• Bip – is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection.
• KNC – is Kerberised NetCat. It works in basically the same way as either netcat or stunnel except that it is Kerberised. You can use it to construct client/server applications while keeping the Kerberos libraries out of your programs address space quickly and easily.
• glark – A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions, and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
• runiq – functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters.
• TrID – is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded logic, TrID has no fixed rules. Instead, it's extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way.
• DropIt – A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
• droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
• Markdown QuickTags – is a plugin for WordPress which replaces the HTML editor with a Markdown-enabled set of buttons and features.
• DIY Star Wars Snowflakes – Paper-snowflakes going Star Wars
• Melo – Very cool looking last.fm client for Mac OS X

• RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines – This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use.
• Celerity – is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications.
• cucumber-nagios – lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format
• Traverso – Is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music
• VimGolf – Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke – do you?
• Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line – Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
• Free e-books for Windows administrators – This is a list of free e-books that are useful for Windows administrators. It will be regularly updated.
• Review Board – is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
• Shelf – is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.
• NanoCount – is a little utility for MacOS X. It provides a word count feature for TextEdit, OS X's built-in word processor.

• 10 Things You Did Not Know About Monkey Island –
• Briefe erstellen in Latex –
• byobu – includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.
• Window Shifter Home – is a tool which allows you to move applications between networked computers of different OS. It works through some really sophisticated ssh and vnc magic…
• gitolite – allows you to setup a centralised git server, with very fine-grained access control and many (many!) more powerful features.
• Vimprobable – is a WWW browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine (using GTK bindings).
• Kaleidoscope – Advanced diff-App for Mac OS X. Compares Textfiles, Code and Images. Also: Shiny. Shareware, 29,00 €

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

• Localghost – makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.
• FitNesse – The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework.
• cdf – colorized df with friendly capacity bars. Written in pure C without any external dependencies
• Droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
• Tagr – is an application for Mac OS X that helps you organize your MP3 / M4A (MP4) collection.
• easymac.sh – is a shellscript which generates global, VMware or Xen MAC-addresses
• MTR – combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• calibre – is a free and open source e-book library management application
• How To Make German Pancakes, Dutch Baby Pancakes – Bring this spectacular breakfast or brunch dish to the table as soon as it comes out of the oven for a lot of oohs and aahs! <br /> A German Pancake is a cross between a soufflé and an omelet – it is a light, airy pancake with sides.
• Immer im Dienst – Artikel über eine Nagios-Erweiterung zur Überwachung von SLA-Bedingungen. Recht alt und rudimentär…

• 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!

• 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.

• Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 –
• Geek And Poke: Let The Clouds Make Your Life Easier –
• Anmerkungen zu Cloud Computing « Sprechblase –
• mittelstandswissen.de – Cloud Computing –
• Technology Review – Auf Web-Wolke Sieben? –
• CeBIT special – Deutsche Bank Research: "IT ist nicht grün und wird es niemals sein" –
• iX – Green IT soll hauptsächlich Kosten und Energie sparen –
• Cloud Computing: Deutsche Anwender sind noch skeptisch – computerwoche.de –
• heise online – Ein Platz auf der Wolke –
• Data Warehousing in the Clouds – Making Sense of the Cloud Computing Market
• Gartner Says Cloud Application Infrastructure Technologies Need Seven Years to Mature –
• regexxer – is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

• PixelStick – is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen.
• Backblaze – Unlimited encrypted online-backup for Mac OS X and Windows. 5 $ per Computer, can use your own private key. Interesting…
• ExifTool – is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.
• 10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress – Good tips, easy to apply…
• LaTeX auf dem Mac – Digitales Grundrauschen #12 – 2 Stunden Podcast über LaTeX, Seite mit tollen Links zum Thema…

• ack – better than grep, a power search tool for programmers
• Snake Wrangling for Kids – is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.
• Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes –
• Lab Tick – Complete control over backlit Keyboards
• gittorrent – The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet.