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My sister has sent me again an attachment which was encoded in the winmail.dat attachment. Sucks big time. Not only Linux users get pissed but also Macintosh users. Of course you can open it as long as you know how. On Mac OS X you need TNEF's Enough and on Linux you need tnef. Suse Linux 9.2 has an rpm that works well with KMail. Just click the winmail.dat and select "Open with tnef".

A while ago our server seems to have a hard disk failure as the following error messages kept coming up: hda: dma timeout error: [...] hda: dma_timer_expiry: [...] We exchanged the 20 GB HD against my old Mac's 4.7 GB HD and reinstalled the system. A friend of mine tried the "broken" 20GB HD on a Windows system and said it works fine.

If you manually want to syncronize your computer's clock with a time server: sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate tick.keso.fi