Archives for November 2007

Thunderbird new mail notification and Spam

It has driven me (and quite a few others) nuts for some time now: New mail comes in that is junk or filtered as spam and the new mail alert sound still plays. Who wants to be notified of incoming junk? Nobody.
I’ve looked but can’t find the Thunderbird bug report where I added [...]

Software Gone Wild: Red Hat rpm

Now in what I believe is its 8th year, the Red Hat Package Manager should be taken into a field and shot dead.

Usage: rpm [-aKfgpWHqV] [-aKfgpWHqVcdils]
[-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqV] [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqV]
[-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqV] [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVK]
[-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVK] [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKi]
[-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKiv] [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKiv]
[-aKfgpWHqVcdilsaKfgpWHqVKiv?] [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group]
[-p|--package] [-W|--ftswalk] [--pkgid] [--hdrid] [--fileid]
[--specfile] [--triggeredby] [--whatrequires] [--whatprovides]
[--nomanifest] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles] [--dump] [-l|--list]
[--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state] [--nomd5] [--nofiles]
[--nodeps] [--noscript] [--comfollow] [--logical] [--nochdir]
[--nostat] [--physical] [--seedot] [--xdev] [--whiteout]
[--addsign] [...]