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The university where I study has decided to switch from it’s own mail system to e-GO, more oftenly referenced to as Google Apps. Although the full (forced) migration won’t take place until october, you can choose to migrate now. However the migration isn’t fully automated, your old emails won’t be imported to the new system automatically. Therefore I decided to describe how I did to migrate.

First log in to the student portal. Then use the menu to go to Settings >> e-GO. Set a password and then click the activation button.
Before you start with the next part make sure that your account is activated.

Now that your account is activated the next (and final) task is to import all your old emails. For this you’ll need two things: an email client that supports imap/pop3, and can export messages to mbox format, and Google GMail Loader (GML). I used evolution for the mail client. As for GML, if you’re on linux you can probably find it in your package mangager, and if you’re on windows just download the binary from the site.
Now you have to export all the mails. In evolution this is done by selecting all the mails in a folder, right-clicking on them and selecting “Save as…”. When you’ve saved all your folders fire up GML.
Now you need setup GML before you import your messages. Start with setting the SMTP server to one listed here [Link removed - nobody should need this any more]. Then set the your email address to [you]@migrate.student.liu.se. DO NOT set “Message Type” to “Mail I sent”, because if you do those mails will be shown as sent by [you]@migrate.student.liu.se and not [you]@student.liu.se, and will therefore not show up in Sent Mail.
Lastly set the email file to one of those that you exported earlier and press “Send To GMail”. Wait, and then repeat for each of the files that you exported.
When done you can log in to e-GO and verify that you’ve got all the mails, and don’t worry if there’s a few less then you uploaded, this is because of GMail’s “converstation” feature.

There are some downsides with this method:
1. The timestamps of the mails will be set to the time when you uploaded them.
2. Sent mails will show upp in both Sent mail and Inbox.

At least to me those are minor issues, that you can live with.

http://ryara.net has got a new fresh dark on light design, and also a long needed resize of the logo (it’s smaller now). And thanks to the robust skeleton I used when I first wrote the site it wasn’t that much work. The main reason for the redesign was to get a working system for adding projects to the site, so in the following weeks I’ll add some projects to the site

Here’s a riddle i found somewhere:

There’s a club. Anyone can join the club.
If they can answer the doormans question.
A man who wants to join stands near the door and listens to the doorman.
A member walks up to the doorman and the doorman says,
“Twelve.”
The member replies, “Six.”
The doorman lets him in.
Another member walks up to the doorman. The doorman says,
“Six.”
The member replies, “Three.”
Feeling confident, the man wanting to join walks up to the doorman.
The doorman says, “Ten.”
The non-member replies, “Five.”
The doorman tells him to leave.
Why?

I haven’t figured out the answer myself yet - but I hope I eventually do. Meanwhile, you may comment if you have a hint of some sort or think you’ve got the answer .

THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

Not long ago I when I was iritated because µtorrent’s UPnP port mapping wasn’t working when Hamachi is installed, I got an idea - which probably is stupid or crazy for one reason or another, but whatever. The idea is that instead of letting applications themselves communicate via the network interfaces themselves, a “unified” one could be provided, instead they speak with “unified interface” which then decides the best route for the packages (the “nearest” or fastest one). It would also make switching from one network interface to another - if you for example want to go from wireless to wired while still keeping all your connections alive. This would also make the local ip to always be the same, seen from applications, which I believe could be a good thing.
This is (in at least some ways) similiar to using a VPN, but without some of the drawbacks (though with some others instead, I guess).
So, at the moment, this seems like a good idea to me - but it could just as well be the opposite.

I recently got a comment on a post I wrote quite a while ago. It was from someone who had though about the same thing, and decided to make a whole site about it. While I do not believe that their effort will make a very big difference (at least not enough to do very much about it), I think it is a good thought (and initiative). So, I can at least write about it and hope that someone who would believe enough in it reads it and tries to do something about it.

Lately in sweden there’s been quite much talk about Scandic’s decision, for example: one[1], two[2].
I must say I can’t fully agree with either one’s view of the issue. Skytte is mostly wrong; first I can’t see why he does not accept that people acctually can feel insulted because there’s a bible in their hotel room. On the other hand I myself can’t understand why one would be insulted because of it - after all it’s merely a book, a fictional one. Secondly I do not see why he should have a right to decide what Scandic should do - they’re a company, and as such can do as they wish, they have all rights to decide what should be in their hotel rooms. Also, they have probably also counted with the probable reduction in guests due to the change, as they’re profit driven. As for buissnessmen which he names as an example, I’d guess aren’t chosing where to live themselves when travelling, but by their companies. Lastly, I’ve personally not seen the daily insults directed against christianity which he mentions.
Even though I am an humanist, and a atheist (though I must admit I’m more of an agnostic), I can not say I agree with what Sturmark writes, most of it is total rubbish… But in the last paragraph he makes a very good point: he proposes to provide a small library in the reception of the hotels’ which has a collection of a variety of books, both religious and non-religious ones. This, I think, should be a solution that works for both christians, atheists and others.

So, today has been the most productive day since quite a long time for me. First I suceeded in upgrading wordpress to the newest version - before I was running 2.0.2, now it’s 2.1.2. And contrary to what one could believe it worked without any problems at all .

And when I was at it I also installed a quotes plugin (mildly inspired by ozamosi, admittedly), so now I’ve use for some of the quotes I’ve collected.

I’ve also started writing a minimalistic image viewer for windows, originally inspired by feh, and should do only one thing - view images, so no useless features. (But if someone knows about an image viewer for windows that does what feh does but loads images from the entire directory it’s launched in instead of only the files specified I’d be glad to hear about it - there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel ).

It’s all about information.
Streamlining the consumption and personal incorporation of information.

Where will it all end?

Yesterday I watched a pretty interesting movie, The god who wasn’t there, and I really do recommend it. It takes up many interesting facts, most of them about Jesus, gives quite a few reasons as to why christianity is wrong.
Now I’m neither for nor against a god, but I’m certainly against one like the christian one.
But anyway, as I said I really recommend it. Yet remember when you watch it to think for yourself, as always.