Wed, 09 Apr 2008

Bart PE, DriveImageXML; hypermail, namazu

I don't seem to leave a lot of traces recently - electronic, computer-related traces I mean. Nothing worth blosxoming about ... Instead I've become rather active again in my "entries" blog.

I managed, after a couple of false starts, to burn a functioning Bart PE bootable CD with DriveImageXML, a nice piece of software for making backups of Windows XP computers, browsing the files included in the backup (!) and, obviously, restoring data.

Another nice application is hypermail, which converts e-mails stored in the mailbox format to HTML pages. It creates several index pages so you can sort e-mail messages according to date, author, thread etc. It's a great tool for archiving e-mails in a format which is easy to use - opening HTML pages in a browser is so much more convenient than importing old mailbox files with an e-mail client. I finally got round to archiving all the old e-mails still stored on my old laptop and, inspired by an article in the c't computer magazine, created a namazu search index for them.

Posted on 09 Apr 2008 at 17:00 in /technology. -- Permalink