the ultimate resource for all things Pine, Alpine (Pine 5.0) a console mail application

I am using Alpine, which is Pine 5.0, a mail application for composing and receiving messages.  Pine was one of the first terminal applications I begun to enjoy using when moving into the Linux game.  Now, 11 years later, I am at it again.

I am a little rusty and needed a quick catch up session, when I found this site that did the trick: 

ALL ABOUT PINE^®:
POP, IMAP, 
NNTP, & ESMTP CLIENT
FOR UNIX, WINDOWS, & 
MAC OS X

Using this resource, I was able to track down a ruby application to convert eml (outlook style, exported: fastmail, and yahoo) message files.  For the time being I am going to stick with mbox and will probably move over to maildir once the mail starts flowing.  The program, eml2mbox, can be found here.

I have to admit right off the bat, all that is of any web, or desktop mail application can not compete with the endorphins I get from using this long time friend fo mine. 

here are a few aromatherapy blends to help you sleep or work until dawn

Young Living (YL) will be gone shortly from my displayed adds...

After my last post, I was not overly surprised to see YL adsense advertisements on my Blog.  I just added them as a competitive filter, so they should be gone shortly.  I want to stress that I have experienced some superb oils from them, but they should be click #10 instead of #1, in my opinion.

Young Living, the next SMC or sales marketing ring?

Have you ever seen the SMC commercial persuading you too join their ring and sell worthless trinkets only the lame would buy?  I find that it is a gimmick, much like the way Young Living Essential oils promote their products through third party distributors.

Like a broken wing off an SMC glass angel, the marketing techniques for YL make what I admit are good quality oils, but are provided like the angel, no class or pride.

The distributors home pages, blog posts, and advertisements consider YL oils god like with no substitutions available.  It is true that there are a lot of adulterated essential oils on the market, but there are even more health and herbal resources that in my opinion offer better quality oils, GCM tests provided with chemical compositions that you just can't compare to YL because they are not provided, and YL is of course oils of the gods - who can argue with the gods.

I have a couple Google Reader and news filters, and I am almost overcome by them.  For the first timers dabbing in aromatherapy, it must look like Young Living is all you can get.  In my opinion, I would rather buy two species from two distributors, experiment, learn, and decide for myself which would be the most therapeutic approach to my purchase dicission.

Most people in aromatherapy know and feel the same way, but then their will be those whom find my opinion dead wrong with hypnotic reasoning of one sole oil to cure and be all that there is.

So next time you are thinking about buying your lavender, sage, and myrr, do a little searching - not only for price, but look for quality, reputation, farming practices, and origin export laws of your essential oils.  So in other words, don't buy the bullshit. 

GoDaddy ends support for Fedora Core 2 & 4

I was waiting for this to happen.  Here is the e-mail I received for one of my domains:

Regarding your server........

Due to the security and development improvements to the Fedora System, we will be discontinuing support for the following Operating Systems as of March 15, 2008:

Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 4

We recommend that you upgrade the server as outlined below at your earliest convenience.

1. Log into your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, select "Dedicated/Virtual Dedicated Servers."
3. Select the server you want to upgrade.
4. Under Account Details select "Other Add-ons."
5. Select the operating system "Fedora Core 6."
6. Click "Continue," then "Save Changes."

Once the plan change completes, a server reprovision is necessary. Please note that by doing this; all data on the server will be erased. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you make a backup of your data before continuing.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns which you have in relation to this matter.

Thanks again for choosing GoDaddy.com servers.

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com

I gave them a ring and they assured me that the support is the only aspect being discontinued.  If you use one of these Fedora Core versions, you will still be able to maintain and support your system.  However, for the majority of users with a control panel, and itchy security experience, you may want to re-provision your server if you want automatic updates.