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Re: Homebrew Package Update Notifications via Growl

secondplanet — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:19:23 -0000

I wrote a similar Homebrew extension for when a formula is finished installing: https://github.com/secondplane...

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

D7000 Nikon Review — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:40:33 -0000

Hello there, I found your blog via Google while looking for a similar matter, your web site got here up, it looks good. I've bookmarked it in my google bookmarks.

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Jarno Rantanen — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:14:48 -0000

Thanks a lot for a quality post! This got me right on the way for setting up my own local backup of my (non-gmail) IMAP account.

You might want to update the info about fetching local copies of the certs though; as Brandon Hall pointed out it's not actually necessary.

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Mike Smullin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:27:31 -0000

Thunderbird 3 does this really well. Just add your IMAP account. The default under Storage for each account is to download all content and cache locally forever. Then go to File > Offline > Download & Sync and it will go through all your accounts and all folders and download them to the local cache. Then you can go into Work Offline mode and read all your email to verify its all there.

Then as you use Thunderbird its updating its cache, but you can always force a fresh sync with above steps.

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

KeithS — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:08:19 -0000

Thanks for this! Your patch worked perfectly against the isync-1.0.4 package available for download from Sourceforge. With a little tweaking to set up the configuration file the way I like it, it's synchronizing nicely.

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Muc — Sun, 22 May 2011 15:22:42 -0000

Great post! Thank you very much. Just followed the steps and worked like a charm :)

I had a little trouble, for I'm using linux mint Julia, which apparently doesn't include any sources source (no deb sources in sources.list), so I had to manually download the sources for mbsync, but other than that, very straightforward.

Re: Aperture Performance Problems

Oferty Pracy Sandomierz — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:56:06 -0000

I appreciate, cause I found exactly what I was looking for. You have ended my 4 day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

ehznewehznew — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:02:23 -0000

I'm not scared at all.

Aperture sucks!

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Craig Betts — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:38:53 -0000

With the big scare that hit Google today with a mass of missing emails, I was able to use your setup with no hiccups! Apparently mbsync didn't need the patch for the recursive directories. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and loaded the isync package as is.

Thank

Re: Facebook Exporter for Aperture

m3kw — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:02:57 -0000

Yo, you can set the order by going to the facebook section in aperture. Then near the top, just above version name, click on the drop down and sort it by DATE or anything you want.

After that click on the "sync" icon next to the facebook album name in aperture. Then refresh you facebook page!! Viola!! You owe me a beer!

Re: MacPort Package Update Notifications via Growl

Andrew Davidson — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:08:55 -0000

I like homebrew's use of /usr/local.

It makes things a little easier when developing scripts for my VPS on my local machine.

Re: MacPort Package Update Notifications via Growl

Streeter — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:54:40 -0000

Andrew, what made you choose Homebrew over MacPorts?

Re: MacPort Package Update Notifications via Growl

Andrew Davidson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:36:03 -0000

Great idea. I've been using Homebrew rather than MacPorts but I plan to fork and modify this as soon as I get back to my machine

Re: Watching a Kecak Dance

Amer — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:51:04 -0000

wow..I have to agree with Catherine - your photos are really nice! Loved the kecak dance aswell and would definitely recommend to anyone going to Bali.

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

steve — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:40:29 -0000

great insights. i'll probably wait until the d700 refresh is announced so i can have a more accurate comparison of pricing (either with the refresh or the new price point for the d700). everything i've read seems to point to the d7000 as a superb high iso performer, which would be great for indoor shots without flash. the prices of the fx lenses is definitely intimidating. avoiding the 1.5x DX crop factor is intriguing.

no real photo blog but i do have a gallery of sorts.
http://stevechou.smugmug.com/

pretty out of date but i'm without a camera for now. hope you had a great holiday season!

Re: Looking Back on 2010

Joan Griffin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:58:13 -0000

I enjoyed your first retrospective and look forward to more of your writing.

Re: Looking Back on 2010

Jim Harbaugh — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:53:09 -0000

Chris - you forgot to mention the fun you had at the 2010 BIG GAME. While the company was fantastic, the outcome of the game was even better:

Stanford - 48
Cal -14

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,
Jim Harbaugh

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

Streeter — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:07:47 -0000

So far, the only complaint with the D7000 I have is that it doesn't have a way to trigger remotely and take multiple shots, like what most cameras offer with the timer interface (wait 10 seconds, take X number of pictures). Why can't I do that with the remote? I've done some shooting indoors without flash, and the clean high ISO definitely makes shooting indoors without a flash easy and nice. If you're looking at the D700, and thus full frame, people are expecting it to be replaced in 2011. You also have to consider the investment FX lenses costs as well too.

Do you run a photoblog of any sort? Where do you put your pictures at?

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

steve — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:04:50 -0000

hey chris!
great website and fantastic photos. seems like your pretty pleased with your d7000. any complaints? how does it handle indoors without flash? i'm in the market for a new dslr and am also debating between the d7000 or moving to a d700. keep up the great photography!

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Philipp — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:20:34 -0000

Hello Pete,
as you refered to my blog post, I want to inform you that my blog moved. The post is now online at the new address:

http://blog.philippklaus.de/20...

Hope it is of some use.
Philipp

Re: GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

remke — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:25:56 -0000

I have installed isync using ubuntu 10.10:
A)
sudo aptitude search libdb-dev
-> sudo aptitude install libdb-dev
B)
sudo aptitude search libssl
-> sudo aptitude install libssl-dev
C)
sudo apt-get source isync

wget http://www.chrisstreeter.com/w...
tar -xvf isync_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
cd isync-1.0.4/
sudo patch -p1 < ../recursive_imap_ubuntu.patch
D)
sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install
E)
sudo mkdir -p /export/backups/mail

(my user is member of the group users ...); you need an writable location for the user performing the gmail backup !
sudo chown -R :users /export/backups

sudo chmod g+s /export/backups/mail/

...
continue with step (5)
:) ~remke

Re: Facebook Exporter for Aperture

Streeter — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:58:53 -0000

No, that data isn't available to developers. It looks like only Apple has that information, though it doesn't work that great...

Re: Facebook Exporter for Aperture

Dean Eckles — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:53:30 -0000

Does it try to do anything with the Faces data? Or is that not really available to developers? (I don't recall exactly what we concluded before...)

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

Streeter — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:03:23 -0000

Rohit, I didn't consider switching to an FX body yet. There are a couple reasons for it at this point. I like the smaller body the DX gives me. I'm not ready to lug around a big ass, heavy body like the D700 yet. Second, those lenses are expensive! I do have an f/1.8 50mm prime, which is an inexpensive lens, I'm not ready to plop down that much for FX lenses. Yes, it is sharper and should have better high ISO performance, but the D7000 is a huge step in the right direction. I like being able to stow my camera and lens in a bag when hiking and traveling. While doing both those, I'd rather be worried about a $1200 body than a $3000 body, which doesn't even include whatever lenses I happen to have with me. And since this is still just a hobby for me (I'd love to travel and hike, take pictures and then get paid for it...), a full frame with the associated lenses just doesn't make sense.

Right now, the D7000 is what you'd want to upgrade to. It is 3 body generations newer than your D70, and two sensor generations newer. So you'll notice a different immediately. The only current problem is getting one in a timely manner. They are backordered for months right now and are marked up a ton on Craigslist / eBay / Amazon used. Your best shot would be to find a local dealer who just got a shipment in.

If you do decide to go full frame, there is rumored to be a D700 (the low end FX Nikon body) replacement in the next 5-6 months, which would be worth waiting for if you can. Definitely let me know what choice you go with.

Re: Wide Angle Lenses for Nikon Bodies

enzhewenhezenwe — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:26:29 -0000

oh hay guess who else has the sigmama.

Watch out for barrel distortion at wide eng. And funky polarizer effects at < 12mm.