I'm planning to move all my mailboxes to an IMAP server running on foolab.org, use offlineIMAP to sync between vader "my laptop" and naboo "foolab.org".

I've installed Debian long ago. I wanted to write this howto since then but I had some problems with the laptop hardware I was unable to solve until today.

Now this laptop is really cool. I bought an extra gig RAM and replaced the 40 gigs harddrive with another 80 gigs one because The one equipped with it was dying.

I always had a problem with Arabic HTML emails. They don't specify the encoding.

I'm using mutt (Yes!) as my mail reader. HTML emails can be handled using lynx and a mailcap entry like this:

So, You are behind a firewall blocking the pop3 port ? No worries

Here's part of my fetchmailrc:

poll foolab.org with proto POP3
user 'XXX' there with password 'YYY' is 'ZZZ' here options ssl fetchall no rewrite

Arabic is somehow a complex language when it comes to computer processing, It requires certain capabilities from the rendering and processing engines.
I'd consider 2 things to be the most important things, BiDi and Shaping, While Shaping deals with the different forms of a letter according to its position in the word, BiDi deals with the arrangement of embedded Arabic and English words.

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This is the first of a network programming tutorials.

I hate such theoretical boring things, So I'll just copy and paste whatever I think'd be useful.

Ok, Here's another one.

I had to bundle firefox as part of a solution we are providing.

We have a bootable CD I've buit myself.
The CD'll install all the software we want to bundle so no need for the firefox installer.

So you need to listen to midi, eh ?
I've done this under Debian testing "sarge" at thet time

So, I had to do it today, Why was I afraid ? Don't ask, No answer, I don't know.

Now for the dirty work.

As usual: I'm using Debian woody.

When I installed Debian, I choose testing due to the hardware support, I Installed using the new Debian installer "Beta 4" at that time. Booting and installation went fine with no problems.

Below you'll find more details.