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I updated to OSX 10.4.4 on Sunday and now my IMAP accounts to some servers are broken. Accounts on Dovecot and Courier servers appear to be working but any U of Washington IMAP servers now have their namespaces hosed. I get a list of all of the files in my home directory instead of mail folders under ~/mail/. I have tried repeatedly to delete the accounts and reset with various settings for IMAP Prefix but nothing seems to fix the issue.

All of the affected accounts have been working fine for months. But not after the 10.4.4 update.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

UPDATE
I have set my configuration and additional bundles in Mail.app at least four times today. Sometimes it dies unexpectedly and upon restart much of the settings are reverted to default. My accounts remain but the preferences are reset.

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Newer versions of the system ps command can give the following error while running SIM or SPRI.

Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ

To fix make the following changes.

SIM:
Change /usr/local/sim/sim:

To:

Removed the '-' in front of auxww. This occurs on or about line #143 in SIM 2.5-3.

SPRI:
Change /usr/local/spri/spri:

To:

Removed the '-' in front of auxww. This occurs on or about line #56 in SPRI 0.5.

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My parents have had an antiques store for the past 27 years. They have had the same phone service with SWBell that they originally started with. The (phone) service was fine. They promptly fix any issues. It was cheap enough. No worries right?

SWBell decides to go on a signup drive, so a sales person calls to explain that unless they choose a yearly contract with SWBell, the rates are going to go up… drastically.

Come on, I understand trying to get commitments out of people so they’ll stop jumping around to the latest free offer. But why mess with a long term customer that hasn’t even thought about switching? Use some common sense business bean counter.

The day SWB called was the day they started looking for new phone service. Lost a customer after 27 years over a few extra dollars.

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1.5 million rows in a products_categories table. That’s 1,500,000 products to categories relations. I needed a quick way to remove products from multiple categories to test the performance hit of the HUGE products_categories table. A quick and dirty is to remove duplicate productids from the table. Here’s a quick howto.

Create a temporary table with only one row for each productid (the GROUP BY clause). Change this GROUP BY to be the field with duplicates to remove. You can also add some logic here to select which records to keep.

Empty the original table (you created a backup already right?).

Copy the ‘clean’ records back to the original table.

This can be used to normalize a table to add a primary key, data mining, cleaning a database or just for testing.

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DLoads v0.70 Final is released.

Changelog:

Download: DLoads v0.7 Final
Full DLoads Pepper infomation: DLoads Pepper

DLoads versions greater than the last release (v0.5) will only work with Mint v1.2 or greater.

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Standalone services and xinetd services:

Xinetd only:

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