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Time Machines: Atari's CES Endgame
Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets, and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills. In the weeks leading up to the biggest gadget show on Earth, we'll be offering a special look at relics from CES' past. Atari, a once seemingly untouchable gaming company, was beset by problems during the early '80s and saw its last chance for salvation in a fresh console release. It pitched this device, along with a very unique controller, at CES in 1984, but never managed to regain its footing in the industry. Head on past the break to find out more.
Use mailsend to send email from the Terminal
Update: After this article was written I learned of mstmp which I highly recommend instead of mailsend. There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron or launchd, when certain events happen (a backup has been completed), etc. I've found that none of the included command-line programs work. The good news is that, with a UNIX foundation, it was fairly easy to find a free program which would do just that. A little searching turned up a free program called mailsend, which will work. For this example I will be using a Gmail account, which requires OpenSSL. Your mail server may not require OpenSSL support, but if it's possible, I encourage you to use it. The short version of the instructions are as follows: 1) Download and install OpenSSL to /usr/local/ssl/ 2) Download and install mailsend to somewhere in your path such as /usr/local/bin/ 3) Use mailsend -h to learn how to use it on the commandline 4) (Optional) Use TextExpander 3 to fill in some of the variable fields, such as To, Subject, and Message. Read on for more of a step by step walk-through.
