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+Elsewhere on Wired:
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+*	Ryan Singel of 27B Stroke 6 [wants your help][1] figuring out some new government documents. The docs outline a system that sounds like MySpace meets Tron. Singel writes: "From what little I've read it sounds like it's supposed to discover terrorists plots in real time and create social network graphics to find leads for investigators by translating news and blog stories into structured information in real time and by monitoring who is communicating with whom in real time... the system is supposed to be able to handle one billion structured and one million unstructured text messages per hour." Creeped out yet?
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/help_27b_with_m.html "Help 27B With Massive Gov Data Mining Project"
+
+*	Listening Post [reports on the very silly lawsuit][2] brought by Ric Silver, who owns the-electricslidedance.com and registered the dance with the U.S. Copyright Office using a video of himself teaching the dance in 1976. Silver has slapped Kyle Machulis with a DMCA takedown notice for video he posted on YouTube which shows some people doing the electric slide. Oh the humanity.
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+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/certain_dances_.html "Certain Dances Copyrighted?"
+
+*	Bodyhack wins headline of the day for: "[Honey, Did You Order a Human Head?][3]" Apparently DHL mis-delivered some body parts shipped from China. Ludivine Larmande thought she was getting a new table and instead unwrapped a head. "My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver. He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear." But wait it gets better, authorities believe "28 more bubble-wrapped human organs and body parts could be dispersed across the country." Check your mail early and often.
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+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/03/honey_did_you_o.html "Honey, Did You Order a Human Head?"
+
+*	Pete Mortensen over at Cult of Mac [reports that Apple is holding an event Sunday, April 15][4] during the National Association of Broadcasters. Could be the release of Mac OS X Leopard to me, but personally I think it has something to do with AppleTV, it is the NAB after all.
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+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/03/apple_schedules.html "Apple Schedules April 15 Event. Expect Products."
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+Our friend Reid sent us a handy tip for speeding up Apple's mail.app over the weekend. The trick is the force optimize the SQLite database that Mail uses to reference messages and metadata. 
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+As with any database, Mail's reference tables can get bloated over time, but this line of code will slim things down. Quit Mail.app and then open up the Terminal and enter this line (be sure to back up your ~/Library/Mail folder before proceeding):
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+	sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
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+Assuming you haven't moved your Mail data from the default location, that line should optimize Mail's SQLite data and possibly speed things up a but.
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+The SQL [docs for the vacuum command][1] say:
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+>The VACUUM command cleans the main database by copying its contents to a temporary database file and reloading the original database file from the copy. This eliminates free pages, aligns table data to be contiguous, and otherwise cleans up the database file structure.
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+I can't say how safe this is, neither of us had any problems, but YMMV. Remember to quit Mail.app first and back up your ~/Library/Mail folder before running the command just to be on the safe side. 
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+If you'd like to find out just how much space you're saving run this command, which will output your index file size in megabytes, before and after the optimization command:
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+	ls -lh ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
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+That .
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+Many thanks to Reid.
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+[1]: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html "SQLite Docs: Vacuum"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:
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+*	Mozilla's Songbird Media Player [has been updated][1], bring the fledglingly player to version 0.2.5. Note that if you're an existing Windows user the automatic software update does not work. You must manually download and install Songbird 0.2.5.
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+[1]: http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1396 "Songbird 0.2.5 Final (2007.03.01)"
+
+*	Speaking of software updates, Wine, the popular Windows emulator for Unix received a [minor update recently][2]. The update is primarily a bug fix release and reportedly addresses some Direct3D issues.
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+[2]: http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.32 "release 0.9.32 of Wine"
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+*	Windows Vista [has offically been cracked][3]. A pirate group by the name of Pantheon has released a true crack that uses Vista's own activation program unlike previous hacks which relied on beta activation files or timestop cracks. It might not be what Microsoft had in mind, but it could speed the adoption of Vista.
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+[3]: http://apcmag.com/5512/pirate_crack_vista_oem_activation "It's official: Pirates crack Vista at last"
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+*	The RIAA has been [sending out letters][5] to college students accusing them of infringing copyright and offering to settle if they identify themselves and confess. The main batch of letters was aimed at Marshal University which was recently brought into the spotlight by the film *We Are Marshall*, making it a high profile target for the publicity hungry RIAA. [[via The Consumerist][4]]
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+[4]: http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/the-riaa-p2plawsuit-letter-sent-to-college-students-241054.php "The RIAA P2PLawsuit Letter Sent To College Students"
+[5]: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070302/NEWS01/703020385/1005/NEWS10 "Marshall students could owe hundreds of thousands in RIAA suit"
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