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Frustrated with the lack of a decent desktop twitter client for Linux and challenged to make a Desktop app with PHP, phpitter was created. It keeps a good history (40, but you can modify it) of tweets, uses libnotify for notifications, caches profile images, has reply/retweet/direct buttons. Oh, and I'm trying to make it easy to extend by providing hooks for custom function calls. There are 3 hooks implemented with sample plugins provided.

How do you handle requests from your employer that you ethically disagree with? Mass emails, software piracy, content stealing, etc.

[I figured since he asked for input I would let you all give him some - Scott]

Just about all Linux server distributions install a sendmail daemon that listens on 127.0.0.1 and relays email for the localhost. This is all fine and dandy if you have a handful of Linux servers, but can turn in to chaos once you get 30+ Linux servers.

5+ year Linux user (straight Linux, no Windows on the desktop) spends 4 months with Vista as his desktop. Read how he got comfy (Getting Konsole running, WinMover and booting out Outlook) and his disappointments.

User is torn between needing an exchange environment and the comfort of Linux, so he chooses Mac. This is his experience so far.

Writing a custom app that could use a community bb, developer stumbles upon a ton more functionality added to his app after integrating it with phpBB than expected.

Thoughts on being a good System Administrator. Best practices for keeping things running and minimizing the number of off hours work.