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  1. Store as local maildir. on Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? · · Score: 2

    `OfflineImap` (for fetching into a local maildir), then `mu` for indexing and searching.

    As for converting your already-archived mail into maildir format, that's a little more tricky. Once they're in maildir format, you can just use `tar` to compress the ones you don't currently need to access.

  2. Re:They should have concentrated on desktop on Ubuntu Phones Now Available Worldwide (On Some Networks) · · Score: 2

    QML is just a layout description language, sort of like a much better implementation of Android's layouts. It has a tiny bit of smarts, so you can write simple applications just in QML, but the general way it's used is that C++ code loads the QML layout, then selects and manipulates widgets within the layout (again, like a much saner reimplementation of Android's UI approach).

  3. Re:One good thing about Windows 10 default setting on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Take a look at duplicity -- it's what I use for backups. It's built on top of rsync, but with a lot more intelligence layered on top. It supports full and differential backups (with a sane default strategy), and can place backups in many places (another directory, another machine via ssh, another machine via rsync, ftp, Amazon S3, etc.).

  4. Re:Spam stems from lack of negative feedback on A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email · · Score: 1

    I suspect that most SMTP servers already implement rate-limiting for everyone, everywhere.

    The GP's objection was that you are vastly underestimating the number of nodes that a spammer can connect to. When he has a million upstream SMTP servers, it doesn't matter if he's rate-limited to one email an hour by each of them; he's still sending a million emails an hour.

  5. Re:What bug? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    The bug is not in LaTeX, but in MathJax, an HTML/Javascript reimplementation of the TeX mathematical markup for use on the web.

  6. Re:London Luton camera on Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's pretty devious/clever. The lights don't do anything except get you to look at the camera.

  7. Re:your opinion is worthless on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 1

    You are misunderstanding the author's point, which is (roughly): "If there were a rock out in space with the same albedo as Earth (with atmosphere), it would be colder than Earth." That is all they are saying.

    You are correct in that if they were interested in the temperature of Earth without atmosphere, then the provided albedo would be wrong. However, that's not what they're interested in. They are only trying to show that a purely albedo/black-body model is insufficient.

  8. Re:People? on GCC 5.1 Released · · Score: 2

    GNAT Pro Ada is just a professionally supported version of the GCC Ada implementation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    (See the Versions section)

  9. Re:Windows doesn't stop it on Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors · · Score: 2

    Cygwin is explicity not a Linux emulator. It's a POSIX compatibility layer --- a posix-compatible shell, GNU coreutils, and a dll that implements the POSIX C interface.

  10. Re:Just like C then? on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    Every object in Java is a nullable reference type: Object o = null; There, I nulled it.

  11. Re:Oe noes! A compiler bug! on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    That's because that program is expressly permitted by both the C and C++ standards, and unreachable code is any many cases not indicative of a bug (especially in C++).

  12. Re:Now wait on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Charles de Gaulle, or Asterix?

  13. Re:Where does all the money go? on Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access · · Score: 1

    Academic journal editors are professors themselves, just like the reviewers.

  14. Re:inaccurate summary on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Why do you say that showing the test statistics is a bad thing? Looking at the confidence intervals tells you immediately whether the null hypothesis was accepted or rejected, and gives you a (fuzzy) idea of by how much.

  15. Weigh it on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 1

    Give each student a poker chip, and have them write their name on it. When it comes time to vote, have each student place their chip in a pile for yes, no, or abstention. Weight each pile, and you will know how many people voted for each.