Comments on: Thunderbird New Mail Notifier http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/ There is no tagline. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: QuantumBox http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-4252 QuantumBox Wed, 05 May 2010 23:17:39 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-4252 Ubuntu 10.04, Thunderbird 3.04
Thunderbird refuses to install, citing that Biff does not have security updates. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Jaap http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3571 Jaap Sat, 03 May 2008 18:23:35 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3571 Oke, exactly what I was looking for :) Thanks!

]]> By: Scott Carpenter http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3461 Scott Carpenter Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:31:05 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3461 You’re welcome, Ion. Glad to have been of assistance. :-)

]]> By: Ion Freeman http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3460 Ion Freeman Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:11:41 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3460 Thanks, Scott! I just finally lost patience with Evolution and came back to Thunderbird, but I missed Evolution’s mail notifier. And I have fond memories of biff and xbiff, so I like the name.

]]> By: Scott Carpenter http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3240 Scott Carpenter Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:27:43 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3240 Hi, Mario. I was wondering where that came from.

Although unrelated, reminds me of B1FF and his posts from his brother’s Commodore 64.

]]> By: Mario Stargard http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3238 Mario Stargard Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:02:38 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/09/25/thunderbird-new-mail-notifier/#comment-3238 One of the things I love about Unix systems is the history. From the jargon file:

biff = “BIFF”

This command, which turns on asynchronous mail notification,
was actually named after a dog at Berkeley.

I can confirm the origin of biff, if you’re interested.
Biff was Heidi Stettner’s dog, back when Heidi (and I, and
Bill Joy) were all grad students at U.C. Berkeley and the
early versions of BSD were being developed. Biff was
popular among the residents of Evans Hall, and was known
for barking at the mailman, hence the name of the command.

Confirmation courtesy of Eric Cooper, Carnegie Mellon University

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