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At my work for security reasons we access some of internal services (eg. irc chat server) via ssh tunnel. Generally, setting up an ssh tunnel (a.k.a. secure port forward) on any UNIX type system having openssh client takes one simple command:

$ ssh -L 6667:localhost:6667 user@server

and entering a system password.

However, I like to close my MacBooks’ lid occasionally or reboot the Book and I really hate (and forget) to reconnect the tunnel every time connection breaks or Book is restarted so encouraged by a colleague, I decided to do something about it. The result is – few simple steps and the tunnel is available permanently. Continue reading →

While reading Adam’s article about duplicates in iTunes library, I decided to mess around a little with in my own library. Those who are following my blog most probably know that I’ve switched to Mac recently (personal friends also know I’ve changed my MacBook to MBP just few months ago) so had some hassles moving files back and forth. Skimming through iTunes library duff did not discover big mysteries, I really had only few (19 out of 2691 to be precise) duplicates.

But, then I decided to check my whole home folder (duff -r ~). Here are my stats:

• 3651 files having at least one duplicate
• 2903 files having 1 duplicate
• 335 files with 2 duplicates
• 154 files w/ 3 duplicates
• 23 files w/ 4 duplicates
• others are more system-wide duplicates for internal needs and can be ignored

What a mess!!! Time for clean-up.

Half of a year has passed since I started working with Mac OS X and for half a year I have never tried to actually adapt myself to Mail.app. Thing that hit me at first sight was a lack of extensibility via add-ons so I switched it off right after I noticed “add-ons” is not there.

However, once my fiancee moved to Mac, she decided to exchange The Bat! for Mail.app. Although it took a while, export/import from The Bat! to Mail.app went pretty smoothly. Furthermore, on the way of the transfer I had to search for some extensions (e.g. to remove duplicate messages etc) so at this point I found that extensibility of Mail.app is indeed available. And it is available so widely that I have switched to Mail.app myself. And I am a happy Mail.app user now.

For those considering the move, here’s the incomplete list of available Mail.app extensions:

http://www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm

As for me, I’m pretty happy with these plugins:

• GrowlMail
• GPGMail
• MailTags
• Mail Scripts

I’m processing a decent email pipeline so sqlite backend really plays it’s role and performance is much better.

Note for Thunderbird users moving to Mail.app, export/import between those applications was not that smooth. I had to run a script against Thunderbird profile folder before ALL messages were imported successfully. It’s available here.

Have a good Mail.app!