I have an Adaptec RAID 3805 controller with several SATA 7200rpm 1.5TB drives in RAID5. The volume is formatted with NTFS with default allocations, compression enabled under Windows 7 Professional x64. When I copied a 10GB file from my Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.7 via "cp -av" to the smb share, this is the graph that resulted. Can anyone explain why? There was no other load on the system or network, which is gigabit:

I had a small problem just now. In trying to convert email from Outlook 2011 on the Mac to mbox format, I used the brilliant eml2mbox Ruby script on the directory of files I created by dragging and dropping all email to the Finder, to convert them from eml format to mbox. I did this otherwise MailSteward imports them with a billion different mailbox names, as it uses the subject line as the mailbox.

I had several emails however that were sent from the iPhone, and their headers were wrong. Look at an example:

waldo@waldopcm fixed $ head Zipped.eml
From: Waldo Nell
    <IMCEAEX-_O=FHB_OU=FIRST+20ADMINISTRATIVE+20GROUP_CN=RECIPIENTS_CN=hhh@xxx.xx>
To: Some One
    <IMCEAEX-_O=FHB_OU=FIRST+20ADMINISTRATIVE+20GROUP_CN=RECIPIENTS_CN=RRRR@ddd.yy>
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:44:58 -0600
Subject: Zipped
Thread-Topic: Zipped
Thread-Index: AclP5lEwDZMQ7G1VMUiyvRhJDoqWmw==
Message-ID: <A552D92C.2D3%hhh@xxx.xx>
...

As I have mentioned in an earlier entry, I recently purchased a new Longines analog, mechanical watch to replace my ageing Seiko Actura Kinetic Auto Relay. The Seiko is a great watch, and I have had it since 2004 I think.

But I got tired due to the weight of it - it is a hefty 160g. Contrast this with the meagre 72g of the Longines:

I am weird, ok? Usually I do not like to gather stuff. I get irritated and get rid of things I do not use. However when it comes to things digital, I am the opposite. Especially with data. Not many people I know of still have ALL the email they have EVER sent / received. I do. Except for my university email account (which was under Novell Netware), I still have all email ever sent and received. Well, ok - exclude free email accounts which I used from time to time to accomplish some devious goal or another. So I recently purchased MailSteward Pro and imported everything I have on me - all my emails since 1997-06-10:

From 1997-06-10 thru 2011-04-03
Total Number of emails in date range: 193,685
Number of emails with attachments:    35,086
Number of emails with tags:           0
Number of mailboxes:                  259
By Year: 
1997:  128
1998:  1,229 
1999:  1,423 
2000:  1,259 
2001:  5,117 
2002:  5,202 
2003:  6,867 
2004:  13,550 
2005:  19,573 
2006:  26,200 
2007:  25,455 
2008:  22,982 
2009:  17,770 
2010:  37,089 
2011:  9,841

Impressive? I am one of the few people to receive fewer emails as time goes on, except for some blunder in 2010. Seems like I was doing something right.

I have developed an application in JBoss Seam 2.2.1.Final using RichFaces 3.3.3.Final. Some parts of the code make heavy use of a4j calls, i.e. Ajax calls. This works very well under most browsers. Unfortunately when IE9 was released two weeks ago, it refused to work with my application. I would click on certain links and nothing would happen. Or I'd get blank pages back.

Eventually I traced the issue to a known bug in the Sarissa.js file that is used by RichFaces for XML and DOM parsing. This file in RichFaces 3.3.3.Final is not compatible with IE9.

A couple of changes to the file made it work for me on my site however. The attached file can be used in your project and just reference it so that it overrides the built in one.