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Mail tips

For my future reference. Taken from hawkwings.net

Get a considerable speed increase in Mail.app (and if you’re lucky, a smaller mailbox size as well) by performing certain Terminal commands.

  1. Quit Mail.app
  2. fire up Terminal
  3. Do/type the following:
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit

If for some reason the single line method won’t work, then do the following instead

$ cd ~/Library/Mail $ sqlite3 Envelope\ Index sqlite> vacuum subjects;

  1. Press Control-D to exit Terminal.

In case you didn’t know, the $ is your shell. Again Mail.app should NOT be running when you do this! 1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out. It’s also good practice to back up your ~/Library/Mail folder just in case. You have been warned

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⇡1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out.
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What the!?

Aside from the model name, cosmetics and bundled software, can someone clue me in what the difference is between these two:

The first is my Keystation 49e, and the second is one of the new releases M-Audio has for NAMM ’07. They’re the same right? Even the pricepoint is the same for crying out loud. I fail to see the point of such a product. Why not just do it like Apple 1 Who perform major upgrades to their hardware/existing products while still retaining the model/line name and still call it a 49e?

I do like the darker color (gunmetal?) on the new unit though 🙂

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⇡1 Who perform major upgrades to their hardware/existing products while still retaining the model/line name
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Evolution: the picture post

Looking back at my life, it’s quite amusing how my [computer] setup has evolved over time. I recall the days when I was only using a plain vanilla PC with a graphics card just enough to play games at their lowest settings, a 15″ CRT monitor, etc. etc. – I guess it just shows how much of a geek I am.

Getting my first job after college, Nono and I (or was it just only me) cashed in our computer loans and I got a relatively good computer, of course still with the beige chassis, but at least with a whopping 17″ (which was big at that time). Of course along the course of my life, I was given the opportunity to save up (whether from jobs or rackets) and finally indulge in some personal “luxuries.”

I’ve been posting pictures of the new stuff in my Gallery and Flickr accounts, but really had no chance to “talk” about them – so I guess this post would be the perfect opportunity to do so.

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Keep it up Steve, and you’ll lose your fans

Mr. Jobs’ words about opening up Mobile OS X to 3rd-party developers:

You don’t want your phone to be an open platform, you need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.

First of all, assuming the techincal implications of this are true (because they simply aren’t), whose fucking bone-headed idea was it to tie the phone up specifically to Cingular in the first place? The only feature I can see that is directly tied to Cingular’s network would be the visual voice-mail feature – unless another bone-headed decision was made to even use Cingular’s network for connecting to the internet as a whole (which is highly unlikely).

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