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I’ve been playing around with Fedora Core 2’s Cyrus IMAP a bit and discovered the cyrus-imapd-nntp package.  This lets you export a shared IMAP folder via NNTP.  The cool part about this is that it’s a standard IMAP folder, like every user’s INBOX and custom folders.

This means that to set up a newsgroup, you only need to run cyradm and enter the following commands:

cm netnews.some.newsgroup  
setacl netnews.some.newsgroup group:users post

Assuming you’ve added newsprefix: netnews to your imapd.conf, this will add a new newsgroup “some.newsgroup” and give everyone post permissions.

Looks like Vorbis walloped WMA on the Multiformat listening test.

If you’re interested in how the test was run, Roberto Amorim has a page with all the details.

Personally I’m still using MP3s as my primary ripping format as it’s the format supported by pretty much every piece of software and hardware out there.  After this, I’m considering switching to Vorbis.  Unfortunately, I’ll have to give up my coveted iTunes at work unless I can find either a plug-in for Vorbis music or an iTunes clone (for Windows) that supports it.  Any hints?

I’m performing the task of apt-get dist-upgradeing to Fedora Core 2 as we speak.  The biggest reason is that I can’t get the latest development 2.6.5/2.6.6 kernels to boot on my system.  It’s freezing right after the “freeing kernel memory” line (trying to find /sbin/init, I assume).

I’ve found a thread on Google Groups potentially related to this issue, but I haven’t tried out the patch mentioned.

With the latest release of QEMU (0.5.4), it now boots Win2k perfectly.  I’ve fixed a small bug in the code preventing the Bochs VBE display driver from working and the full-color support looks awesome.  All but the first screenshot are running 1024x768x16bpp visuals.

Note that XP should boot full-color fine without the patch since, AFAIK, it has full VESA 2.0 support built-in.  You should be able to get 8-32 bpp visuals from the default Standard VGA driver.

Also, notice that QEMU runs Firefox flawlessly.  It’s a good test for full-color screens.

Are you a .NET coder?  Using continuous integration, or want to?  If so, check out Draco.NET.

Draco.NET now has a client-side GUI.  It can monitor your check-in builds and trigger a forced or normal build.  It sits in your system tray and hides itself when not needed.

You’ll need to build Draco from CVS to get this particular feature.  With any luck, there will be a 1.5 release soon and 1.6 betas soon after!