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Vacuuming your Mail.app
by daven on Mar.11, 2008, under Quick Tips, links
Want to speed up and improve the performance of Mail.app on your Mac? Just Vacuum it up and watch it fly
http://gracefulflavor.net/2007/03/16/simple-trick-speeds-up-mailapp-considerably/
Using a Blackberry Pearl as a bluetooth modem for a Macbook
by daven on May.03, 2007, under General System Administration, links
http://www.fibble.org/archives/000508.html
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/blackberry_pearl_as_bluetooth_modem_with_mac.html
It’s pretty cool for connectivity on the go without having to carry anything extra ,beside the macbook of course, when you can’t find a hotspot.
I may be the last person on the planet but
by daven on Apr.26, 2007, under Life in General, links
I may be the last person on the planet to have come across this song, but after hearing in on the Net@Nite podcast while driving home (yes I realize it was recorded 2 months ago, I am still catching up!) . I thought it was so freaking funny and catchy the first thing I did when I got home was to purchase it on iTunes. Now looking at his homepage maybe I should have gone there first to get a DRM free version and probably route more of the cash his way.
Now how to get it to start blaring on the slim server at just the right time……
Data Center Automation
by daven on Apr.26, 2007, under Automation, General System Administration, links
Cool vision for Data Center Automation using Virtual Machine’s to automagically adjust services to properly distribute load ensuring a minimal waste of CPU resourceshttp://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/data_center_automation.html.
Sounds like they have some pretty smart people over there at Novell work on some pretty cool stuff.