Ubuntu 9.10

It was just more than 2 years ago that I started learning Ubuntu and it was 6.06.

I spent nearly the entire afternoon upgrading to 9.10 via internet

9.10_upgrade

It was done without a glitch.

bcc myself

For many years we like forwarding incoming emails to a webmail provider such as gmail (because it's nearly bottomless but not quite) so that we can still read emails when we are away from office. OWA, Outlook Web Access, of our exchange servers isn't available in our company.

Forwarding incoming email by a rule isn't too difficult this can be done in Tools>Rules and Alerts in outlook. However there isn't a simple way to get a copy of all my outgoing email to my webmail account.

The solution is VBA, something that I haven't touched for many years, coding in Outlook.

Fire up your VBA IDE in outlook by Alt-F11, paste the code from here, don't forget something basics of VBA in here about security settings then it's easily done.

Now I'm not forwarding my office emails to gmail instead I'm trying out hotmail to see if it's as good as gmail.

Windows 7 RC

Now I'm playing with it. If you want better download experience use IE7 or IE8 (sorry IE6 no good). If you insist on FF like me you'll be downloading Java download manager like below first.

java_download

then you'll see this

start_downloading

depending on, I believe, your connection/reception speed the number of connections will vary. In the office I had 1~2 at home I had up to 4. The total download took less than 3 hours at home.

Installation took around 30 minutes depending on your hardware, don't forget to keep record of below as you may have to install it again later.

win7_RC_key

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