Software

InCrease

Dan A. sent me an email in response to the my post about how I wished that the Folding@Home client automatically suspended the client when my Mac Book Pro is on battery power.  He sent a link to InCrease.

InCrease is a Mac OS X GUI for configuring an running the Folding@Home command line client.  In addition to the standard settings, you can have the client automatically pause when the laptop goes on battery power, and you can monitor remote clients.

Unfortunately, I have not gotten this to work for me.  Every time that I attempt to start the clients, I get the following status:

Starting...

Unit at ~/Library/Folding@home:
  cannot start: isWritable YES, hasClient YES, isStopped YES, isLocal YES, owner F@H

I will try a play with this some more to get it to work.

Small servers

These are some pretty cool computers that would be perfect for small servers in your house.  Both of these computers are pretty small, and use a small amount of electricity.

The "fit-PC" is a small Linux computer that has a 500Mhz AMD Geode processor with 256MB RAM and 52MB flash.  It also has a 40GB hard drive (I assume a 2.5" drive), USB, serial, audio ports, and a SXGA graphics controller.

I wonder if it would be possible to install everything on flash, and not use the drive.  The cool thing about this product is that you should be able to install any software that you want on it.

The Square One Personal Internet Server is a server has the following functionality:

• Network Attached Storage
• Broadband router
• Print server
• Web server

I have some questions about this product.

1. Does the print server use CUPS?
2. Does the print server have a postscript renderer?
3. How easy is it to build and install upgraded software, or what is commitment to releasing updated packages for security issues?

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links for 2007-07-24

• How To Add Good Expires Headers to Images in Apache 1.3 (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  (tags: performance apache httpd Expires headers http mod_expires)

Web based email

I decided to switch to using the web interface for mail, exclusively.  This was working fine without me having to do anything, but I didn't have access to my archive of old mail.  So I decided to copy all of my old mail so I would easily be able to search through it.

The steps weren't exactly straight forward, but this is what worked for me:

1. Created a Smart Mailbox that contained all of the mail sent or received before I started using Google Apps.
2. Saved the messages into a single mbox
3. Send the messages with GMail Loader.

There was one issue that I encountered was that I tried to have the messages sent through my hosting provider.  It has a 1000 daily outbound smtp limit.  So it took about 6 days for all of the messages to be received.  (I should have read the documentation for GMail Loader, and there are instructions to avoid this problem.)

links for 2007-07-22

• Hybrids Plus - home
  A company that converts hybrids to plug-in hybrids
  (tags: electricity hybrid toyota prius energy)