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Download your Gmail email using fetchmail

Haris Andrianakis — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:17:49 +0000

More and more people switch to Gmail every day. According to the latest stats Gmail has grown to be the fourth most used webmail application in only four years. Gmail offers a great service and a simple and powerful user interface. Still, some people (like me) prefer to keep a copy of their email locally [...]

Compressing a VMWare image file

Haris Andrianakis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:10:50 +0000

Recently I had to create a vmware image with Debian GNU/Linux that had to be as small as possible because people would have to download it. I started installing Debian “sid” by using debootstrap according to the following instructions: Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System. When I completed the installation and after I removed [...]

Debian package list backup & restore

Haris Andrianakis — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:43:19 +0000

Update: Debian Lenny 5.0 now has support for the option autoremove of apt-get that is able to clean all unused dependencies. Curiosity and laziness are the two most important reasons that my system ends up with lots of useless software after a couple months of usage. Many times I want to test drive a program [...]

Debian minimal installation for desktop use

Haris Andrianakis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:49:16 +0000

Note: This post was written back when I used to have a Debian GNU/Linux machine as my desktop computer. The Debian version at that time was etch 4.0. Nowadays I have a new shiny MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Leopard that I use as my main work machine so some of the information in [...]