Following my email implosion, I'm seriously considering dropping the native Mac Mail.app and using Thunderbird instead. Apples decision to go with a proprietary mail formal (emlx) rather than the standard mbox format (as an optimization for Spotlight searching) makes me a bit uncomfortable, and the serious Mail.app failure, hiding half my mail for two weeks, leaves me less confident that I can switch when I have to without losing information. Mail and its history is precious stuff.
MacOSXHints points to a converter to generate mbox files from the Apple emlx format.
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In response to recent question on the ProLinux list, Paul McNett pointed to his blog entry outlining how to configure Samba to act as a PDC, ideal for a small group of Windows workstations that need roaming profiles, personal and shared storage and centralized applications. Great post, Paul!
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Over at O'Reilly's ONLamp site, Jeremy Jones noted last week the release of SQLAlchemy 0.30. Lloyd Kvam had mentioned in his TurboGears presentation last month that TurboGears was going to be expanding their current support for Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tools to include SQLAlchemy. I'm looking forward to playing around with this and trying to grok the difference beween ORMs and cursors and views. So much to learn...
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The Free Software Foundation has a marvelous campaign against Digital Restriction Management, the "right" claimed by media companies to prevent you from exercising your fair-use rights to play your purchased music, audio, video on the player and in the format of your choice. Such software and hardware is:
Defective By Design. A great concept!
