Changing userid on Mac OSX
By jeltsch on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 22:501. Change the userid in NetInfoManager from another administrative account (ex. 502->1000).
2. Change the file permissions:
sudo find / -xdev -user 502 -print -exec chown 1000 {} \;
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
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How to convert EMF files into SVG format
By jeltsch on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 22:49The need for this appeared because the Unicorn software that controls our Äkta Explorer can only export the raw chromatographic curves in EMF format. Pathetic. After trying out various things, I went with OpenOffice. OpenOffice Draw can import EMF files and save as SVG. Other applications capable of opening EMF are FreeHand and CorelDraw (tested on Macintosh). However, FreeHand cannot export as SVG.
Importing email from Kontact to Apple's Mail App
By jeltsch on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 22:481. If you store your email in Kontact as mbox files just straightforwardly import them into Apple's Mail application.
2. If you store your email as mailbox folders, the procedure is a bit more complicated. - in each mail folder to be imported run the script converting mailbox into mbox (the script doesn't support nested folders so one has to run it for each folder separately, spaces are not allowed for the script to work) - import mbox into Mail TBC...