How about for now I just make one big searchable file (Mail.app exports the mailbox as one huge text file), accessible through PYFFLE::?
Basically, it'll run 'less' and you can scroll the mails and search them etc.
That could be up in 20 mins :) Then I'll start thinking about a proper way to do it.
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +358 40 7208932
On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:14, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-10-12 17:11, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I just realised that I've pretty much NEVER deleted any message from this list, and my Mail client says I have about 12,000 of them since dated back to March 2008.
You guys think it might be an idea to export these in some format and make them searchable? Can I say put 12,000 text files on CHIMPY and let people use the SEARCH command to look for specific keywords (i.e. will the performance be reasonable)?
Alternatively, I suppose I could build some quick web app for browsing/searching the mails (authenticated of course, don't want the whole world to see our list).
Any ideas?
It's something similar that I had in mind to do at some point. My only "problem" is that I also keep some "private" mails related to HECnet in the same folder, so I should sort that out. I have something close to 16.000 mails in my archive.
I think it would be nice if you did something, but I have no clear idea how it should be done.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
On 2013-10-12 17:11, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I just realised that I've pretty much NEVER deleted any message from this list, and my Mail client says I have about 12,000 of them since dated back to March 2008.
You guys think it might be an idea to export these in some format and make them searchable? Can I say put 12,000 text files on CHIMPY and let people use the SEARCH command to look for specific keywords (i.e. will the performance be reasonable)?
Alternatively, I suppose I could build some quick web app for browsing/searching the mails (authenticated of course, don't want the whole world to see our list).
Any ideas?
It's something similar that I had in mind to do at some point. My only "problem" is that I also keep some "private" mails related to HECnet in the same folder, so I should sort that out. I have something close to 16.000 mails in my archive.
I think it would be nice if you did something, but I have no clear idea how it should be done.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Guys,
I just realised that I've pretty much NEVER deleted any message from this list, and my Mail client says I have about 12,000 of them since dated back to March 2008.
You guys think it might be an idea to export these in some format and make them searchable? Can I say put 12,000 text files on CHIMPY and let people use the SEARCH command to look for specific keywords (i.e. will the performance be reasonable)?
Alternatively, I suppose I could build some quick web app for browsing/searching the mails (authenticated of course, don't want the whole world to see our list).
Any ideas?
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +358 40 7208932
Basically my network in Hila's Internet connection is a HSUPA cellular router (relatively fast 15/6mbps or so) but the operator does not give me a static IP.
So I decided to VPN into my network in London, assign each VPN account a specific static IP and run the bridge over the VPN.
It's been working great for about a year now - so anybody who needs a bridge connection and can run pppd is welcome to link up with me.
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +358 40 7208932
it was left over from a silliness when IBM wrote the bios roms on the AT. they packed h:c:s codes in two 16 bit integers. in thoses days
a 5.25 st-506 drive maxed out at 20M.
dec is using 19" SMD technology that are maxing in 500M range at the same time.
PC technology used to take lots of short cuts like that and the folks were proud of it because they had not experienced anything like dec or the mainframe for that matter
remember the 8" floppy was invented by IBM as a way to store and load the microcode on the original Winchester (aka 3030) disk
the PC guys take it and use it as a storage device.
On Oct 11, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Why did the early PeeCees wear 528 Megabyte drives as their largest
drives? (This despite the fact that to use it, the early operating
systems would also be size confused.) The BIOS the computers wear was
problematic.
In this case Cory is right, lack of determination. Plus other things.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/11/2013 02:13 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well
in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
Which is great, but again you run in to the snag that I've never seen a
SATA disk smaller than 40GB and the upper size limit on a VAXstation is
typically 18GB. Somewhat problematic.
I have 2 20G laptop SCSI drives...
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
Lack of determination.
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
Why did the early PeeCees wear 528 Megabyte drives as their largest
drives? (This despite the fact that to use it, the early operating
systems would also be size confused.) The BIOS the computers wear was
problematic.
In this case Cory is right, lack of determination. Plus other things.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/11/2013 02:13 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well
in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
Which is great, but again you run in to the snag that I've never seen a
SATA disk smaller than 40GB and the upper size limit on a VAXstation is
typically 18GB. Somewhat problematic.
I have 2 20G laptop SCSI drives...
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
Lack of determination.
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 11 Oct 2013, at 20:59, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
On 11/10/2013 20:54, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
I'm easily confused
Yes it's his fault! I blame him entirely! ;)
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
On 11/10/2013 20:54, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/11/2013 02:13 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well
in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
Which is great, but again you run in to the snag that I've never seen a
SATA disk smaller than 40GB and the upper size limit on a VAXstation is
typically 18GB. Somewhat problematic.
I have 2 20G laptop SCSI drives...
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
I'm easily confused...
--
http://www.wickensonline.co.ukhttp://hecnet.euhttp://declegacy.org.ukhttp://retrochallenge.nethttps://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/11/2013 02:13 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well
in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
Which is great, but again you run in to the snag that I've never seen a
SATA disk smaller than 40GB and the upper size limit on a VAXstation is
typically 18GB. Somewhat problematic.
I have 2 20G laptop SCSI drives...
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
Lack of determination.
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 10/11/2013 02:13 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well
in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
Which is great, but again you run in to the snag that I've never seen a
SATA disk smaller than 40GB and the upper size limit on a VAXstation is
typically 18GB. Somewhat problematic.
WHY does this keep coming up? There is no such limitation!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA