[Thu Jan 19 15:50:00 CST 2017]

If, like me, you use mutt as your email client, and also continue using Usenet news from time to time, you may be interested in mutt's NNTP feature. However, since it only works if the package was compiled with the --enable-nntp option (which many Linux distributions do not), you may also be interested in Leandro Lucarella's Debian package for mutt with the NNTP patch. {link to this entry}

[Wed Jan 18 11:51:22 CST 2017]

A coworker recently asked about the differences between the Chrome and Chromium browsers. For the most part, the main difference I heard is that Chromium is fully open source, while Chrome is not. However, there are also other significant differences that may have an impact on feature wise. Both this document and this other one do a good job explaining those, I think. To me, perhaps the most relevant difference is that Chrome bundles a modern version of Adobe Flash that runs on Linux, while Chromium does not. So, if you do need Flash, you are better off running Chrome. For the most part, I still prefer to stick with Firefox but, whenever I notice issues with videos using Flash, I switch to Chrome and, for the most part, never run into problems. {link to this entry}