If you have an e-mail account @otenet.gr you may find out that when connecting your laptop to another network (say you’re travelling) you can’t send SMTP e-mails. To fix this make sure you set your STMP server settings to use SSL encryption and provide the port number 465 for connection. If you use Outlook (Express) […]

To sum up the discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1360113/is-java-regex-thread-safe/, you can reuse (keep in static variables) the compiled Pattern(s) and tell them to give you new Matchers when needed to validate those regex pattens against some string: import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern;  /** * ...

I recently received a promotional e-mail from an e-shop I mainly use to buy home appliances in Greece that was really funny: at the top offer there was a TV, but although the e-mail had been just sent (judging from its date/time stamp) the image already had a mark “exhausted” on it. Obviously it was [...]