Where does OSX Mail store mail?
Try USERNAME/Library/Mail. Do a “get info” on the folder and check out the size. Leave it open, and then sync your email and then watch it grow!
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Joe Rogan Experience #1198 – Derren Brown
An interesting insight into psychology. Derren mentions that some people are more suggest-able than others and shares a funny story of how to get out of a sudden tricky situation by just saying something that is non-sensical to add confusion to the situation.
How to set a new default template in Open Office
The chances are that you’ll want to create new templates or even change the default template in Open Office Writer. To do this, open a document and create your ideal template. Then select File > Template > Save. Make sure that you select My Template in the Template Categories. Here is the trick. You need… Read More »
Joe Rogan Experience #1490 – Jimmy O Yang
Jimmy has quite a few interesting stories where he talks about his childhood, working as a used car salesman, collect tickets at the local comedy store and DJ’ing at a strip joint in his early days. He was in Crazy Rich Asian and has a new special coming out on Amazon Prime. The funniest story… Read More »
Joe Rogan Experience #1489 – Ronnie Coleman
Ronnie Coleman is an 8 times Mr Olympia, and a trained accountant but couldn’t get a job so joined the police force. He only entered the body building contest so he could get a free gym card. His whole spine is fused together due to various injuries.
Joe Rogan Experience #1480 – Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart talks about (amongst other things) his accident and how his outlook on life has changed. It is incredibly insightful and motivational, especially when he was in the same room with Jeff Bezos and just walked up to him to say hi.
Joe Rogan Experience #1474 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick
This episode motivated me to get my blood tested. I had a blood test in August 2019 and reviewed my levels of Vitamins B12, C, D, cholesterol etc and my iron was only 4 umol/L. Now it is 28 umol/L. The typical range is between 10-30 so I’m on the high side “suggesting iron overload”… Read More »
AWS User Data for installing Jira standalone automatically
Here is the script it used to install Jira in EC2. It is fairly self explanatory but essentially it: Creates a Jira home directory Downloads Jira Software standalone Extracts Jira Runs apt-get update Installs Java Starts Jira It also updates a log file to keep you up to date with what is going on because… Read More »
Installing Jira in AWS EC2 using Error Driven Installation
So you may have heard of test driven development but have you heard of Error Driven Installation? Let me give you an example. Here I will install Jira in AWS using errors to help guide me. Installing Jira After you have created your EC2 instance and ssh’d in, download Jira. wget https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-8.8.0.tar.gz Then extract it via… Read More »
Java and Homebrew on OSX
To get Java on a Mac, the basic command to run is > brew cask install adoptopenjdk This will install the latest “brew” version at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-xx.jdk For me, it was version 14. To uninstall it, just change install to “un”install. To install a specific version of Java, run: > brew cask install adoptopenjdk8 You… Read More »