Migrating from LiU mail to e-GO

Posted on May 28, 2007 by tobbez

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.

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Site redesign

Posted on May 24, 2007 by tobbez

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 ;)

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Riddle

Posted on April 24, 2007 by tobbez

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 ;) .

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The algorithm

Posted on April 20, 2007 by tobbez

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

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Making poverty and wealth history (follow up)

Posted on April 17, 2007 by tobbez

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.

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Is there really a choice?

Posted on July 27, 2006 by tobbez

Me – “I’ve got to much to do, today I have to [long list of things].”
Friend -”No, you don’t have to, there’s always a choice.”

The conversation above is where it all started. After it I’ve thought quite a lot about it and come to some conclusions about it: First: You always have a choice, Second: You never have a choice. As this might be a bit confusing, so let’s bring some clarity to it shall we.

You always have a choice
Usually when you say “I have to…”, it’s most oftenly about something trivial as for example completing and handing in a homework, or buying food, We all know that we don’t really need to do these things, but the consequences of not doing it is bad for us (I.E. You get bad grades, or you have to starve). But as I said, we all know this, so let’s take another example.
Scenario: You are totally paralyzed and you know that in just one minute you will die; nothing can prevent it or change it in any way. Do you still have a choice then? Yes, because you can still decide what to think, and how to feel about dying.
You always have a choice because your mind is always your mind, and within it you have full control (wheater you use it or not).

You never have a choice
This is all based on predestination. If you know the state of everything, absolutely everything at one moment, you would be able to predict how the next one would be from what you know. Applied to your mind this means that every choice you make is made based on a number of facts which are predictable, and therefore your choice is too. But don’t forget to take this knowledge into account when making your presumed choices, as it also affects your actions. So you can’t say “Let’s [Some stupid action, e.g. something criminal]” because you would have done it anyway.
So because everything’s dependency on everything else: You never have a choice.

What it all comes down to
Sadly enough we never have a choice, however, most people never notice this because of the “illusion of choice” that they live in, an illusion even I live in most of the time.
So, Do we have a Choice? Yes and No, yet Neither.

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First entry, yay!

Posted on April 26, 2006 by tobbez

Well, now that I got all this set up I should probably write something too, and not only for that reason…

Anyways theres not much to get all worked up for today, not much different from any other day. Except some small things of course ;). For example I happend to stumble over a post by someone who is working on making a StarCraft “clone” (using Blizzards resources) in C# (mono). Pretty interesting I say. From the screencaps it looks quite nice, but sadly I haven’t got the build he provided working in windows, so I haven’t been able to see myself how it looks like. Take a look here if you’re interested.
And let’s hope Blizzard doesn’t close down the project ;).

Talking of Blizzard; I’m trying to start playing WoW actively again, and maybe get my shaman up to level 60. Hopefully I will last long enough this time to do it, instead of doing other things (nothing, anyone?). Oh well…

And to those who read all this; I hope you got something out from reading it, and hopefully any coming entries will have some more content than this one ;)

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Consuming for a better world?

Posted on October 15, 2005 by tobbez

Note: This was originally posted on my old blog, http://tobbez.blogspot.com/, which I don’t use anymore since I wanted to keep everything in one place.
Quite recently I read something about an American that had been to Europe and while he was there said he thought the Europeans didn’t consume enough. Reading about that made me start thinking.

Why should the world get any better just because we start consuming more and more? Unfortunately it seems like a great part of humanity thinks so (or maybe it’s only the politicians?). At least it seems so because how well it’s going for a country is measured by how much it’s inhabitants are consuming. Instead of this I think we should aim on consuming less to make the earth’s resources last longer.

The main reason for wanting the consumption to increase is probably because of the big corporations that want to earn much money, which depends on how society is built up. It’s built so that people have to compete, but it should be much better to have a society where everyone cooperated.

And finally, let’s finish with a saying:
The higher you get, the harder you’ll fall.

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