Google Talk in Pidgin working behind enterprisey proxy

When I configured Pidgin 2.5.5 to use talk.google.com as Jabber server, the proxy said: HTTP/1.1 403 This URL is explicitly denied from being proxied Fortunately it was a very stupid proxy, so resolving talk.google.com to an IP address worked fine! Here is the advanced settings screen for the working connection:

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To upgrade or not to upgrade?

I have updated a couple of my Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) installations to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) but not yet my primary laptop. I was about to do that tonight (isn’t starting something at 22:00 a grea idea?) but the upgrade procedure showed me the message below, making me postpone the upgrade and write this blog post… Continue reading To upgrade or not to upgrade?

SourceForge replaces part of its platform with hosted applications

As project administrator for a couple of SourceForge projects I recently received an e-mail about the upcoming deprecation of multiple applications that are part of the SourceForge platform: The following applications are due to be deprecated, replaced by high-quality Open Source applications we have in our Hosted Apps offering: TaskManager will be replaced by TaskFreak!,… Continue reading SourceForge replaces part of its platform with hosted applications

Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail

I ran imapsync on my mail server like this to move a couple of accounts away from my server: imapsync  –syncinternaldates –host1 localhost –user1 user –password1 secret  –host2 imap.gmail.com –port2 993 –ssl2 –user2 [email protected] –password2 secret  –authmech1 LOGIN –authmech2 LOGIN –split2 100 (WordPress is a bit too clever, so — above means two hyphens. Sorry.)… Continue reading Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail

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