
The Straits Times
Friday, July 20, 2007
By Alfred Siew
Singtel has scaled back its bid to offer the fastest broadband service here for the time being, as it mulls over a network upgrade to keep pace with rivals.
Top-end services -- costing more than $100 a month -- attract heavy users like gamers who crave the extra bandwidth for smoother action on screen.
But after a year of intense competition, SingTel is rethinking this niche market.
The telecom operator stopped selling its 25 megabits per second (mbps) service as a standalone offering a few months ago. It is available now only as part of a $150 bundle of services, including cellphone calls.
Mr Allen Lew, SingTel's chief executive officer for Singapore, cited "low demand and take-up from customers" as reasons for this.
However, the company will continue providing the 25mbps service to existing subscribers, who pay $125 a month.
Mr Lew argued that most home users do not need speeds of more than 20mbps because websites overseas -- where 85 per cent of traffic heads to -- have a cap on how fast users can download.
"We're not saying we are not competing on speed, all we're saying is that any speed above 20mbps is irrelevant in the context of what consumers are using broadband Internet for," he said.
The next fastest service from SingTel now offers 10mbps.
This leaves the high-end market open to rival StarHub, which launched a 100mbps service last December.
Mr Thomas Ee, StarHub's senior vice-president for cable, fixed and Internet protocol services, told The Straits Times it is ready to boost speeds up to 160mbps "when the demand picks up."
The company had said previously that faster speeds would benefit users with multiple computers at home.
SingTel and StarHub are neck and neck in their share of the home broadband market, which also includes smaller players like MobileOne.
Despite not pushing for more speed now, SingTel has been testing other technologies, like fibre optic cables, that support faster speeds, over the past year. But these require running new cables into homes.
Ultra-fast broadband has seen some early success in places like Hong Kong, where videos and other online content are available locally.
Date Posted: 7/20/2007
