I am documenting here the steps I took to convert a bunch of Windows PST files to Mbox format for importing into Apple Mail. This uses freely available open source software and the command line and it is not for your average user.
There may be some cost involved in getting your hands on Xcode so you can install MacPorts. I had MacPorts already installed so I could install a number of tools I regularly use so the whole process was greatly simplified for me. If the idea of installing Xcode and Macports turns you off then look elsewhere. I believe that Xcode 4.x can be bought by anyone on the Mac App Store (4Gb download) whereas the previous version required you to register as a developer but was free.
You can also do this conversion by other methods I am sure however I am only focussing on one.
Coming from Windows to Mac I occasionally find little annoyances that get in the way of how I am used to working. One of those is right clicking a file and just being able to select send to email recipient.
While this is possible out of the box with Apple Mail it is not with Outlook 2011. However there is an easy way to set it up and it also introduces you to the amazing Mac app that is The Automator !
Once you have set this example up you should be able to work out how to set up a lot of short cuts and things you need to automate, Most applications are well supported in Automator and Outlook is one of them.
This article was written using evaluation versions of Ecto and MarsEdit, more about that in the next article.
Please bear with me while I rebuild the site back from scratch. The server is was hosted on went south and of course the backup drive went south as well. I have got most of my articles back and will slowly add back downloads. If you are looking for Loggerythm I should have links back in a couple of days. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. For info this site is now hosted on a Mac mini running Snow Leopard server and at the same time I have moved to Joomla 1.5 Phill H (Ec) (ME) (ME2)
I was looking around for some CPU benchmarks and happened to stumble across this piece of crap on what always used to be quite a good web site http://www.tomshardware.com/us/press/OCP-Power-Safety-26 I have reproduced the entire ad / article lest it be pulled.
Myth 3: A Single Rail Power Supply Is As Safe As A Multi Rail Power Supply! NO!
Single-rail power supplies do not come with the over current protection (OCP) safety function on their +12V rail. OCP limits the current that can go through the PSU's rails into your PC when it exceeds a certain point, called the OCP set point. OCP is necessary because if you experience a short circuit in your system (which is unfortunately possible, even with modern equipment and building techniques) OCP will cause the power supply to shut off, preventing excessive levels of current from flowing into your system and damaging the hardware attached to it.
A single-rail power supply unfortunately does not provide this safety feature, due to its high current rails with up to 100A (100A x 12V = 1200 watts!). In the event of a short circuit or other failure of hardware, current flows unhindered into the system and damages everything in its path. If the user is unlucky and acts as grounding at that exact moment it could be even life-threatening. Are you really sure you want to install an unsafe power supply like this?
This ones too weird, when I found what it was I didn't find anyone else who was having the same problem, so I post it here in the hope that someone can shed some light on it. We built some new servers using these nice new Antec cases with Antec PSU and Intel Server Board S3200SHV, all was going well until I installed SQL 2005 on 2 of them, they were all running Windows Server 2003 SP2. When memory use got high they would bugcheck, or blue screen.
Found out something interesting today that might apply to other brands
of RAID cards but I am talking about the 3Ware 9650 series here, I am
using this one - 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML, so for info, just in case you have
this function on your card and didn't know about it.
These are multilane controllers which are pretty cool, less cables,
anyways, I was setting one up last week and I did the usual way. 8
ports available, usually you would do
2 x hdd for one RAID 1 for O/S
5 x HDD for one RAID 5 for data
1 Hotspare
I am using WD 750gb HDD, so I would have
750 gb for O/S (a complete waste of space) and about 3Tb for data.
Have been running Windows 7 for a about a month now at home since the
last build (7000) came out, and I have to say I am mega impressed, I
came so close to dumping Windows for a Mac, something I always said I
would never do, but this came along just in the nick of time.
I have been using Vista since first Betas and was always waiting for it
to get "better" but it never really did, SP1 was great but there is
still that continual disk thrashing which quite simply started to drive
me nuts, on a big desktop with fast hard disks you can almost live with
it but on a slower laptop forget it, to say it's hopeless would be an
understatement. Thats the down side, the upside of Vista was that it is
infinitely more stable than XP, and if you say otherwise you are
dreaming, XP is good, but it has it's faults. UAC never worried me as I
was used to it already having used Linux and Mac desktops a lot where
one has to not just press a button but type in an admin password for
certain actions, like install software, I have never turned UAC off.
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I had this error with Firefox after the latest update to 3.05 on Windows Vista, I got it on my work machine but not my home machine which are almost identical. So what would happen is I get this dialog box saying "software update failed" then some rubbish about make sure another copy of Firefox is not running etc it then goes into a loop with no way out except to kill firefox.exe in task mananger.
After a lot of searching on the Internet I found lots of solutions, none of which worked for me, in the end I found a way around it, maybe this might work for you. Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox or wherever Firefox is installed, right click firefox.exe and then select "run as administrator" say yes when asked if you want the program to run by UAC, then for me update.exe was able to do whatever it was it wanted to do and Firefox would start, you can then quit Firefox and start it normally, you just need to do the above once to get past the update error, et voila.
I started seeing in a lot of emails recently the use
of the word “revert” in place of “get back to you” or “respond”. Just never made
any sense to me, this one I got today. “Will revert with numbers as soon as
I have the information”.
I was starting
to think it was just me but I did some digging and I would like to point out
that sentences such as the one above are NOT grammatically correct. From what I
can gather this usage seems to have originated in India and funnily enough that
was the first place I saw it, it also seems it is fairly common in some parts
of Asia and Ireland. So what’s my point, not sure really, just pointing out
that this is not the correct use of the word revert, but as we all now, English
evolves at a rapid pace and before we know it this will start appearing in
dictionaries as correct usage of the word.
Yesterday SOPHOS, a well known Anti Virus vendor published a report here "Pitcairn Islands relays most spam per person, reveals Sophos" the gist of which is that 10 countries that have barely any population are the world leaders of "spam emitted per capita" to Mr SOPHOS I say what a load of baloney. Even if this was true, for arguments sake, what are we talking about here ? The population of Pitcairn is something is around 64 people !! (yes sixty four as in six four) So if 50% of the Pitcairn population had PC's and 50% of those were infected thats 16 people with PC's "emitting" spam, what does this mean, nothing, thats what it means, get real.
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or an Adobe Acrobat Reader alternative ... OK, I admit it, I absolutely hate Acrobat Reader, it is the biggest load of shite I have installed on my PC. It is slow to load, slow to do just about anything, when it opens in your browser you know you can probably kiss your browser session goodbye, then there is the sheer size of the monster, 33Mb download. On top of that it installs an update agent that on my Vista machine goes to 50% CPU and stays there every time it runs until I kill it. So, this is basically a piece of software that people install because they believe they have to and that there is no alternative, well I have good news for you.
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This is an article about how to get Joomla and SEF working on an IIS 6.0 server, this took me a couple of days to fully work out so I hope this save someone some time. The basic Joomla SEF / SEO is relatively easy to get working but does not really give you much, what I wanted was one of the more fancy SEF components to work with IIS that gave me nice friendly URL's that meant something, on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0
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Like you didn't already know that, but it hurts when technology and well known web sites just make it easier for sharks to prey on "not so bright" people all over the world. I mean I can't believe this, there are stores on EBay that sell nothing but FREE software! Who are the people that buy this ? I can understand buying something on CD if say for example it is a Linux distro and weighs in at 700Mb but most of what I am talking about here would be easier to download than a typical EBay page :) OK, this is but one example, there are many .........
http://stores.ebay.com/HawkeCode
If it's pulled here are a few examples
Audacity MUSIC EDITOR/Audio Editing/MP3/Mix/Record Pro
US $8.11
Time Left: 3d 07h 17m
What I was trying to achieve here was to get out of adding a printer each time a new user logged onto a any Windows XP box here. I guess ther are probably a million ways to do this and this is but one, but it is really simple to use and works well.
OK, for this to work you have to be an admin on the target box, you can do this from your own workstation also which is pretty cool and works from Vista or XP. Open a DOS box and type
