thomas kho’s blog

Since I abandoned Fastmail for Gmail’s intuitive keyboard shortcuts and conversation views a couple of months ago, I’ve been putting off the task of backing up the old account. I ran across offlineimap today, which has simple configuration and seems to be doing a good job of syncing about 500mb of email.

Update 12/9/2006: I found an even better way to get IMAP backups with the aptly named imapbackup.py script.

Computers, General, Linux imap

I was trying out the sample ptrace‘ing code from this article [Playing with ptrace, Part II] today and ended up wasting a bunch of time trying to figure out why the int80, int3 code injection example would fail with strace showing an EIO error. Then it hit me that I was trying to write over the sleep library function…great…

Computers, General, Linux, Software Development Linux