Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli:

• CCC | Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz – Der CCC – Die Stimme der Vernunft.
• CMS Tree Page View – is a plugin for WordPress that adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.
• Aufbewahrungsfristen für Dokumente – Sehr praktische Informationen aus der Quintessenz von WDR 2.
• Exchange ActiveSync on Mac OS X Server –
• UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits –
• Mailboxes – is a multi-user Gmail client for the iPad, letting you easily and securely access your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on a shared iPad.
• The Firmware Umbrella – Making local iOS Restores possible by saving your SHSH hashes locally and at Cydia. This way, even when (not if) Apple decides to stop signing your firmware, you are still able to install it…
• Hacking Network Printers (Mostly HP JetDirects, but a little info on the Ricoh Savins) – This article will attempt to point out some of the more interesting things that can be done with a network based printer to make it reveal information about its users, owners and the network it's part of.
• Disk2vhd – is a utility that creates VHD versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
• London Food Tipps » tautoko weblog – Asian food and coffee stores.

Ich bin seit eineinhalb Jahrzehnten online. Es kommt vor, dass ich gerne Informations-Kanäle nutze, die auf frische Facebook- und Twitter-Adepten ein wenig old fashioned wirken könnten, aber dennoch¹ sehr effizient funktionieren. Dazu gehören beispielsweise Mailinglisten. Vor kurzem habe ich die vcs-home Liste² abonniert und da dort aktuell eher wenig Traffic aufläuft, wollte ich einen Blick in die Archive der Liste werfen.

Dort erhält man zwar einen netten Überblick über die verschiedenen Threads, aber ich dachte mir, dass es doch sicherlich auch ganz nett wäre, die alten Artikel in mein Mailprogramm³ zu bekommen. Da das hier das Internet ist, war ich nicht der erste mit dieser Idee. Die Software namens Mailman, die die vcs-home Liste und eine Vielzahl anderer Listen antreibt, stellt die Archive aber leider nur in gezipptem Text zur Verfügung und die meisten Mailprogramme erwarten eher mbox-Dateien oder die Export-Formate anderer Mailprogramme um mehrere Mails zu importieren. So auch Mail.app:

Eine sehr praktische Lösung fand ich bei Uwe Hermann, der den entscheidenden Perl-Schnipsel hier auflas und passenderweise mailman2mbox nannte:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 while (<STDIN>) {
   s/^(From:? .*) (at|en) /\1\@/;
   s/^Date: ([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([0-9]+) +([0-9:]+) +([0-9]+)/Date: \1, \3 \2 \5 \4 +0000/; 
   print;
 }

Mit der Befehlsfolge

wget http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/vcs-home/2009-April.txt.gz
gunzip 2009-April.txt
./mailman2mbox < 2009-April.txt > 2009-April.mbox

wäre dann der April 2009 schon in das passende Format gewandelt. Während ich schon einen for-Loop zusammenschraubte, um diesen mit der stupiden Tätigkeit des Imports der gesammelten Archive zu betrauen, überkam mich die Idee, den Import einfach ohne die Umwandlung zu probieren. Und siehe da, lo and behold, Mail.app frisst auch die unbehandelte Version anstandslos und überführt sie in eine lokale Mailbox mit dem Namen der importierten Datei:

Von dort aus habe ich die importierten Mails dann per Drag and Drop in den bereits angelegten vcs-home Ordner verschoben.

Exportieren kann Mail.app übrigens auch ganz gut. Einzelne Mails werden per Drag and Drop auf den Schreibtisch als EML-Dateien gespeichert. Mehrere Mails können über Ablage -> Speichern unter… im oben bereits erwähnten Mbox-Format gesichert werden wenn das Format Reine Datei der E-Mail gewählt wird.

Ziemlich vielseitig für ein Programm das dem Betriebssystem beiliegt…

1. oder vielleicht gerade deswegen… [↩]
2. worth a post on it’s own, check the vcs-home Wiki for a first impression… [↩]
3. Apples Mail.app [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 23. März bis zum 6. April:

• bup – Highly efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format. Capable of doing incremental backups of virtual machine images.
• diskring – is a Mac OS X utility that displays the disk usage through a handy ring chart effect
• Hg Init – a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky including Subversion Re-education
• PeaZip – Open source file and archive manager for Windows and Linux. Flexibe, portable, secure, and free as in freedom
• Getting started with retirement on a sailboat – Maybe some day…
• Snippets – Code Snippet Manager for Mac OS X, $39,95
• Common MySQL Queries – *Lots* of useful MySQL Queries…
• reMail – downloads all your email to your iPhone and searches it instantly.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 2. Februar bis zum 25. Februar:

• Pino – is a Twitter and Identi.ca client for the Linux desktop. It's simple, fast and native.
• Attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail.app – When you send a message, it checks if there's an attachment. If there isn't, and it looks like you've referred to an attachment in the body of your mail (by using a word like attach, attaching, attachment, etc), it gives you a warning. Most of the time, you should never notice that this plugin is running, but in those cases when you do need it….
• Air Video – can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them.
• Amp – is unlike any other VCS software to date. Amp's novel command system gives you the flexibility to customize and personalize the way you develop software.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. Januar bis zum 2. Februar:

• Rocketbox – is a powerful, new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app. $14,95.
• Springer LaTeX Search Beta – lets you search through over 1,096,133 LaTeX code snippets to find the equation you need.
• _why's Estate – Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.
• Autodesk Project Dragonfly – Free Home Design Software – Think the Sims without any Sims…
• Ninite Easy PC Setup – installs software fast with default settings and says "no" to browser toolbars and other junk. runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 19. Januar bis zum 27. Januar:

• A successful Git branching model – Not too different from some SVN-structures I know, but enhanced with all the distributed version control stuff and painless branching and merging of git…
• larch – is a tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another quickly and safely. It’s smart enough not to copy messages that already exist on the destination and robust enough to deal with interruptions caused by flaky connections or misbehaving servers. Larch is particularly well-suited for copying email to, from, or between Gmail accounts.
• imapsync – is a tool for facilitating incremental recursive IMAP transfers from one mailbox to another. It is useful for mailbox migration, and reduces the amount of data transferred by only copying messages that are not present on both servers. Read, unread, and deleted flags are preserved, and the process can be stopped and resumed. The original messages can optionally be deleted after a successful transfer.
• Harry Potter: Top 10 Butterbeer Recipes – Butterbeer. It warms you up, tastes great, and gives you a frothy moustache!

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 4. Januar bis zum 15. Januar:

• MAP, ACT, WAIK, MDT: Windows 7 im Netz verteilen mit Microsoft-Tools – Schöner Überblick über die von Microsoft bereitgestellten Werkzeuge für die Verteilung von und Migration auf Windows 7.
• FOG – is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE.
• understudy – allows access to streaming video through the Front Row interface of Mac OS X. The user can subscribe to multiple feeds, and select a video to watch from them. Understudy currently supports Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and to some degree the BBC iPlayer.
• Software Is Hard –
• GhettoPush – A Perl implementation of IMAP push for the iPhone with generic IMAP servers.
• HFS – Nice looking HTTP-Fileserver for Windows.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 8. September bis zum 14. September:

• On Top Replica – A real-time, always on top, "replica" of a window of your choice, based on DWM Thumbnails.
• Weave – Syncing Engine for Firefox…
• Git: Your New Best Friend – Nice introduction to git on GUI and shell…
• DavMail – is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access.
• RipIt – Simple DVD Ripper for Mac OS X, seems to integrate nicely with handbrake… $19.95…
• Gruml – ermöglicht es Dir, Deine Feed-Abonnements aus Google Reader unter Mac OS X anzusehen und zu verwalten.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 23. Juli bis zum 5. August:

• App Store Expense Monitor – Berechnet wieviel für iPhone-Apps aus dem App Store ausgegeben wurde
• Outlook-QuoteFix – can modify MS Outlook's message composition windows on-the-fly to allow for correct quoting and to change the appearance of your plain-text replies and forwards in general: move your signature, use compressed indentation, customize your quote header, etc.
• iFlicks – Using iFlicks you can easily import your Video Collection into iTunes. This gives you the ability to watch your Videos directly in iTunes or transfer them to your iPod or iPhone. On top of that iFlicks downloads Metadata for your Videos and lets you tweak the Metadata manually.
• ColorBox – A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3
• RubyFrontier Documentation – It’s a way of maintaining and generating Web sites. It imitates UserLand Frontier, but it’s written in Ruby.
• Pro Git Book – The whole Pro Git book online.
• Glims – adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead …)
• Jack OS X – is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.
• StudioTwentyEight | Wallpapers – Great wallpapers, often available in dual and triple versions…

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 17. Juni bis zum 2. Juli:

• Anonymous Pro – is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
• HTTP Client – A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.
• nullmailer – is a minimal MTA that provides mail delivery services to programs in a host that otherwise does not require a full MTA like Exim or Postfix.
• Fever – Very stylish feedreader to be hosted on own server. $30,00
• Mobile Wiki Server – This mobile Wiki server is a fully functional Wiki hosted on your iPhone, or iPod touch
• wordpress-geo-mashup – Make WordPress into a GeoCMS. Include Google maps in posts and pages, and map posts and pages on global maps.
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis und Glossar zusammen mit LaTeX –
• Extensive WordPress 2.8 Getting Started Guide – Essential reading.
• The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes –
• moblin.org – Netbook centric Linux distri by Intel…