Mohtalim

So, how have people gone/will go about moving stuff from AFS?

I've debated on dumping all my mail into a large text file, tar'ing it, and grabbing it, but I'm fairly certain there has to be a better way.

Hmm... this also means I have to organize all my course files too, argh.

setup your favor email client, login and download all you mail into it?

and zip the rest and burn them to cd?

I didn't remember to save anything ...

Meaning I'll need to reinstall cygwin and pine, or actually install debian?

Sadly though, I think I'm getting used to outlook, so I guess I could go with that (at least it's MUCH better than Lotus Notes, which I was forced to use last summer)

So it sounds like you are interested in two things:

1. archiving your saved mail in a mailbox format of one kind or another, preferably one that is compatible with your current mail client
2. archiving your data

When I grabbed my stuff from Andrew and ECE, I eventually determined that I didn't care enough about my mail archives to perserve them. I looked into running some kind of IMAP-snarfing program that would connect to the IMAP server and download all the mail, but I never actually produced anything. For backups, I simply did "scp -r" and declared myself done.

Unfortunately, I reformatted the damn drive later and never made any CD backups, but that's another story.

VLSmooth wrote:Meaning I'll need to reinstall cygwin and pine, or actually install debian?

Sadly though, I think I'm getting used to outlook, so I guess I could go with that (at least it's MUCH better than Lotus Notes, which I was forced to use last summer)

No. Wrong answer. Outlook is slower and less secure than every mail client in existence. Outlook Express is a chump program.

Try Mozilla Mail. I've been very pleased. Plus, it's cross platform, for when you install Debian later.

The real way, the man's way to do this can be expressed succinctly as Net::IMAP::Simple.

Dwindlehop wrote:The real way, the man's way to do this can be expressed succinctly as Net::IMAP::Simple.

Woah, now you're speaking vinny's language. PERL!!!!!!!

This reminds me of yesterday when Pei asked me how to selectively copy files in a directory structure while preserving the directory structure in the destination. Of course, since it was Pei, he asked other people too including vinny. Vinny busts out perl code when all you really need is "find"

*sigh*

I can reduce every perl program Vinny writes to a one line Unix command!

Can I put a character limit on the length of that command's options? Actually, isn't there already a limit to the lenght a command can be to protect against buffer overflow attacks on the shell?

There's a limit on the number of arguments you can pass. There doesn't seem to be any limit on the length of a command.

Take that back. The kernel defines a number of pages available to incoming commands. Usual number is 32, or 128 KB.

on my system i hit the limit well before that. i can execute a couple of screens' worth of "true |" before it dies. i think that i'm hitting a limit in the number of pipes, not the command line length.

a screen's worth of "true 01001..." dies with "Word too long".

So the trick is to combine the maximum number of pipes, maximum number of arguments, and maximum length of each argument to create the world's longest command line, and then post it on the web. Good luck.

this is like solving for 3 stats problem?

Peijen wrote:this is like solving for 3 stats problem?

huh?

i think it's spelled 'stats'. something about proving if a problem is np ...

quantus wrote:

Dwindlehop wrote:The real way, the man's way to do this can be expressed succinctly as Net::IMAP::Simple.

Woah, now you're speaking vinny's language. PERL!!!!!!!

This reminds me of yesterday when Pei asked me how to selectively copy files in a directory structure while preserving the directory structure in the destination. Of course, since it was Pei, he asked other people too including vinny. Vinny busts out perl code when all you really need is "find"

*sigh*

I did use find, I didn't want to confuse pei with -exec...

Besides, with debugging and test info it was ~6 lines written in <1 minute.

Dwindlehop wrote:I can reduce every perl program Vinny writes to a one line Unix command!

Yep, since I do hate multi-line filenames (*cough*by running my script*cough*)

Peijen wrote:i think it's spelled 'stats'. something about proving if a problem is np ...

I think you mean the 3-SAT problem (Satisfiability)