2005-02-14 Software

I saw an Steve Roy's Address Book Importer... I think this will help me move my BBDB into my iBook. Well, I decided to give bbdb-vcard-export a look, and fiddled with it (one of the things I found out after some trial and errors was that the Mac Addressbook wants UTF-16). For hours. The import just kept crashing on one of the files. Terrible. And with the keyboard problems (arrow keys sometimes not working, home/end/pgup/pgdown sometimes not working, or backspace sometimes not working, using the shell and mc has turned into boring crappy repetetive work. This is no fun.

Steve Roy's Address Book Importer

BBDB

I also found out how to use ssh-agent on OSX. I chose to install the separate SSH Agent tool because the docs mentioned that you could set the CVS_RSH variable in preferences, while the first page explained how to define global variables using XML files... Yuck!

use ssh-agent on OSX

SSH Agent

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