Wisdom is the prime thing

Recently I gave VirtualBox a spin. It was recently opened under the GPL license, and I wanted to see how it compared to QEMU. Since version 0.9.0 I have had a hard time getting the kqemu module to provide the significant speedup I grew accustomed to. It’s been far too slow to be usable.

Here’s how I converted my QEMU image to a VirtualBox .vdi file. So far I’ve been very pleased with the results.

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The other day I upgraded msmtp to 1.4.11 on my ArchLinux box, and mutt started choking every time I sent an email through my gmail account. Specifically, I was getting the following error:

msmtp: account default from /home/mychael/.msmtprc: tls requires either  
tls_trust_file (highly recommended) or a disabled tls_certcheck

Well, googling brought me absolutely no solutions, so the whole experience was quite a pain. Anyway, here’s how to fix it…

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I just finished setting up SCIM in Archlinux, and was surprised at how easy and fast it was.

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