Vallified

I am a Yahoo! Mail Plus subscriber and recently noticed that my outbound e-mail rewrote my name as Philip O'Toole.

Seemingly it had been like this for weeks, but it only caught my attention when I sent an e-mail to my work account. Of course, if you’re a programmer it’s pretty obvious what is going on here. Yahoo!’s code is replacing the apostrophe in my name with the corresponding ASCII code. I tried resetting my name in the Options->General section but it didn’t help. Finally, after setting up a second free Yahoo! account, I worked out where to fix this – under Options->Account. It is there you’ve got to tweak your name settings.

Where to really fix your name in Yahoo! Mail

This drove me nuts – I was even on to Yahoo! support. This might help someone else out there. I would guess that Yahoo! processed the data on their servers recently, and mangled the names while doing so.

I’ve had various problems with Yahoo! Mail over the last year – perhaps because Yahoo! seems to be a company in turmoil, and is having a hard time keeping it together.

Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3

I got around to installing Yellow Dog 6.1 using a DVD of the full distro. The installation went OK, and the installer fired up in graphical mode. However it proceeded to create the swap partition almost immediately because of low-memory concerns.

When it completed YDL was quite zippy – a much, much better experience than I got from FC12. I even had audio.

I may actually use this – it depends if I can get particular media players running on it.

In between bouts of Wipeout HD, I net-installed 64-bit Fedora Core 12 on my 80GB PS3. Installation with PetitBoot didn’t present any problems, though audio didn’t seem to work. However FC12 is quite slow on my PS3, so I ain’t going to use it – it seems it’s paging to disk a lot.

I knew something was up when Anaconda wouldn’t fire up the graphical installer due to insufficient memory, which made it a pain to customize the software. The other thing I noticed (at least, I think I noticed it) is that FC12 showed the same MAC addresses for both eth0 and wlan0. I actually had to tell it to get a DHCP address from wlan0 before it got network connectivity – and it then got an IP address from my wired router. It seems like FC12 had swapped them.

I might try Yellow Dog Linux next.

Wipeout 2097 looks pretty poor compared to this