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Qué hacer con un colinabo - receta polaca

Unos amigos se encontraron con un colinabo recientemente y pidieron ideas sobre qué hacer con ello. Me resultó gracioso, porque la primera vez que vi un colinabo (estando ya en Polonia) me pareció también muy extraño (imagina que te encuentras en el campo algo así pero pintado con spray metálico: yo me mantendría alejado!)

Stopping OS X's from storing locally IMAP messages

TL;DR: Mail.app wants you to download your messages even if you change manually the account .plist. Forget about it. I wanted to stop Mail.app in OS X 10.10 Yosemite from caching locally my IMAP messages. Once upon a time there was right there in Mail.app an option to do just that, but for the last couple of OS versions the only option shown there is whether to download the attachments or not.

Using OS X’s syslogd to receive log messages from the network

TL;DR: avoid this buggy mess and go with macports & syslog-ng. You'll finish faster and saner. [Updated 2 times] This sounds like should be easy, but OS X is a moving target because of all the infrastructure changes they have been making for the last few OS releases. Yes, there is a syslogd, but it is some half-hollowed out thing and “others” do most of the work. Syslogd does NOT open an UDP socket, launchd does and feeds it to syslogd. Syslogd does NOT (really) receive the UDP packets, a plugin does it. Syslog does NOT parse the UDP message, ASL (Apple System Log?) does. Syslogd does NOT filter the messages and store them into “logs”, ASL does. So why there is a syslogd at all, apart from giving a slight sense of false security? (As in, “c’mon, there’s syslog, can’t be too difficult”). No idea. If I had seen how complicated this was going to get I would have bailed out and used syslog-ng from macports. Anyway. So the first step is to enable UDP reception. The manpage f