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WirelessDriver fixed for Jaguar

11:57 AM: You might have noticed that the open source WirelessDriver for Orinico and other PRISM-based WiFi cards doesn't work under Mac OS X 10.2.

A little digging found this workaround, which I applied to Cheryl's "new" Wallstreet + WaveLAN Silver yesterday when I installed Jaguar on it.

Cheryl's computer doesn't have the DevTools installed, so I chose the 2nd option. Piece 'o cake. Reboot, and you're up and running.

3:28 PM: Rob releases WirelessDriver beta 5 built for Jaguar.

Jaguar’s Mail.app a small step backwards

I was very happy with my mail setup in MacOS X 10.1.5. I set up SpamAssassin, had a script that would POP my mail to a local mailbox in /var/mail, and had Mail.app configured with a "UNIX Account" to check mail from that local mailbox.

It was working great.

Unfortunately, Mail 1.2 doesn't support UNIX Accounts at all! When I launched Mail, my UNIX Account was gone. To make things worse, my POP script had read hundreds of messages from the server to the local mailbox, which I couldn't fetch into Mail anymore.

After a few minutes thinking about installing popd or imapd on my machine, I realized that Mail can import standard mbox files! So I just chose File > Import Mailboxes..., selected the /var/mail folder, and imported. My mail was now in the On My Mac > Import > jim folder. All I had to do was Select All, then choose Message > Apply Rules to Selection, and my new incoming mail was filtered to the right place... except for 4 messages that belonged in the Inbox. In Mac OS X 10.1.5, you couldn't move messages into an Inbox mailbox, only out of. Thankfully, that's no longer the case.

So, it took a bit of thinking, and a bit of cursing, but I got my mail where it belonged without losing any.

Unfortunately, the Junk Mail filter in Mail.app is not as smart as SpamAssassin was, out of the box. I would have preferred to continue using SpamAssassin, whose configuration I had full control over, than Mail's filters, which I can't configure, from what I can tell so far.

The best new feature in Mail.app is being able to search across all mailboxes. Finally!!

RAM ok during Jaguar install

I installed Jaguar on my 2*512MB Pismo. It installed without incident. I got my RAM from TransIntl. Perhaps the people who had problems had out-of-spec RAM.

BTW, Jaguar rocks.